In addition to smartphones, HMD will also make Nokia tablets

In addition to smartphones, the Finnish company HMD will also make tablets with the Nokia brand name. Nokia announced this now that the deal between the company and HMD has started. The first HMD phones and tablets are coming next year.

The license runs for ten years, say both companies. Not only the smartphones and tablets, but also the cheap mobile phones come under the responsibility of HMD Global. HMD has one page on Nokia’s website to showcase its products.

HMD has now also gathered its team. Of the said top people a vast majority comes from Nokia and Microsoft Mobile. The few who have no experience with the former Finnish market leader often come from competitors such as Motorola and HTC.

The first smartphones with the Nokia brand name on them that HMD is developing will appear in the first half of 2017. The tablets should follow soon. Nokia disappeared as a smartphone brand name in 2014, when the Finnish company switched to Lumia as a brand name after the acquisition. Nokia remained on the cheap mobile phones. Microsoft has sold the license to the Nokia brand name for mobile phones to HMD, the factory in Vietnam came into the hands of Foxconn.