As HMD and Nokia's brand licensing deal slowly draws to an end, it looks like Nokia is soliciting new brand licensees.

But if it does reach the market — either under the Nokia brand or as a Microsoft phone — this much I know: It’ll be one of the most dumbfounding tech stories of 2014.

The Nokia Android series, Nokia X and Nokia X+, is set to be launched soon.

HMD Global is getting out of the phones business and taking Nokia with it. As reported by The Verge, the company issued a statement to Wired's Julian Chokkattu this week explaining that it's "made ...

Nokia continued to push its feature phones and its own operating system. The company also made the odd decision to go with Windows Phone instead of Android. We all know how that turned out.

Industry analysts repeatedly flagged the risk. “Nokia may have to ‘take the [Android] pill before [it] cannot afford to do so anymore,’” one report warned. Nokia didn’t.