Nokia is making its brand name available for licensing of tech devices and other products except for handsets, including a tablet made by Foxconn. As for phone handsets, while Microsoft has just introduced a new handset without the Nokia name, Microsoft’s license to use the name runs through 2016.
“What we’re looking at here is not Nokia’s ‘return’ to the smartphone business…but simply a case of Nokia allowing another company to do all of the hard work and market their products using its brand,” notes the NokiaPowerUser blog. That’s what some of us call licensing!