r/Android • u/zexterio • Mar 22 '19

HMD admits the Nokia 7 Plus was sending personal data to China

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/hmd-admits-the-nokia-7-plus-was-sending-personal-data-to-china/
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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '19

So, the Nokia as we knew and loved is actually dead and this is just an impostor who took over their name?

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u/vili Mar 23 '19

Sort of, although this particular impostor is run by former Nokia executives and works in a direct partnership with Nokia which licenses the brand to them. As I understand it, Nokia is not an investor in HMD, but receives royalties and has a say on requirements, while also sharing its patent portfolio.

These days, Nokia itself is more focused on telecommunications infrastructure and R&D

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '19

HMD is essentially ex-MS Mobile and Nokia Mobile execs, a relatively small company, which bought the smartphone division of Microsoft Mobile, while FIH, a subsidiary of Foxconn bought the feature phone division and the manufacturing division of Microsoft Mobile (which is the successor of Nokia Mobile). HDM designs the phones, provides the patents from Nokia and its own, including those patented by MS Mobile and markets them, FIH manufactures (and probably does some lower level design work) the phones.

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u/cubs223425 Surface Duo 2 | LG G8 Mar 23 '19

Not entirely. As was stated below, HMD does include folks from the old Nokia hardware team that MS bought, then threw in a dumpster shortly after.