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I wonder how many of the Ex. Nokia employees joined the HMD (The JV between Nokia and Foxconn) which would be making the new android powered smartphones. Btw, India was the last market in which Nokia had a decent grip before eventually loosing to Samsung & Micromax. Nokia still sells it's feature phones here & if it could make it's android phones affordable , then it has a good chance of making a come back at-least in India.



The list of competitors in Android is long. They would already be competing on cost, even more so in India. What would be the point of Nokia making hardware for Google's OS when there are already so many others at every market segment?


I've seen people from Kenya refer to their smartphones (of any manufacturer) as "my Nokia". So the brand seems to have some value still...




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