Sorry man, but this is also incorrect.
Microsoft bought the entire Nokia Handset and Devices division. This included all of the design, testing and manufacturing. This includes all of the factories and the workers of those factories. Microsoft, NOT Nokia will be designing, testing and manufacturing their devices.
I worked at MS during the time of this acquisition and integration of the former Nokia employees and their business.
WRONG. I am talking about NOKIA smartphones, NOT Microsoft smartphones, mate. And I'm talking about creating, not manufacturing.
Read again.
Nokia WILL be returning themselves to smartphones in 2016 and they will be the ones designing everything. Independently of Microsoft Mobile (which shouldn't last very long anyway) and totally independently from Windows Phone or Microsoft itself. In case you didn't get the memo, Nokia still exists, has a Technologies division with ALL their patents in it. Microsoft bought the manufacturing and distribution chain along with some engineers (many of which have, meanwhile, been fired and are actually back at Nokia).
Microsoft does NOT design Nokia phones. Because they're
not Nokia. Just like Jolla doesn't design Nokia phones.
The fact that Microsoft bought some ex-Nokia employees doesn't grant them the ability to produce Nokia phones. Unless Nokia themselves designs them from the ground up and all Microsoft does is manufacture them. Which won't happen because Microsoft will, sooner than later, ditch the hardware division altogether and the only phones out of Redmond will be reference devices like the Surface or the Microsoft Band.
Correct me if I'm wrong
DJCBS seems to be speaking of what Nokia will begin doing after their return to smartphone making in 2016
You are correct, that's what I was talking about.
They will begin in 2016 designing phones again, but who actually manufacture them isnt easy to determine as the Nokia CEO simply says they will look for suitable partners, but also hints that Microsoft makes mobile phones, and that they would simply design them and make the Nokia name available to license.... So will future Microsoft Lumia phones become Nokia Lumia again? Will Nokia start an all new Phone line with a different product name? IDK
Suri mentioned Microsoft making phones to illustrate the difference between creating phones and manufacturing them. Microsoft manufactures the phones they create (like LG and Samsung do). Nokia, like Apple and Sony for example, will only create the phones. Others will manufacture them on their behalf.
When he says Nokia will design and license them, that's because you need to license the manufacture of a product for another to produce it. Think of it as the model used in books. The author doesn't manufacture nor sell his own books. A publishing house does. The books don't become a work of the publisher because of that. They're still the author's creation. Same thing will apply (and has applied to the Nokia N1). Nokia creates the "book". An OEM partner - the "publisher" - published it.
Also, this now is PURE speculation because no one has gotten access to the terms of the deal, but the Nokia-LG deal that was signed a couple of weeks ago could very well be part of Nokia's return. LG is also a manufacturer. They'll be licensing mobile patents from Nokia.
It COULD be possible that among the terms of that licensing deal is that while Nokia provides LG with mobile patents for use in LG phones, LG will manufacture the phones for Nokia.
Again, this is JUST me speculating but it's a possible outcome.
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