Is Nokia Still Making Phones In 2026?

Nokia might not be the name you think of for phones these days, but its best phones of all time are still iconic today, especially for millennials and Gen Xers. In recent years, the brand has tried to build off of its former glory days with contemporary remixes of classics like the 8210 or the more famous 3310. Sadly, both the Nokia label and its spiritual torch bearer have shrunk back from the global stage. They're still around, but if you want one, you'll need to go to extra lengths.

HMD Global, producer of Nokia-branded phones since 2016, went to market with six retro-style feature phones this summer: the Nokia 200 4G, the 210 4G, the 215 4G 2nd Edition, the 235 4G 2nd Edition, the 123 Shield, and the 300 Charge. The company last released a Nokia smartphone back in September 2023 with the Nokia C210; as of writing, it maintains software support for only one Android device. HMD, which stands for Human Mobile Devices, reportedly extended a brand licensing deal with the Finnish telecom equipment vendor that will keep Nokia in its portfolio until around 2029.

Nokia sold its consumer devices division to Microsoft in 2014 as part of the latter's bid to enhance the Windows Phone ecosystem. The same unit was effectively written off in 2015 and was salvaged the next year when former Nokia executives formed HMD Global to buy it. Granted, the question of who owns Nokia goes deeper than that, but HMD certainly shares lineage with the company as it once was. The start-up spent several years releasing Nokia-branded Android smartphones across the price spectrum along with the occasional feature phone redux, usually as part of a promotional tie-in (such as with the 2021 James Bond film "No Time to Die," which featured a new Nokia 3310).

In 2024, the company began producing smartphones and feature phones with the HMD label for the first time. The company ended device sales in the United States in 2025, likely due in part to uncertainties around tariffs at the time. The company is currently focused on low-end phones for markets such as India and Thailand, including "hybrid" devices that combine feature phone form factors with access to artificial intelligence features. It's a development that doesn't bode well for any return to America, where premium phones rule the roost. Then again, if Dutch Android phone maker Fairphone can come to the U.S. for the first time ever in 2026, why can't Nokia?