Microsoft !! Kills ASHA , Nokia X and Series 40 devices

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rish1

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We have more breaking news related to Microsoft, after earlier today the Redmond giant announced that it would cut 18,000 jobs “in the next year” out of which 12,500 from Nokia, and it would shift Nokia X product designs to become Windows Phone-based Lumias.

According to The Verge, which obtained an internal memo sent by Jo Harlow to employees, Microsoft will stop supporting and developing Nokia Asha and Nokia Series 40 devices over the next 18 months. The Nokia X line is included here as well.

The last Asha handset announced by Nokia is the Asha 230 - pictured on the left - which was released in February as “the most affordable touch device ever” (costing around $62).

"Whereas successful hardware was the goal at Nokia; delighting our customers with Microsoft platforms, services and applications through our hardware is our goal at Microsoft," reportedly said Harlow, who leads Microsoft’s phone business.

Freed from Nokia’s feature phones, Microsoft will try to lure customers to Windows Phone, as this is (and will be) available on handsets at all price ranges. Speaking of it, Jo Harlow mentioned that new high-end Windows Phone products will be announced “very soon.”

Microsoft also wants to get rid of Nokia MixRadio, and intends to sell it. Apparently, unnamed third parties are showing “strong interest” in MixRadio - which, in Nokia’s words, is “a radio station app that seems to always know the music you want to hear.”
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Microsoft kills off Nokia's Asha and Series 40, says new high-end Windows Phone handsets are coming soon

Please comeback Nokia in 2016 :( :(

****** ******* MICROSOFT :evil: :evil: :evil:
 
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rish1

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soon they'll Kill the cheapo durable basic phones like Nokia 105 etc... India will be the most impacted country
 
quicky008

quicky008

Technomancer
How disappointing! I've had a premonition for a while that something like this will happen in the not so distant future and this disquieting piece of info only confirmed my suspicions.This is what happens when iconic and trustworthy brands such as Nokia are gobbled up by greedy American corporations like Microsoft.


srkmish said:
Good riddance :)
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Why do you say so?
 
coderunknown

coderunknown

Retired Forum Mod
whats wrong with Asha series. they could have continued at sub 5k and Asha platform was really shaping well. at least better than lagging android with crappy specs. only -ve point was the tiny screen.
 
skeletor

skeletor

Chosen of the Omnissiah
Basically this means "RIP Feature Phones" from old school 'reputed' companies??

Samsung still makes Guru type phones?
 
SaiyanGoku

SaiyanGoku

kamehameha!!
Never liked the series 40 devices like my dead Nokia 6303c. Series 60 phones were much better.

Hoping firefox os phones to fill in the the feature phone segment.
 
sushovan

sushovan

In the zone
ico said:
Basically this means "RIP Feature Phones" from old school 'reputed' companies??

Samsung still makes Guru type phones?
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Nope, only Nokia makes feature phones now, and it has survived only because of those phones till now.
 
SaiyanGoku

SaiyanGoku

kamehameha!!
ico said:
Basically this means "RIP Feature Phones" from old school 'reputed' companies??

Samsung still makes Guru type phones?
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Some of them are still in Flipkart's stock like Samsung metro series & rex series, LG's cookie series phones

Good thing they killed Nokia X also.
 
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