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by 37469920away 1007 days ago
What's even creepier is that parent company also owns Github.
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rgblambda 1007 days ago
Microsoft purchased Nokia's Devices & Services division, and rebranded it as Microsoft Mobile. Nokia then pivoted to telecommunications infrastructure and IoT. So there's no longer a relationship between the two companies.
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ianburrell 1007 days ago
Also, the Nokia smartphone brand is licensed to HMD Global.
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darkclouds 1007 days ago
Yeah someone at Microsoft thought they could get Windows CE to run on the popular Nokia 3210. /s
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seanp2k2 1007 days ago
ahh, the golden days when the smartphones that mattered ran Symbian and we thought Elop was going to be our Elon.
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harry8 1007 days ago
N900 ran linux and it mattered
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Yajirobe 1007 days ago
Microsoft?
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