NOKIA TO RETURN ON SMARTPHONE INDUSTRY COMFIRMED FOR 2107

Nokia has officially announced its return to the smartphone industry, with the 2017 agenda stating "the return of the Nokia brand to smartphones"

Nokia is ready to make its big comeback to the smartphone segment in 2017. Even as rumors and leaks have hinted at the company launching a new line of
Android smartphones next year, Nokia just recently broke the silence as to Their intentions. Nokia at its 2016 Capital Markets Day event shared a slide that shows its agenda for 2017, which includes "the return of the Nokia brand to smartphones.

The non-compete clause of Nokia with Microsoft ends in 2017. The company is abandoning Microsoft's Windows operating system in favor of Google's Android operating system, which has the largest market share among smartphones.

Nokia is not going to manufacture smartphones itself, given that it no longer has the manufacturing facilities it made at its peak. It will only act as the owner of the trademark and its patents, while monitoring the development of new phones, which will be made by global HMD; A new company that was created earlier this year. HMD will be matching Nokia patents and brand with R & D and Foxconn manufacturing.

One of the first Nokia phones in 2017 could be the D1C. Nokia D1C has already been compared in Geekbench and Antutu. Antutu's benchmark shows that the phone will run on a Qualcomm 430 chipset along with an Adreno 505 GPU.

It will come with 3GB of RAM, 32GB of ROM, and will run on Android 7.0 Nougat. The phone is displaying a screen resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, comes with a 13MP main camera and an 8MP front handle.

Reports have suggested that Nokia may be releasing a second device in 2017, whose details are not available at this time.

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