Nokia May Rejoin Smartphone Market With Android Devices, Tip Job Listings

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By Ketan Pratap | Updated: 1 August 2014 18:14 IST
When Nokia completed the sale of its mobile business to Microsoft earlier this year, the acquisition meant that the Finnish giant would not manufacture mobile phones for a while, and concentrate on its telecommunications and services business in the interim.

However, if newly-spotted job listings on LinkedIn are to be believed, then Nokia is hiring engineers, designers and camera specialists for upcoming devices.

PhoneArena, citing a Russian publication, notes that out of the posted LinkedIn job listings, few have already closed - indicating that the Finnish company found the fitting professionals. The report claims that one of the job openings at LinkedIn for a photography engineer says that the company is in search of "a mobile photography engineer with experience writing camera drivers for Android."

The spotted requirement kicks-off a new debate about whether Nokia is considering coming back to the phone business, and that too with an Android running device.

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Lastly, the report suggested that the hiring process is being carried out by team that designed the recently released Nokia Z Launcher, which is compatible with smartphones running Android 4.1 or higher. What do you think about the possible re-entry by Nokia into the smartphone, specifically Android smartphone market? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Microsoft announced the biggest job cuts in its 39-year old history - with some 18,000 jobs being axed, of which 12,500 were from the Nokia acquisition.

The Redmond giant further dumped its Android experiment and also announced that the Nokia X series of phones would be making the transition to Windows Phone as Lumia devices. For those unaware, Microsoft's Nokia had first announced the X series of phones running a heavily customised version of Android at MWC this year.

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Recently, Nokia Corporation reported higher profits and earnings after the acquisition of its mobile business by Microsoft. The company announced that its Q2 profit rose 20 percent.

 

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