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DiebugNokia hasn’t made a phone in over a decade, and it’s still making billions from every one sold
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Nokia hasn’t made a phone in over a decade, and it’s still making billions from every one sold Image Credit: Thomas Kohler/Flickr By Rob LeFebvre Published Aug 18, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT Rob LeFebvre is an editor and writer focusing on consumer and enterprise technologies for a broad range of outlets. He’s been writing online for more than 15 years; before that he was a special educator for kids with severe disabilities. Rob has been an Editorial Director at Lifewire, a news writer at Engadget, and a senior contributor at Cult of Mac. He’s written about PCs, Macs, mobile phones, and games, created newsrooms from the ground up, and has extensive experience reviewing hardware, software, and games across his career. Sign in to your MakeUseOf account Add Us Add on Google Preferred Source Google News Like Like follow Follow followed Followed Thread Log in Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents: Try something different: Show me the facts Explain it like I’m 5 Give me a lighthearted recap Nokia sold most of its Devices and Services business to Microsoft back in 2014 for $7.2 billion., but it still profits from the Nokia brand on phones it hasn’t built, plus it gets a check from nearly every smartphone maker on Earth, Apple included, through patents that it filed pre-iPhone. For the former, HMD Global makes the phones that are branded as Nokia, while Nokia Technologies collects royalties from patent licensing. ## Nokia’s exit from hardware ### How the sale to Microsoft ended Nokia’s run as a phone maker No attribution is required; sourced from Pexels. URL: https://www.pexels.com/photo/retro-cellphone-with-buttons-placed-on-table-4224099/ Microsoft’s purchase of Nokia’s Devices and Services unit broke down to about $4.4 billion, while a patent license came in at around $1.9 billion, according to reporting by NBC News at the time. The deal included the transfer of about 32,000 Nokia employees to Microsoft, as well. Unfortunately, Microsoft’s purchase didn’t really pan out for the company. It wrote off $7.6 billion related to the acquisition in 2015, according to TechCrunch, admitting defeat within a year. Nokia, though, kept its name, its patents, and its network infrastructure business (the bit that keeps making money today), while it handed off the manufacturing risk to Microsoft. ## Now HMD Global builds the phones ### 2016 licensing deal that put the Nokia name back on shelves In 2016, a year after Microsoft gave up on making Nokia phones, the Finnish company signed an exclusive, ten-year deal with the newly created HMD Global Oy, giving it the sole right to make Nokia-branded phones and tablets worldwide in exchange for royalty payments that covered both brand and patent licensing. HMD Global, of course, was founded by former Nokia execs who wanted to keep the brand’s phone lineage alive, just under license. Every Nokia-branded device sold since December 2016 has generated a royalty payment for Nokia without having to deal with any manufacturin
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