Ex Nokia CEO To create the Nokia Android phones we have always wanted

Robin MaxwellSeptember 5, 2013

Ex-Nokia CEO, Thomas Zilliacus, has formed a new brand named Newkia and plans to build the Nokia Android phone we dreamed of but never had.

Not happy with the way Nokia had been heading in recent years, and it’s accusation by Microsoft, Thomas Zilliacus has decided to take action and build a phone company Nokia could have been.

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Zilliacus plans to hire current Nokia heads and designers to work on the new Newkia brand which will focus on producing high quality phones, with great designs and of course Android OS!

No time frame has been put on the project, but let’s hope enough time passes for the company to think of a more fitting company name!

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Robin Maxwell
Hi, Robin Maxwell here! Mobile technology is my passions, and while I've been known to dabble with iOS devices I'm a firm Android convert, currently waiting for the Oppo Find 5 to launch!!

they need to come up with a better name than newkia!

Sisqo Sisternes
September 5, 2013
The bigger question is, will they have access to all the awesome IP that makes Nokia still worthy of a mention in the media? And by awesome IP I mean the PureView stuff?
If not, good luck, they’ll probably just be another Panasonic or Micromax, rebadging others’ phones.
Qidamin
September 5, 2013
Newkia???? it sounds like a Chinese company name who could build Nokia phones knock off! they should change the name first!

olivier
September 5, 2013
It’s sound like I’m gonna buy a new Kia …
Nokia + android = no thanks, Where is Meego ?
Peter
September 5, 2013
I think the point of the name is to make a statement. also it gives them publicity off the bat. another name may sound better, but you will remember this one

BBXiong
September 5, 2013
if they need fund, put it on kickstarter and they will have my money 😀
this is the direction that Nokia should have gone
September 6, 2013
Terrible name!
I can see the legal eagles getting involved here once they’ve picked themselves off the floor and stopped laughing.
anony
September 6, 2013
I hope naming sense doesn’t correlate to phone design, for their own good…

Marcello Rossi
September 6, 2013
I would call the company “Anokia”, keep familiarity to Nokia and adds the A for Android..
And it would be first on the list when sorting by alphabet…
Some layers could complain it’s too similar though…
Remco
September 6, 2013
I got a NewKia.
“Where did you buy your new car?”
Seriously. NewKia. He could atleast have choosen a better name.

ZEDGE
September 6, 2013
Its very simple he could use NOKYA and thats it…because the real name is NOKIA with an “i” so if they change the i to an “y”, its not against the law!!!!
And the name sounds like the original one!!!!
NOKYA= SUCESS (ANDROID)
NOKIA=VERY SHITTY IN THESE DAYS(WINDOS PHONE)
SO WHAT YOU PREFER RIGHT NOW!!!!
yash khatri
September 6, 2013
What about nokla any one wid ne
Victor
September 6, 2013
Where is this guy come from ? wearing red trouser …

Francis.R.
September 7, 2013
I just want a good cell phone with dual sim. If it has a windows phone I don’t mind (I love the design but it just has support for one sim), if it is android and from the zibarro brother of nokia I don’t mind if it is good.
Anyway, it will be interesting 2 see what can do a nokia team with android where they’ve Samsung, HTC, Sony and a big number of competitors…
Rob
September 7, 2013
Perhaps he should partner with one of the up and coming Chinese brands, and inject the Nokia values of build quality, and the unerring ability to get three bars of signal where all others have none, and the Chinese selling prices, win win!

Ace
September 7, 2013
they’re too late. all that momentum they had was eaten up by the microsoft beast.
Waris
September 7, 2013
what about Nu-kia. Its still New kia but sounds better.
Shaunuss
September 7, 2013
They should make them really square edged and call them BLOCKIA
SYHMS
September 7, 2013
LOL, this discussion seems like going until eternity.
What about just “NOK”
September 8, 2013
Chinese knock-off manufacturers will have a tough time to ‘shit-ize’ the name because it is already so shitty.