Nokia company, a closer look at this Giant!
Nokia mobile phones are among the first mobile phones in the market.
It is the worlds largest manufacturer of mobile phone, serving customers in 130 countries.
Nokia is divided into four business groups; mobile phones, multimedia, enterprise solutions and networks. Nokia operates 15 manufacturing facilities in 9 countries and maintains research and development facilities in 12 countries. In general Nokia company is well known in the world mobile phone market.
History of Nokia company
Nokia was founded in 1865 as a single paper mill operation as a Finnish multinational corporation in finland. This term nokia was derived from the town nokia and the nokiavitra river.
This is a telecommunications company based in Espoo, Helsinki. Fredrik Idestam, Leo Michelin and Eduard Polon who were the co-founders established it in 1865. In over the 150 years of its existence it has been associated with several industries.
Initially, it focused mainly on rubber and cables, as it was a pulp mill. However, in the early 1990s it moved full throttle on telecommunications infrastructure, developing technologies and licensing.
Vitually, Nokia Company has played a major role in telecommunications ranging from the various phone models it has manufactured over time.
This brand has been a pride of everyone, being a major manufacturer of mobile and smartphone. Currently it is ranked as the third major manufacturer of network equipment and Finn’s finest brand. Fredrik Idestam was a mining engineer and he established a ground wood pulp mill on the banks of the Tammerkoski rapids in the town of Tampere in southern western of finland.
In 1868, Idestam built a second mill near the town of nokia which lies 15 kilometres west of Tampere by the Nokiavitra river. This river had better hydropower resources than those at Tampere.
I’ts on 1871 when Idestam and leo Mechelin who was a staesman and Idestam friend transformed Idestam enterprise into a public limited company they named Nokia Ab.
During 1800s, Mechelin wished to expand the company into the electricity bussiness but Idestam disagreed. However when idestam retired in 1896, Mechelion became the company chairmain and during his chairmanship he persuaded the shareholders to give way the compant to enter the electricity bussiness. From 1902 Nokia started electricity generation.
After the world war 1, the company was in crisis near bankruptcy and was taken over by Finnish rubber works. In 1932 finnish rubber works acquired Suomen kaapelitehdas oy which was founded in 1912 by Arvid wickstrom. His comany made or manufactured telephone, telegraph and electrical cables.
This made the company three partners producing different items. When the world war 2 ended, finnish cables works supplied cables to soviet union as part of its war reparation and through this the company made a foothold for later trade.
In 1967, the three companies merged to form Nokia corporation. The newly formed company manufactured products like parer items, car and bicycle rites, rubber boots, communication cables, televisions among other consumer electronics, generators, robotics, personal computers , chemicals, military technology and equipment, plastics and aluminum.
In 1960, there was formation of cable division of the Nokia group. This group in 1962 produced a pulse height analyzer used in nuclear power plants. In 1967 there was formation of electronics division with nokia corporation which operated for 15 years and at loss sometimes. There was encouragement to Nokia researchers to develop personlized projects and this may have led to Nokia focusing on mobile phone technology.
In 1960s, the Nokia corporation had started to produce commercial and military mobile radio telephones. As from 1964, the company had developed VHF radiosin collaboration with salora OY. 1966 the two companies made ARPS or radio car phones. It is untill 1971 that the company made commercial available mobile phone network in Finland and untill 1978 this mobile phone offered full network coverage in Finland.
In 1979, there was merging of Nokia and salora which lead to establishment of mobira Oy. Mobira made mobile phones for the nordic mobile telephone network reffred to as 1G and this telephone was the first fully automatic cellular phone system. This was the start point of Nokia to make phone.
EARLIEST NOKIA PHONES
This list of nokia phones is dated from 1980S to 2000s. Nokia phones were equal to other manufacturers at that time but the vision of the Nokia CEO Jorma Ollila and design consultant Frank Nuovo was to see Nokia anticipate the path of the fledging mobile industry in the early 90s. After the collaboration sawa a gradual expansion of Nokia to cover many different types of users. The eariest Nokia phones are classifeds into groups.
