Microsoft kills Nokia X Android phones, lays off 18,000 people

17 July, 2014
Nokia X designs will be shifted to Windows Phone, while approximately 12,500 Nokia employees get sacked.

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  • AnonD-77434
  • fkf
  • 17 Jul 2014

First...Microsoft will save us

Second...Microsoft will fire us

Third....Microsoft isn't interested in the smartphone industry as services like one drive... So why on earth they went for buying Nokia?????

I hate Microsoft very much

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    • Anonymous
    • RKk
    • 17 Jul 2014

    Eske Rahn, 17 Jul 2014I wish they would change this from 18000 to 18001 - and yes... moreWhy should he be laid off?

    He did his job of scuttling Nokia perfectly. :P

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      • marcuspoleern
      • NJ8
      • 17 Jul 2014

      my lumia 1020 will be my last nokia handset. and i will never buy any windows phone in the future.

      this BS microsoft will soon be dead.

      if only nokia execs before considered android for their lumia products. in a snap, they will kill iphone and samsung!

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        • AnonD-185649
        • uB%
        • 17 Jul 2014

        Microsoft is making no sense with these strategies! What are they really trying to do? They shouldn't have started with the Nokia X in the first place! Then they release Nokia X2 and cancel it?

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          • Devraj
          • u7Y
          • 17 Jul 2014

          God help those 18000 emps. Foolish dicission with Nokia X. Some Indian companies will soon buy Microsoft and kick Satya Nadella. 😆😆😆

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            • kunnoda
            • 9DH
            • 17 Jul 2014

            thanque for providing infracture facilities i appriciate you sir.......................................................................

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              • AnonD-59657
              • sF$
              • 17 Jul 2014

              Mr. Elop should be no.1 candidate to be fired!

              He responsible for the fall of Nokia!

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                • AnonD-196068
                • p%n
                • 17 Jul 2014

                Flop is like the kiss of death wherever he goes. How many people lives does he get to mess up before this is stopped? He certainly got his wish for Nokia to be unique, just for all the wrong reasons!

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                  • T gas TT
                  • vxt
                  • 17 Jul 2014

                  stupidity on the highest level.....

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                    • Anonymous
                    • miW
                    • 17 Jul 2014

                    Nokia X is a trojan horse. You buy an Android device. You wake up next day with Windows Phone updated over night!

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                      • AnonD-32667
                      • Nay
                      • 17 Jul 2014

                      Poor 18000 people, poor Nokia. Windows is slowly making it's way around. Right now Nokia is only making sales due to people that want Windows, most other OEMS such as Samsung and HTC doesn't really put flagship specs in their Windows Models... when last did they have one. As soon as they decide to compete against Nokia with wondows, Nokia will have to retire, thus more people outta jobs.

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                        • Eske Rahn
                        • 3ii
                        • 17 Jul 2014

                        I wish they would change this from 18000 to 18001 - and yes you guessed who the extra one should be.

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                          • AnonD-92238
                          • KAe
                          • 17 Jul 2014

                          Wah...! What a fine decision. Nokia X, X+ and XL got stuck in Android jelly bean and now Nokia X2 will be stuck with kitkat :P that's even before it's release in India :D

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                            • AnonD-283265
                            • PWa
                            • 17 Jul 2014

                            MdN8, 17 Jul 2014Ruin and misery. Very sad.Why Nokia choose bad way...their phone not yet better than other Apple or Samsung.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • 3iJ
                              • 17 Jul 2014

                              Another American company destroying Europe s economy, Nokia was vital to Finland and europe as a whole it's unbelievable how the Finnish government let this happen after a century of legacy

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                                • Anonymous
                                • miW
                                • 17 Jul 2014

                                Nokia N9 all over again! History repeating itself...

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                                  • MdN8
                                  • ScK
                                  • 17 Jul 2014

                                  Ruin and misery. Very sad.