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Comment by sirkneeland | Hacker News Reader

Nokia also designed the hardware and wrote the software for the N1, so i wouldn't call it a traditional brand licensing thing a la Kodak/Polaroid.

I should know, I was PM on it.

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The marketing and launch for the product was very weird if this is the case. Why was it emphasized that it's a brand licensing deal? I think being so loud about it certainly diminished the value of the product. If Nokia designed the product, hardware and software, how is it different from the typical model (Apple etc.)? Is it because the 'producing' and money for the product came from the Chinese? I.e. the Chinese took the investment risk.

It was emphasized as such to shareholders because they are rightly concerned that having just essentially exited the market for consumer electronics, the company should not go re-entering the market exactly as before. And so you have this arrangement with a manufacturing partner which greatly reduces the risks Nokia assumes in re-entering the consumer market.

I am glad to see Nokia still making strides in any/all areas they can, i love their phones, still do but dont own one for obvious reasons,

I still have my Lumia Icon (Windows platform) and it still out specs most smartphones. It was a solid phone, and I only switched back to Android because of the lack app support from Android and iOS developers.

With more developers starting to port their apps to the Windows platform, I'm considering going back to it.

Just as a comparison:

Display Pixel Density Lumia Icon: 441 Google Nexus 6 (new): 493

Camera Lumia Icon: 20MB Google Nexus 6 (new): 13MB

Processor: Lumia Icon: Quad core, 2200 MHz, Krait 400 Google Nexus 6 (new): Quad core, 2700 MHz, Krait 450

System Memory: Lumia Icon: 2048 MB RAM Google Nexus 6 (new): 3072 MB RAM

Keep in mind the Lumia was released in February 2014, The Nexus 6 was in November of 2015

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