But Nokia is not prevented from making and selling smartphones by 2016?
They can do whatever they want, but they canīt use Nokia branding on a mobile devices till 2016.
Here's a pic by Evleaks. Notice the left pic with Swipe UI standby screen.
NokiaPowerUser is claiming that Normandy is being made by a Nokia team that wont transfer to Microsoft. Unfortunately NPU is nowhere near as a solid source as Evleaks.
It would be kind of weird if they would not, thinking they have one the biggest hurdles, patents in better control than pretty much any other company dealing with wireless devices.
Main problem with that has just been that most of us think that knowhow will be directed towards accessories, internet of things or wearable tech, not mobile phones.I do believe that's the case still.
Even so it would not be hard to believe Nokia is thinkering about Android device under Nokia Research, that's not moving under MS.
