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Microsoft Talo the headquarters of Microsoft Mobile.
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| Industry | Telecommunications equipment |
| Predecessor | Nokia Devices and Services division |
| Founded | April 25, 2014 Keilaniemi, Espoo, Finland |
| Headquarters | Espoo, Finland |
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Terry Myerson Head of Windows & Devices. Panos Panay Head of Engineering Juha Putkiranta Timo Toikkanen Chris Weber |
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Smartphones Mobile software |
| Brands | Lumia |
| Parent | Microsoft |
| Website | www |
Microsoft Mobile is a multinational mobile phone and mobile computing device manufacturing company that designs, develops, manufactures, and distributes mobile phones, smartphones, tablet computers, and related accessories and services. A wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft with headquarters in Espoo, Finland, Microsoft Mobile was established following the acquisition of Nokia's Devices and Services division by Microsoft, which was completed in April 2014.
Microsoft Mobile had had the right to sell mobile phones under the Nokia brand name, as part of a 10-year licensing agreement, as long as those phones were based on the S30+ platform, which comprised "feature phones". In October 2014, it was announced that future Lumia smartphones would carry the Microsoft name and logo instead of Nokia's. In mid-2016, Microsoft sold its feature phone business, and rights to use the Nokia brand until 2024, to HMD Global, keeping the Lumia business intact.
With the acquisition of Nokia's devices and services division, Microsoft re-entered the smartphone market. In Microsoft's previous attempt, Microsoft Kin, a result of the acquisition of Danger, Inc., had been poorly received.
In February 2011, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer jointly announced a major business partnership between the two companies, which would see Nokia adopt Windows Phone as the primary platform for its future smartphones, replacing both Symbian and MeeGo. The deal also included the use of Bing as the search engine on Nokia devices, and the integration of Nokia Maps into Microsoft's own mapping services. Nokia announced that it would still release one device running the MeeGo platform in 2011, but that it would devote fewer resources to future development of the platform, and would phase out Symbian entirely. Aligning with Microsoft had been considered a possibility by analysts, due to Elop's prior employment with the company.
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