Nokia might re-enter the handset market with a new operating system

As you probably know, Nokia has been going back and forth regarding its future as a smartphone manufacturer. After the first rumors emerged, Nokia has officially shut them down saying that it has no intention of going back to the smartphone business. More recently, however, Nokia’s CEO Rajeev Suri had a change of heart and went on record that its company intends to design smartphones again. Once its “non-compete” clause with Microsoft expires (that’s 2016), that is. Now, according to analyst Pierre Ferragu of Berstein Research, not only that Nokia will become a threat to second-tier Android manufacturers, but it will also try it hand, again, at building an entirely new OS. Caught your interest? Good, stay with us for more. According to Pierre Ferragu, Nokia is indeed preparing to launch Android smartphones. To this extent, the company has begun hiring engineers that have “intimate familiarity with Android software.”