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Nokia looking for partner in mobile phone production: report

Xinhua, June 19, 2015 Adjust font size:

Finnish technology company Nokia has for the first time confirmed that it plans to re-enter the mobile handset market, two years after the sale of its mobile device business to Microsoft.

In an interview with German magazine Manager, company CEO Rajeev Suri said that Nokia is looking for a suitable partner to re-enter the business.

The company's production of handsets under the brand of Nokia would begin at the earliest during the second half of 2016, according to an agreement with Microsoft.

Suri said Nokia would challenge Microsoft on the handset market in the same way as in the production of tablets. Nokia would handle the designing itself and would give a license to another company to handle production.

The Nokia brand tablets license was given to Foxconn, based in Taiwan, China.

Suri said German automakers like Audi, BMW and Daimler Benz have shown interest in obtaining the map service HERE. "Anyone who would be able to improve that business on a long term basis is a good buyer," he said. Endit