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Comment by amitbhawani | Hacker News Reader

Interesting especially Nokia adopting Android now.

Well, I think it's tough to tell whether it's Nokia adopting Android or the company that's licensing the Nokia name (a Chinese hardware manufacturer) that's adopting Android. I don't doubt they had sign-off on the Android aspect (and, hopefully, actual device quality) prior to lending their name to it, but it seems like, given their plan to license off the Nokia brand, their "adoption" of anything is kind of moot.

N1 is their product. They just use contract manufacturers just like Apple does. They are also hiring new people for tablet development.

Nokia only sold their phone manufacturing and design to Microsoft. Nokia is Nokia Networks, Mobile Broadband- and Global Services, Nokia HERE ja Nokia Technologies (previously Nokia Research). They also own the patents (just licensed to Microsoft)

Nokia has however been shopping its brand around to third parties looking to slap the Nokia label onto their own designs.

> They just use contract manufacturers just like Apple does.

They do more than that; they have outsourced also the business execution (i.e. including selling, warranties, etc.) of the device to Foxconn. They just share in the revenue by licencing the use of their brand and design (and software).

I'm not so sure. It's clear to me MS want Windows phone to look like a premium product all of its own merit and not just anything with a Nokia badge on it. Even the cheaper phones are targeted to be more top end for developing markets. Nokia must be a massive thing to have acquired solely to crank out windows phones.

Do MS still go hunting for patent money from android manufactures? So they can potentially undercut everyone in the android game now right?

if they do then that sucks, Nokia has a LOT of industry patents, including a few on bluetooth.

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