Nokia – Earlybirds Invest https://earlybirdsinvest.com Latest Crypto News Wed, 03 Sep 2025 21:00:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.8 https://i0.wp.com/earlybirdsinvest.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/cropped-New-Project-2024-12-17T235703.455.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Nokia – Earlybirds Invest https://earlybirdsinvest.com 32 32 240146708 Why Nokia Stock Was Winning on Wednesday https://earlybirdsinvest.com/why-nokia-stock-was-winning-on-wednesday/ https://earlybirdsinvest.com/why-nokia-stock-was-winning-on-wednesday/#respond Wed, 03 Sep 2025 21:00:27 +0000 https://earlybirdsinvest.com/why-nokia-stock-was-winning-on-wednesday/ A recently closed acquisition and broadband trends in a major market should boost the company’s fundamentals.

Nokia (NOK 3.55%) was the subject of an analyst’s recommendation upgrade Wednesday, and investors expressed their appreciation by bidding up the telecom’s stock. In late-session trading it was up by more than 3% in price, well ahead of the S&P 500 index’s 0.2% gain at that point in the day.

A recent acquisition could be a game changer

Well before market open, BNP Paribas Exane‘s Jakob Bluestone changed said recommendation, pushing it up a notch to outperform (buy, in other words) from his previous neutral. His price target on Nokia’s Europe-listed stock is 4.30 euros ($5.01) per share.

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According to reports, Bluestone’s new outlook on Nokia derives largely from its latest big-ticket acquisition. Last June it acquired U.S. tech and telecom equipment supplier Infinera in a $2.3 billion deal; this closed in February.

The analyst believes that absorbing Infinera positions Nokia to benefit from investments into artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, which go hand in hand with the current wave of data center build-outs (as those facilities are modified and expanded to handle the increased resource requirements of AI).

Bluestone pointed out that at the moment, Nokia’s revenue from hyperscaler projects comprises only 5% of its overall top line. Given the high demand from such clients, that percentage could go well higher.

Business metamorphosis

At the dawn of the cellphone era, Nokia reigned supreme, particularly as a producer of handsets. It did not adjust well in the subsequent Age of the Smartphone, and since then has refashioned itself into a provider of the networking technology and associated offerings that underpin the telecom industry.

With Infinera it certainly has a chance of capturing lightning in a bottle; given that, Bluestone’s new, bullish take feels realistic.

Eric Volkman has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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TL;DR

  • This project combines the internals of a 2022 iPhone SE with the body of an old Nokia Lumia 1020.
  • While you can still use the phone’s shutter button, the Lumia’s big 41MP camera has to go to make room for iPhone hardware.
  • The iPhone is reportedly fully functional, though a bit odd to use with the home button rerouted to the phone’s back.

How many times have you been looking forward to a high-profile smartphone launch, only to have your expectations dashed when the early reports start coming in: the new phone is basically the same old thing we had before, only dressed up in a shiny new exterior? Most of the time, there’s some degree of hyperbole in that, but today we’re checking out one instance where that approach was taken quite literally.

Over on Reddit’s /r/hackintosh sub, user OceanDepth95028 shares their frankenphone creation: what they call the NokiApple LumiPhone 1020 SE. Essentially, we’re looking at the guts of an iPhone SE (2022) shoved into the hollowed-out carcass of an ancient Nokia Lumia 1020 Windows Phone handset.

While that sort of approach is probably the most sensible way to handle a total conversion like this, it also means abandoning maybe the best reason to hold onto a Lumia 1020: its big 41MP, 2/3-inch camera. Sadly, that’s go to go to make room for the Apple hardware, but thankfully the iPhone’s 12MP replacement fits well enough. Really, the only component that manages to stick around from the Windows Phone days is the phone’s front glass. And no, before you start getting your hopes up: the camera’s xenon flash also had to be sacrificed, and while it’s still physically present, the iPhone can’t take advantage of it.

In order to make this switcheroo work, OceanDepth95028 had to reposition some of the iPhone’s hardware to fit in its new Lumia home. Maybe the biggest there is moving the Touch ID home button around back under the camera — sort of a throwback to Android phones like the LG G6. There’s also some rerouting going on with the selfie cam, so it’s now in the normal sport for the 1020.

Other changes include sealing up the headphone jack (sorry, analog fans), swapping the micro USB port for Lightning, and the clever move of wiring the Lumia’s camera shutter button to the iPhone volume-down control, since it lacks a dedicated camera trigger.

OceanDepth95028 refers to this project as a custom one-off build, so if you want an iPhone-ified Nokia Lumia of your own, better pull out a soldering iron and get to work for yourself.

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