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Nokia Is Once Again Producing And Selling Mobile Phones

Nokia Is Once Again Producing And Selling Mobile Phones

Rolling back the years.

Mark McGowan

Mark McGowan

Imagine: it's 2002 and you've just rattled off another high score on Snake on your Nokia 3310. You ring your mum to find out what time dinner is and text your dad asking if he's heard any decent jokes.

Now, fast forward nine years to 2011. Following a house fire, being shot in gang warfare, a dog pissing on it and some media groups attempting to hack it, that same phone is still switched on and hasn't been charged once.

This is everything we associate with Finnish brand Nokia. For all its downfalls with other devices and its inability to keep up with Samsungs and iPhones, we all still believe that the 3310 is still the best phone ever made.

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The tech company is now rolling back the years, unfortunately not as far back as the early 2000s, but it will be producing a new batch of phones to compete against other brands that have overtaken it since the turn of the century.

The company's website is showcasing some glaringly average looking handsets, but more advanced smartphones and tablets are believed to be added alongside them soon.

Helsinki based HMD Global has struck a deal with Nokia with the aim of shooting the company back up the global super power it once was in times gone by.

Previously Microsoft bought Nokia, but the Nokia Windows combination was kind of like what a Geordie Shore/TOWIE cross over would be like - a disastrous, infuriating nightmare.

Credit: Nokia

Now, after focusing on telecoms infrastructure, the brand has been licensed to HMD Global.

"It's declining roughly 15 percent a year, but it's still a very healthy business and it's global," chief executive Arto Nummela said.

The plan is produce Android phones that can compete with the likes of Apple and Samsung as early as next year. They'll be built by a company called Foxconn in China and Vietnam.

Featured image credit: Nokia

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Topics: phone, phones