New Smartphone player - HMD Global What’s the upshot? HMD Global is using the Nokia brand to gun for the low-end, mid-range segment of the market, with pure Android, premium built devices and all will get Google Assistant. The question moving forward is whether HMD will be able to reassert Nokia as a truly bleeding-edge brand as it continues to flood the market with branded devices. After all, the smartphone market is starting to plateau, and much of the competition has begun to scale back their releases. Global smartphone sales have not been firing on all cylinders for several years now but Gartner’s latest figures record the first ever decline since the analyst began tracking the market all the way back in 2004. (Though it’s not the first analyst to call a decline.) Let's see how HMD Global will provide to the market for the 5G smartphone in 2020 ~! Nokia and HMD reboot the Nokia brand across mobile and smart home By Mike ButcherFebruary 27, 2017 HMD raises $100 million...