Top-ranked mobile phone maker Nokia said on Monday it would offer other mobile handset suppliers a complete design kit for making Internet-ready phones, seeking to stave off a push by Microsoft into the mobile market. The move by Nokia, maker of one of every three mobile phones sold globally, takes aim at computer software giant Microsoft, which said earlier on Monday it was offering phone makers a standard kit of software and computer chips to build new "smartphones." The Finnish mobile phone maker said in a statement released in Cannes, France with circuit-making partner Texas Instruments that they would deliver by autumn 2002 blueprints for other phone makers to design their own models.
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