Despite the release of Windows 10 Mobile, Microsoft It seems to have not found the right key to gain an important niche in the mobile phone market. For this reason, in Redmond they have decided to start a restructuring in which it seems that the days may be numbered. feature phonesThose basic mobile devices that the guys at Satya Nadella had high hopes for.
However, it seems that now they no longer fit into Microsoft's future plans, and could be willing to close a sales deal with Foxconn. This type of device does not have much of a market, and that in Redmond they know, that at the moment they kept them in their catalog as a legacy of the purchase of Nokia.
Despite this small market, Microsoft managed to sell 15 million feature phones during the first quarter of 2016, which does not seem to be enough to continue giving them encouragement.
Microsoft's idea in the short term seems to focus on the professional field, leaving aside both the basic mobile devices and the commercial market where the Lumia with Windows Phone or Windows 10 Mobile have not achieved the sales expected by almost everyone and despite the interesting characteristics and specifications of most of them.
Now we must see if the sale of Microsoft's feature phones to Foxconn is finally closed or if, on the contrary, everything remains a rumor, which undoubtedly seems not to.
Do you think Microsoft is right with the sale of the feature phones to Foxconn?.