Nokia, which is now an HMD Global brand, is joining forces with Google to make phones that are surprisingly similar to Nexus. After its long-awaited comeback last year, the Finland-based smartphone producer plans to regain its "most trusted" brand title it enjoyed in the past. It announces that it's going to implement strategies that would bring it to the top of the smartphone market which it enjoyed previously.
It plans to do this by collaborating with Google to assist its goal in making a high-quality smartphone which runs on "pure Android". The company said during its press event at MWC that its latest Android phones will run a clean version of Android. It identified the about to be launched Nokia 6, Nokia 5, and Nokia 3 the first recipients of its pure Android strategy.
According to BGR, Nokia and Google are hopeful that even if they are not fully capable of pure android systems, they can it to be as close to vanilla Android as possible. This is the kind of Android OS some fans crave to have on their devices, and now, Nokia will cater it with the help of one of the biggest OS makers. Furthermore, the company revealed that it plans to issue swift updates to Android, which is a feat that no other smartphone manufacturer can brag with.
According to India Today, the partnership of the two tech giants yields opportunities for Nokia to pick and include a few features from the now dead Nexus. It wants to resurrect these features on its upcoming Nokia Android smartphones. This probably means that the Nokia 3, Nokia 5 and Nokia 3310 in 2017 are going to come with several features that are similar to Nexus devices.
Nokia's decision to collaborate with Google is a strong indicator that it wants to further strengthen and increase its market share by the upcoming year. The upcoming Nokia Android smartphones are reportedly supposed to hit the global market by the end April or early May. There have been no details on the launch date by the HMD Global as of yet, but Nokia seems to be gearing aggressively for the launch.
