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Nokia and HMD Global drop out of MWC 2020

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Yordan 12 February 2020

Nokia HMD Global Android MWC 2020

The day started with a report that MWC 2020 is on the brink of being cancelled due to too much withdrawals of major companies, and today two more joined the wave.

Nokia and HMD Global sent out separate press releases from their neighboring offices in Espoo, Finland, confirming the outbreak of the coronavirus Covid-19 and the concern for the health of their employees is the major reason to pull out of the event in Barcelona.

Nokia and HMD Global cancel participation at MWC 2020

HMD Global said that the conference has always been a key stage for launching new products, however, the safety of employees, customers and stakeholders is the company’s highest priority. There will be a new timeline for any upcoming Nokia smartphones, but that will be revealed once finalized.

The words in Nokia’s press release say pretty much the same - it evaluated the situation with GSMA, stakeholders and external experts and authorities, but eventually decided to cancel participation. Instead of being part of MWC 2020, Nokia said it prefers to “go directly to customers with a series of Nokia Live events”, which sounds like an online demo of 5G technology.

HMD Global and Nokia join a plethora of other telecommunications giants, including Sony, vivo, TCL, Ulefone, a bunch of carriers and many more.

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  • C86
  • 16 Feb 2020

In the past, Nokia had a variety of satisfactory products that beat other products in the market by durability, battery strength and others. Nokia phones could market themselves among users with great ease. Today, however, competition has broken such...

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  • Matt99
  • mXQ
  • 13 Feb 2020

Stay inside, do not go out, watch TV and consume, sign up for another subscription service because you need it and vote. See what good it'll do ya!

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  • Tonnie
  • YQe
  • 13 Feb 2020

Nokia should begin to sell real phones, not just experiences of blablabla. In the past, everyone knew that Nokia is the most update and most variation on their product list. Stop being stuborn. Today, good product is not enough.

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