The tech company is seeking partnerships and is hiring talent as it prepares to make its way back into the market.
Nokia has announced that it is now testing products, hiring experts in software, and is looking to make new sales partnerships as it builds its strategy to return to the consumer and mobile technology industry.
After having previously stepped out of the handset and smartphone business, it is now headed back in.
Nokia was once a leader in mobile technology and was the largest cell phone maker on the planet. That said, when smartphones took over basic cellular phones and feature phones, the Finnish firm made decisions that allowed Apple and Samsung to leap into the top spots. Eventually, Microsoft purchased Nokia’s handset business. Since that time in 2013, Nokia has placed all of its energies on creating equipment for telecom networks.
While Nokia can’t fully return to the mobile technology industry until the end of 2016, it plans to be ready.
The company has a non-competition deal with Microsoft that is blocking Nokia from being able to make it back into the handset business at the moment, but when that expires in 2016, Rajeev Suri, the CEO of the company, plans to be ready. The preparations are now heavily underway with the business in order to ensure that once it is free to jump back into the smartphone and consumer handset business, it will be ready to leap with both feet.
Nokia has already taken a tiny step back into the consumer marketplace after having launched a tablet based on the Android operating system. This device hit the market shelves in China in January, and is called the N1. Much more recently, it unveiled a type of “virtual-reality camera” which it has referred to as the “rebirth of Nokia”.
Other tech that the company has set out to the market includes an Android app entitled the Z Launcher, which is designed to provide smartphones with more effective content organization.
That said, a major focus of the business is now to prepare for reentry into mobile technology in a big way. It is hoping to create handsets in the future that will provide stiff competition in that market.
The device has been created with a sensor to remind parents that their kids are in the back seat.
In an effort to help parents to overcome the issue of hot car deaths of children, a smart child seat has been made by Evenflo, which will provide a reminder that there is a baby in the back seat of the vehicle.
There is a sensor built into the child seat which can detect whether or not there is a baby in it.
As well intended as the smart child seat from Evenflo may be, it has managed to spark a great deal of controversy about parent responsibility. There are many media reports, blogs, and social media posts that have taken shots at the company, at Walmart (which sells the device) and at parents who think that they would need this product. They have said that if a parent is absentminded enough to forget a baby in a hot vehicle regularly enough that a reminder is necessary, the problems are deeper than what mobile technology can correct. However, there are others that feel that this simple form of gentle reminder is designed to prevent that one time, when a mistake could be made.
The idea of the smart child seat is to help responsible parents to ensure that they don’t make a fatal mistake.
There are clearly two different camps that are viewing this mobile technology very differently. One says that the problem is deeper than a reminder device and that it should be the issue itself, not the symptom that should be treated. The other says that a good parent may be interested in that safety net not because he or she thinks that the child will be forgotten in a hot car, but to make sure that in the off chance it does happen, there will be a backup reminder to stop it from being potentially deadly.
The hot weather that has been experienced by many parts of the country, and the many instances of infants and toddlers being left in hot cars in driveways and parking lots have been terrifying reminders that it takes only minutes for a warm car to become hot enough to kill a baby or a young child. What has yet to be seen is whether a mobile device like this one would actually make a difference in changing that trend.
There have already been dozens of viral videos circulated over social media that have shown that children have been deliberately left in sweltering vehicles by their parents who just wanted to “run in” to a mall or a store, not forgotten out of carelessness. It sounds as though the people who would be most likely to purchase a smart child seat such as this one may be those that are already aware of the potentially deadly choice of leaving a baby in a hot vehicle, which makes it unclear as to whether or not a reminder is actually needed.
The company has a non-competition deal with Microsoft that is blocking Nokia from being able to make it back into the handset business at the moment, but when that expires in 2016, Rajeev Suri, the CEO of the company, plans to be ready. The preparations are now heavily underway with the business in order to ensure that once it is free to jump back into the smartphone and consumer handset business, it will be ready to leap with both feet.