HMD 'Scaling Back' in the US, Killing Nokia All Over Again

An anonymous reader shares a report: HMD Global, the company best known for licensing the Nokia brand for new phones and tablets over the last decade, has announced that it will 'scale back' its US operations, and appears to have stopped selling both HMD and Nokia devices entirely.

Based in Finland, HMD was formed in 2016 in order to purchase the Nokia feature phone business from Microsoft, which had in turn bought the ailing brand in 2014. It also secured a license to use the Nokia name on smartphones and tablets, with a focus on affordable and midrange hardware.

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