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HMD World: HMD World wins funding from Google, Qualcomm and others

by Vanso Santalo
August 12, 2020
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HMD World: HMD World wins funding from Google, Qualcomm and others

HMD World, the maker of Nokia-branded smartphones, has secured $230 million of funding from companions together with Google, Qualcomm and Nokia Applied sciences, to assist speed up its improvement of 5G gadgets.

Chief Govt Florian Seiche mentioned the success of the funding spherical – the biggest for the reason that Finland-based firm was based in late-2016 – validated its technique of working intently with companions in software program and {hardware}.

“This important funding with a few of closest strategic companions actually permits us to speed up our journey going ahead,” he mentioned in an interview.

He didn’t disclose the person quantities, however mentioned the investments from the three have been “every very sizeable elements of the whole”.

HMD’s smartphones run Google’s Android One software program, an unadulterated model of the working system (OS) that guarantees three years of safety updates and two years of OS updates.

“Google is delivering an identical expertise by itself Pixel vary, and we’re an ideal complement to their very own initiatives,” Seiche mentioned. “They’re centered on fewer chosen geographies and channels; we’re a lot broader and likewise current in rising markets.”

HMD’s first 5G system – the Nokia 8.three 5G – goes on sale subsequent month, and Seiche mentioned the funding would speed up HMD’s improvement of 5G handsets at decrease costs.

“We imagine the second half of this yr will see a broader set of 5G telephones available in the market, and we imagine the true mid-tier vary will in all probability be within the first half of subsequent yr,” he mentioned.

HMD would additionally proceed to put money into low-priced characteristic telephones, he mentioned, and deepen its relationships with carriers in markets in Africa, India and Brazil.

Seiche mentioned COVID-19 had impacted gross sales, however demand had “come again fairly strongly” in Might and June, and the corporate had returned to profitability in June.

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