Last month, when Nokia confirmed its licensing deal with HMD Global – a start-up created specifically to make handsets under the Finnish firm’s brand – there was considerable speculation that a smartphone would quickly follow, an Android device which might even, finally, bring the Nokia name a winning product in the iPhone era. These suppositions proved very wrong. The first devices from the new entity, which will be manufactured by Foxconn, return right to Nokia’s roots. Rather than bursting on the scene with the premium smartphone Nokia never quite managed, HMD has produced the sort of handsets for which the Finnish giant was loved in the pre-iPhone world, and which it continued to sell in huge numbers almost until the…