A brief history of Nokia  

Nokia is one of the world's biggest manufacturers of mobile phones. In the 2nd quarter of 2008, it was able to grab 80% share from the global market. It elevated Finland to being an even wealthier country accounting for 30% of it's GDP. Nevertheless, the success of Nokia started from its modest launching.

Nokia was born in 1895 when Frederick Idestam built a pulp mill. Originally located in Tampere, a southwestern city in Finland, the company transferred to the town of Nokia so it could utilize the river of Nokianvirta. The company took its name from this river, which was used for the production of hydroelectric power.

Nokia as we know it today begins in 1967 with the aquisition of the Finish Cable Works, a telegraph and telephone cables company. Nokia started producing lots of products ranging from newspapers, footwear, bicycles, car tires, televisions and communication cables t personal computers, aluminum capacitors and electricity generation equipment, etc.

The decision to alter its operations to mobile communication gadgets started in the 60s. The 1960s saw Nokia creating military and marketable mobile radio communications. Together with Salora Oy, Nokia created the first VHF radio in 1964. From then on, these two companies combined their efforts and started creating mobile phones following the NMT network standard. Senator Mobira, their first car phone weighing 9.8 kg, was launched in 1982.

The merging of Nokia and Salora Oy in 1984 saw the emergence of Nokia-Mobira Oy that concentrated on telecommunications. The initial mobile phone was introduced in the same year - the Mobita Talkman.

Nokia launched the best mobile phone on the planet at that time, the Mobira Cityman 900, in 1987. Weighing 800g, Mobira Cityman 900 was the lightest phone on the market. Even though it was sold at about ?4,500, Cityman still gained wide acceptance. From Nokia Oy Mobira, Nokia was born in 1988.

Deciding to concentrate on the telecommunications division in 1992, Nokia introduced the Nokia 1011, its first GSM handset in the same year. Two years after that launch, the company introduced their Nokia tune. The tune was featured in the Nokia 2100 model.

Nokia's triumph carried on until the 1st world satellite phone call was made using a Nokia mobile phone in 1994 and in 1997 Nokia introduced its first game on a mobile - Snake. Nokia the largets manufacturer of mobile phones in 1998. Their 1st WAP ready mobile phone was launched in 1999 via Nokia 7110.

Nokia's first 3G phone, the Nokia 6650, was launched in 2002 and it made them billions of dollars. And so the story continued - rigt up until the smartphone takes hold of the market. At the presnt time Nokia have some major problems as they are losing market share to several rivals. Only time will tell if Nokia can survive in its present form. But history tells us that this dynamic, innovative company should bounce back at some stage.

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