HMD Global Oy, branded as HMD and Nokia Mobile, is a Finnish mobile phone manufacturer. The company is made up of the mobile phone business that Nokia sold to Microsoft in 2014, then bought back in 2016. HMD began marketing Nokia-branded smartphones and feature phones on 1 December 2016. The company has exclusive rights to the Nokia brand for mobile phones through a licensing agreement. The HMD brand is only used for corporate purposes and does not appear in advertising, whereas the name „Nokia Mobile“ is used on social media.
HMD has a partnership with Google, and uses the Android operating system under the Android One program on their smartphones, whereas HMD’s feature phones use the Series 30+ platform, or most recently, the Firefox OS-derived KaiOS.
HMD is headquartered in Espoo, Finland, and is largely run by former Nokia executives.