Brewing deal with Alcatel-Lucent tells which direction is going to develop its business in designing and manufacturing equipment. United Nokia Corporation will have to press the competitors in the segment of equipment for wireless networks, the future mapping of Nokia's business in question, and only inventive Nokia Technologies division retains the status quo. Production of smartphones last year has been sold to Microsoft.
Meanwhile, the agreement with Microsoft prohibits releasing Nokia smartphones only until the second half of 2016, and ever use the brand Lumia and Asha. Once the terms of the ban will expire, according to the resource Re / code, Nokia has to be ready to get back into the smartphone market. Already, the relevant products are developed in the bowels of units Nokia Technologies. At the same time produce their own smartphones Nokia is no longer going to - the right will be provided on a reimbursable basis to one or more third parties.
The same sources say that Nokia is experimenting with virtual reality technology.