HMD International has rebranded Nokia’s web site and social handles, indicating that the corporate will quickly enter the smartphone market. Though it will permit the Finnish firm to promote its merchandise, the event may pull the plug on Nokia smartphones.

Nokia’s official X (previously often known as Twitter) deal with, @nokiamobile, is now @HMDglobal, indicating the change within the firm’s course. Additional, the official Nokia web site now redirects customers to HMD’s web site, one other signal that the corporate desires to ascertain its model as an alternative of promoting Nokia-branded smartphones.

The assertion revealed on the official HDM International web site reads, “We’re nonetheless makers of Nokia smartphones.” Nevertheless, the assertion provides that the corporate is getting warmed as much as carry customers much more, together with HMD’s authentic units and telephones from all-new partnerships.

For these catching up, HMD International got here into existence in 2016. It bought the rights to Nokia smartphones from Microsoft. In 2017, the corporate launched Nokia 6. Nevertheless, again in September 2023, the corporate’s CEO introduced the plans to launch a brand new, “authentic HMD model.”

Jean-Francois Baril, the CEO, talked about that he desires to ship high-quality, reasonably priced cell units to shoppers. Nonetheless, we don’t have a launch date but.

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