Newkia: Nokia + Android, Thomas Zilliacus plan - The Android Free

knew a few days ago the news that Microsoft had bought Nokia’s mobile division, including all patents, so the idea that we might see a phone with Android Nokia completely vanished . But it may not be so forever, since a new Singapore-based company called Newkia is willing to do so.

Newkia

was founded by Thomas Zilliacus , who worked for 15 years at Nokia and was CEO in Asia and the Pacific from the Finnish company for 7 years. Today, the company leads Zilliacus Mobile FutureWorks and as he says, tried to buy Nokia for a year , but could not raise the necessary funds to get it.

now and after the announcement of the purchase of Microsoft, Zilliacus Newkia plans to create a Nokia phone running on Android and for this contract Nokia employees showing interest in Android development and will be added to former employees who are already with him. Ensures with Newkia intend to use the knowledge, technology and design that Nokia already know, but running Android inside.

Thomas said in an interview with ZDNet that during the period in which he worked in Nokia, the company squandered great opportunities to remain the leader by its dominant position in the market at that time, as the time that created a prototype similar to the first iPhone long before Apple, but dismissed it because they thought, wrongly, that the market not be interested in something.

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í, Newkia wants to launch its first phone within a year , whenever they get sufficient funding and to hire enough employees, whose R & D would be located in Finland , but would be based in Singapore and the devices would target the Asian market, but not rule out the marketing start listening to other countries. will have to wait to see what be created, but the combination of quality construction and materials with Android Nokia not look too bad.

Way | CNet