HELSINKI (AP) – Nokia is back in the fray.
Just months after selling its ailing handsets unit to Microsoft, the Finnish company is planning to bring its brand back to consumers with a new tablet.
This time the device operates Android instead of the Windows software that Nokia adopted on its cellphones when it started a strategic partnership with Microsoft in 2011.
Sebastian Nystrom from Nokia’s technologies unit said Tuesday that the former global mobile phone leader was “pleased to bring the Nokia brand back into consumers’ hands.”
Using Android, he said, will give Nokia access to some 80 percent of the world’s mobile consumers compared with just the 2.5 percent who use the Windows mobile devices.