By Rohit Mathew Binu
Nokia the mobile handset company which has engraved in its
timeline a glorious history for the past thirty years is finally waving
goodbye. Nokia handsets which had a lion’s share in the mobile market in the
past decade had witnessed a declining trend in its popularity. Beaten by its competitors
like Samsung and Apple and unable to cope with the Smartphone revolution , it was forced to hand over itself to Microsoft. Now that its acquisition is over Nokia
will now be known as Microsoft Mobiles and services for Nokia’s existing handsets
will be provided by Microsoft . It will also be gaining Nokia’s X , Asha and Lumia(Did you know Lumia actuallymeans hooker in Spanish ) series and thus attempting to own a share in the
blooming smartphone industry.
The Microsoft Lumia series will be Microsoft’s first venture
into the smartphone segment. Entry level smartphones like Nokia X and Asha which
have a crucial role to be play in developing countries like India will be
continued for the time being. It remains to be seen whether Microsoft will be
keen to promote its entry level smartphones.
With this step Microsoft attempts to merge Nokia’s long history
of good quality mobile headsets and the software prowess of Microsoft
to create a new line of Microsoft mobile headsets. But technicians estimate
that for this to happen we must wait for at least one more year. And for the
time being Microsoft will just be continuing Nokia’s current models. Microsoft
has attained rights over Nokia’s patents and more than 25,000 employees of
Nokia have become a part of the Microsoft family. Microsoft will also continue
to provide all the services and even accept the warranties provided by Nokia.
To sum it all, it means that the users will not even be slightly affected by
this change of ownership.
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