Nokia sale creates waves (2)

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Flann Gao, head of communications for Nokia China, said on Tuesday there is no news about specific changes in Chinese management, staff and facilities.

"Microsoft's purchase of Nokia is not likely to change Nokia's worldwide performance in the short term because the mobile phone's overall strategy is not undergoing a big shift," said Sandy Shen, a telecom analyst with Gartner Inc.

"Whether Nokia will make a real comeback is dependent on stronger software support from Microsoft," Shen said. She added Microsoft's Windows Phone mobile platform failed to deliver a superior performance and needs to improve.

Two years after Nokia tied the knot with Microsoft in 2011 to produce smartphones based on the Windows Phone mobile operating system, analysts said the alliance has yet to bear much fruit. According to Canalys, the Windows Phone platform gained a 3 percent market share in the world's mobile operating system market, far behind Google Inc's Android system and Apple Inc's iOS platform.

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