Perhaps in just a few weeks, Nokia will no longer be the Nokia we are familiar with. After agreeing to sell equipment and services for 5.4 billion euros, Nokia will be divided into two parts: after the transaction is completed later this year, the mobile phone division will become part of Microsoft; Nokia's non-mobile assets will become an independent company.

The business will continue to carry the name Nokia, and the company's headquarters will remain in Finland, but it is a company that is completely different from Nokia, which has been in the handset market for more than two decades. According to the agreement between Nokia and Microsoft, Nokia is not allowed to produce mobile phone products for at least two years.

Without the mobile phone business, Nokia will be composed of three divisions: the network equipment division NSN, the map division Here, and the third division, which covers all other businesses, including R&D. The third division will be named "Advanced Technologies" and employs approximately 600 people.

At present, Nokia executives are studying the future direction of the company after the transaction is completed, and it is expected to draw conclusions this quarter. Nokia CTO (CTO) Henry TIrri is one of the executives responsible for researching the company.

"My current life has two very different worlds. One is the world before the end of the transaction, and the other is the world after the transaction. In my daily work, I am still the CTO of Nokia, responsible for research and development, advanced technology, and standardization. And some special projects and some platform assets.” Terry told the media at the Slush conference in Helsinki at the end of last year, “Of course, the transaction will be completed sooner or later, so I need to prepare for the new Nokia strategy.”

What is the new Nokia?

Tiri’s CTO office will become the “core of the advanced technology sector”, which is centered on R&D and has contributed two-thirds of Nokia’s new intellectual property every year. The office will still be responsible for this after the formation of the new Nokia. Work.

One of the important tasks of the "Advanced Technology Department" is broadcast technology, which was once an important support for the Nokia mobile empire, but the company will shift its research and development focus to non-cellular connection areas. Sensor technology, imaging, audio and cloud technologies will all enter the work of the new Nokia R&D department.

Regarding future technologies, Terry concluded that everything can be connected to each other (referring to broadcast technology research), everything will be digitized and updated in real time (referred to as cloud technology), and everything can be perceived by technology (referring to sensor technology).

Do not rely on patents to make a living

Although it is impossible to continue to produce mobile phones, Nokia hopes that its patents will continue to run on mobile phones around the world. At present, Nokia can get 500 million euros in revenue from patents every year. The company recently revealed that it will sign a new license agreement for existing patents, and will also license some patents that were only used for Nokia mobile phones in the past, so patent revenue is expected to continue to increase.

Nokia’s remarks on patent licensing have caught the attention of the European Commission, and Joaquín Almunia, a commissioner for competition, recently said: “Since Nokia will retain these patents, some people question the sale of mobile phones. The department can bring more patent benefits to the company. If Nokia wants to gain illegal advantage through patents in the future, we do not rule out anti-monopoly investigations, but I sincerely hope that this will not happen."

Since there is no longer a hardware business and it relies heavily on patent revenues, many believe that Nokia may become a “non-practicing entity” (NPE), a polite statement for companies that rely solely on patent revenue generation.

However, Terry refuted this. He said that Nokia's Here and NSN businesses can conclude that the company will not become a non-practicing entity, and that the use of patent portfolios to generate revenue is "not a sustainable and sensible business. We do have Young patent resources can still use two-thirds of the patents in the next decade, but this is not a sustainable business."

Tilly said: "In my opinion, we will not buy patents and then sell them. Given the number of patents we have, we don't have to do this. Of course, we may adopt a patent licensing model from time to time. To help companies or partners who don't have intellectual property protection. But this is normal business practice, and there seems to be nothing wrong with me."

In the future, Nokia is more likely to adopt technology licensing, not just patent licensing, because Nokia's product development will be based on customer needs, and then the technology developed will be licensed to customers.

The future of hardware

At the Slush conference, Nokia showed off the products that might be launched in the next few years. Employees at Nokia's R&D department showcased a number of projects, including a product called WirelessFastFlow, which allows users to automatically play content to their nearest screen via their mobile phone, as well as an old project called the KineTIc user interface. The user interface is designed for foldable screens that allow smartphone users to manipulate them by folding, such as folding a phone to zoom photos.

Hardware used to be a magic weapon for Nokia to beat its competitors, and now mobile hardware seems to be ignored on the board: Nokia and other companies believe that intelligence, storage and processing functions come from the cloud, not the hardware itself, so the hardware can get The importance of?

"Put some of the current mobile phone projects into the cloud, you can get unprecedented hardware specifications, because no longer need memory or computing power. This means that the hardware specifications will be very different, users do not have to be externally restricted." Terry said .

However, Terry also said that even if the technology no longer limits the hardware specifications, Nokia's own habits may form a limit. The professor who used to work on artificial intelligence believes that we usually only use two sizes of tablets.

Terry said: "Why can't I see other sizes of tablets? You have a magazine-sized tablet and a paperback-sized tablet, depending on our usage habits. In fact, we can also use a mini tablet. And even any size tablet."

He said that the reason why we don't have tablets of other sizes is because of the lazy thinking of human beings. We always like the size of magazines or paperbacks, but it is just a habit.

Regarding other sizes that we are familiar with in everyday life, such as watches or foldable screens, we have not scaled up in the field of mobile hardware. Tilly believes that this is because these products only copy other products functionally and hope to replace existing products.

He said: "I still believe that for a lazy brain, there must be a good enough hardware product. I personally are not very interested in watch-sized devices, but many people like it. My main point is that People think that wearable devices are just accessories for other devices, and I hope that these devices can rely on themselves to enhance my life, my senses."

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