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okia is preparing to become a very different animal. The company whose name is still synonymous with mobile phones in certain parts of the world will – barring a last-minute bout of nerves from the company board – hand off its devices & services unit to Microsoft early next year in exchange for $7.2 billion. Which means that in 2014 Nokia is going to have both the time and the money to refocus its efforts elsewhere – and one key area for the future of the company, indeed one of only three remaining business units at Nokia, is maps & location services, under its HERE brand.
