what occurred now? Telecoms big Nokia has introduced a rebranding of the corporate, altering its brand for the primary time in almost 60 years. The transfer is a part of a method to separate Nokia from smartphones, which it hasn’t accomplished in a couple of decade.
On the eve of the Cell World Congress in Barcelona, Nokia unveiled a brand new company brand made up of 5 totally different shapes that make up the corporate identify. The outdated and well-known blue lettering has been changed with quite a lot of colours that change relying on the appliance.
“It has been related to smartphones and is now a enterprise expertise firm,” CEO Pekka Lundmark informed Reuters.
Nokia hasn’t made a smartphone because the Nokia Lumia 1020 in 2013, a yr earlier than Microsoft acquired the cell phone enterprise. Microsoft bought its Nokia-branded characteristic telephone enterprise to his HMD International in 2016.
On account of a long-term licensing settlement between the 2 firms, cell phones bearing the Nokia identify manufactured by HMD International have been in the marketplace since 2017 and are nonetheless being launched immediately. The Nokia G22 telephone was unveiled yesterday, designed to be simply repaired, due to restore guides and instruments created with iFixit. It takes about 5 minutes to interchange the battery and about 20 minutes to interchange the display screen.
“Most individuals assume we’re nonetheless a profitable cell phone model, however that is not what Nokia is about,” Lundmark informed Bloomberg. The CEO mentioned Nokia desires to launch a brand new model targeted on networking and industrial digitization. That is “completely totally different from conventional cell phones.”
Nokia desires to extend its market share in terms of offering community tools to wi-fi service suppliers. This ought to be made simpler as Huawei is banned from promoting his 5G community tools to many nations. However Nokia’s important focus is on promoting tools to non-public firms, an space that accounted for 8% of his income final yr, or about €2 billion (about $2.11 billion). In response to Lundmark, Nokia’s purpose is to get this quantity into the double digits as quickly as potential.