Nokia would sell its branch "phones" to Microsoft

By dint of access to prototype phones before anyone else and publish proprietary information (he had announced early in the marriage between Nokia and Microsoft, the abandonment of the mark OVI, etc..), The Russian blogger Eldar Murtazin made his name. Then, when the same blogger that the Finnish giant slide is negotiating with his new best friend to sell its "phones", we take the information with caution, but interest.

According Murtazin, negotiations would lead to a sale before the end of the year. If it does occur, the split would leave Nokia slashed its trade history: the Finnish exist only in the form of Nokia Siemens Networks (procurement of infrastucture network) and NAVTEQ (mapping). One imagines, however, that Microsoft would retain the Nokia brand to market its phones.

In announcing the rally Nokia Phone to Windows, the Cassandras were predicting the end of Nokia. This rumor tends to prove them right.

• Nokia locks up OVI and opens Nokia services. (16/05/2011)
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• A Nokia Powered Bing Maps...shocking? Not so much (16/05/2011)
• Nokia's Ovi Maps to Replace Bing Maps, Insider Says (16/05/2011)
• Rumor: Microsoft to buy Nokia's handset unit, deal may close by the end of 2011 (16/05/2011)

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