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CEO behind new Nokia smartphones suddenly fired

article published on 20 July, 2017

HMD Global, a small Finnish company, became somewhat of a focal point of smartphone news in May last year as it bought the rights for famed Nokia brand. The company also made deals with the Nokia corp, that is still rocking the network business, for some mobile technology licenses. In December it released HMD released its first Nokia phone, the Nokia 150 dumb phone. In early 2017 it expanded ... [ read the full article ]

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hearme0
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20. July 2017 @ 13:37 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This company is a hot mess.

Shame too because Nokia made really quality, durable phones.

Had they simply competed, and actually brought out a flagship phone (kinda like that 1280 full camera model, whatever the model was way back when), then Nokia would be a major player now.

Stupid F'ing decision makers! BAD DECISION MAKERS!
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ddp
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20. July 2017 @ 23:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I worked on their cell phones back in 2000 while working at Celestica in Toronto.
kanaske
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21. July 2017 @ 12:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
who was the person who wrote this article and does not know English grammar?

ddp
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21. July 2017 @ 12:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
look at the line below the title & I think that person is finnish.
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mukhis
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22. July 2017 @ 07:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by kanaske:
who was the person who wrote this article and does not know English grammar?

calm down. knowing english grammar is desirable, but not critical in writing tech articles in blogs; specially, when its writers can hardly spend time on it. being a native english guy or not, people do mistakes, and IMHO, that's OK. however, i agree that too many mistakes give an unpleasant experience in reading.

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