The end of Nokia phones

[GastonJ]

Microsoft has agreed a deal to buy Nokia's mobile phone business for 5.4bn euros ($7.2bn; ?4.6bn).
Nokia will also license its patents and mapping services to Microsoft. Nokia shares jumped 35% on the news, whereas Microsoft's fell more than 5%.
The purchase is set to be completed in early 2014, when about 32,000 Nokia employees will transfer to Microsoft.
Nokia has fallen behind rivals Samsung and Apple, while critics say Microsoft has been slow into the mobile market.
Describing the deal as a "big, bold step forward", Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer told the BBC that his company was in the process of transforming itself from one that "was known for software and PCs, to a company that focuses on devices and services".

BBC News - Microsoft to buy Nokia's mobile phone unit

MS will either kill 'em or cure 'em. I'm guessing they'll kill them and use the patents to sue any and every company that makes a usable phone for breach of copyright.... Let the patent wars begin *shrug*

[Meat-Head]

MS will either kill 'em or cure 'em. I'm guessing they'll kill them and use the patents to sue any and every company that makes a usable phone for breach of copyright.... Let the patent wars begin *shrug*

Well ANYTHING Emerican is idolised by the Germans, anything German is idolised by the Emericans. The Germans ALWYAS buy the rivals and shut it down, so therefore the Emericans will be shutting down the Nokio phone company, once they have stolen the ideas and research for them selves, like BMW wdid with Rover.

[zorba anton]

MS isn't "stealing" anything.
Nokia makes over 70% of all cell phones.
MS needs the "rights" to those phones.

And what is Emerican?

[Kalipo]

MS isn't "stealing" anything.
Nokia makes over 70% of all cell phones.
MS needs the "rights" to those phones.

And what is Emerican?

And emerican is someone who lives in a pineapple under the sea...! .. something like that??

Nokia arent as big as they used to be in the UK.. but in the universe they sell allot of thones to men on thrones???

[Canker_Canison]

Nokia stepped back from the smartphone race years ago. But they still produce handsets for the developing world who don't need smartphones.

They released symbian as freeware to try & revive the aging software, only to suck up to MS for release rights with windows 8.... which has gone down so well with phone users... NOT!