Rumors are coming about that Nokia could possibly be changing its name in a re-branding effort since it's mobile business was sold to Microsoft a year ago.
Nokia has been a company that has been fading for the past few years. Employees have been cut. Now it could be a chance for it to be saved.
Rumors about the name change has been on air for a while but the latest news is Nokia will no longer exist as a mobile phone brand. The name 'Nokia' is going to be totally erased by the world's top software developing company Microsoft soon, according to PCworld.com.
There is a question in air that when will be the first Microsoft Lumia phone announce. Microsoft didn't clarify the release date but indicated that it will be released soon. There is a speculation that first Lumia phone will be named as Microsoft Lumia 830 which may be announce at the first week of November. In recent time Microsoft's mobile phone department has taken some step which indicates that this sort of things going to happen. As a part of these in UK, Nokia's website address also been changed. Similarly Nokia's other websites domain are changing, which is on progress. Microsoft announced that, Nokia France has also changed the name, it became Microsoft Lumia. Nokia stores would soon be called as Lumia outlets.
Microsoft's this sort of steps can be predicted that from now on in the ground of branding the name Lumia will be used in place of Nokia. Same type of opinion has made by market speciatists. This April, Microsoft baught nokia's phone sector by 7.2 billion US dollars. Afterwards Microsoft launch smart phones by the brand names of the initial maker Nokia. But slowly Microsoft comes out from their strategy of using the name Nokia as a smart phone. Nokia is still a company which has other trading sectors in Finland. Nokia has a deal with Microsoft that they will not make any smart phone till December 2015.
