Microsoft acquiring Nokia (Devices and Services Divisions)

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Perhaps Nokia X and ASHA devices may fade away eventually from MS website, or it will remain till MS can use Nokia brand.
 
Nokia is pretty much non existent..sucks how things ended for them my n73 phone was awesome at the time :\
 
Nokia CEO Reveals Plans to Re-Enter Mobile Phone Business

Nokia is indeed planning on returning to the mobile phones business in 2016, after its contract clause with Microsoft preventing it from using its brand name on handsets expires, Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri told the German language publication Manager Magazin. Suri told the publication that Nokia will simply design the phones and subsequently make its brand name available to be licensed.

It’s worth noting that Nokia has adopted a similar approach for its N1 tablet, which was launched in China earlier this year and later extended to Taiwan. Nokia is likely to license its brand name and industrial design for smartphones, similar to what it has done with the N1 tablet. The Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) partner it signs up with will also likely to be responsible for the distribution and sales of the smartphones. Nokia’s contract clause with Microsoft expires in Q4 2016.
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Nokia looking to re-enter mobile phone biz in 2016, confirms CEO Rajeev Suri - MediaNama

Nokia CEO Reveals Plans to Re-Enter Mobile Phone Business | NDTV Gadgets
 
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If MS acquired Nokia's mobile division and shut it down by 2016-17, and by same time Nokia again re-enters Smartphone mobile business, then I don't understand what was benefit of MS-Nokia deal, who really gained or lost in that deal.
 
Yes, patents could be reason. Nokia did had (has?) lots of mobile related patents which I guess were also sold to MS. Besides some good work like in Camera dept also gone to MS with deal.
 
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