Microsoft, closing division feature phones and Nokia license sold to Foxconn?

Microsoft is planning to close the feature phone division and give the specific license Nokia at Foxconn. Supporting it some rumors and unconfirmed officially told by VTech Chinese website. At the same time, Microsoft is about to revolutionize the entire mobile division after the results not exactly flourishing held in the first quarter of 2016. In this period the company that holds the Nokia brand, has totaled only 15 million devices sold.

This past April 2014 Microsoft it completed the acquisition of the Nokia Devices and Services and in November of that year revealed the first devices of the Lumia family with Microsoft brand. Until March 2015, the company has just introduced low-end devices, and we had to wait for October to get the first Lumia top of the range, with models 950 and 950XL. In February it was launched Lumia 650, which according to rumors could be the last Lumia.

Other recent rumors never confirmed argued that Microsoft wants to integrate the mobile division inside the Surface. Therefore, with new rumors VTech is easy to assume that, by closing the part feature phones, the remainder of the Microsoft Mobile division (which produces the Lumia devices) should be included in the broader Surface Group, with the hypothetical Surface Phone which should arrive in the first months of 2017 which will be the only device manufactured by Microsoft.

Among the most recent rumors emerged, moreover, 50% of the existing staff to work for Microsoft Mobile could be fired in addition to the 18,000 layoffs already operated within the same division. Microsoft time generates more money from the licenses from the sale of Android devices, and not with its products the Lumia family. In recent periods, with 10 Windows Mobile, the company has focused on the business and enterprise segment.

But the strategy of the giant has not yet paid, and it is indeed likely that Microsoft wants to revolutionize own division to optimize the results. A Surface Phone could be what it takes to grow interest in the excellent mobile platform, Windows Mobile 10, and that's what the fans expect from time to review Microsoft in the first places after years and years on the run.