Analogue phones were the earlest Nokia phones which lacked strategy and design. However, when Frank Nuovo came into place as design consultant with Nokia in 1989, the big vision of Nokia came into light. Some of the Nikoa phones in this category include Nokia or mobira cityman 1320 made in 1989 from brick and it was the first handportable Nokia phone.
There were other like NMT network cityman 450 and 900. In 1990, Nokia came up with Nokia cityman 1320 from brick but with different style cityman phone. There were many other phones in this category. The other category was original GSM phones. These GSM phones were upgrades of analogue designs.
They were distinctive Nokia feel which emerged with two classic designs. Some of phones in this category are Nokia 1011 which was the first GSM phone, Nokia 2110 which was the first Nokia phone with ringtone, Nokia 2140 which had special,version of the 2110 for the orange network and other phones were made in this category, the third category eas product categories.
This was the key part of Nokia marketing strategy by 1998. Main categories were expression which was basic phone with customisable fascias and ringtone, classic which were bussiness phones, fashion which were top range consumer phones with emphases on coolness and style and premium which were top range bussiness phones emphases on status.
Nokia in 200s aded more categories like enrt and active. All these categoes had many phones in each category and there was advancement from each category to another. The enrtry category is at the base of Nokia. 1100 strated in entry category and was the most popular phone as no nonsence basic phone.
Latest Nokia phones
Lately Nokia made changes to make its phones unique and compettive in the highly competetive markert. In 2014, Nokia devices and service division was sold to microsoft. In 2016 there was a lincesed agreement between finnish company HMD global and part of microsoft where feastures Fi nnish bought microsoft features phone bussiness which allows it to make smartphones under the Nokia brand. All these added value to Nokia Corporation.
The latest Nokia mobile phone to be launched is 4.2 and was launched in february 2019. This phone comes with a 5.71 touchscreen display with a resolution of 720 pixels by 1520 pixels at PPI of 269 pixels per inch. It is powered by octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 processor. It has 2GB RAM and 16 GB internal storage which can be expanded up to 400 GB via microSD card.
The camera has 13-megapixel and 8-megapixel front shooter for selfies. This phone is runnd by android 9 and the battery capacity is 3000mAh. It weighs 161 grams. It has connectivity options of GPS, Wi-Fi, bluetooth, micro-USB and FM. The sensors include finger print, proximity, eccelerometer and Ambient light. This is the latest launched this year, however this is not the only best phone ever made by nokia there are other. Here is a list of the best Nokia phones.
Nokia 8
It is among the best rated phone by its users, it has expandable storage, dual camera ,64GB, 5.3 inches, 1440 pixels mutiply by 2560 pixels screen resolution, android 7.11 Nougat, upgreded to Android 8.0 Oreo, 4GB RAM, 2G,3G and 4G nework , WLAN, bluetooth, GPS, USB type –c 1.0,NFC connectivity, fingerprint, accelerometer, proximity, compass, gyro and barometer sensors and battery 3090mAh which is non removable.
Nokia Sirocco
HMD announced this Nokia AT mwc 2018 as an upgraded version of the Nokia 8. IT IS EQUIPED WITH A LARGE 5.5 inch curved display, has thinner bezels and offers better water protection.
Nokia 7 plus
This Nokia 7 plus is an upgrade of Nokia 7. It is an Adroid One smartphone with dual camera, newest chipset and large battery 3800 vs 3000mAh. It has displayh of 5.2 to 6 inches and an 18:9 aspect ratio. This Nokia plus as the same features of Bothie mode as Nokia 8 Sirocco. It is well designed with relatively thin bezels and aluminum body which looks and feels premium.
Nokia 7.1
It is an Android device featuring a 5.84 inch full HD + display with a notch, it has 3 Or 4GB RAM, less power than Nokia 7 Plus and it comes with snapdragon 636 chipset. This phone support the Bothie mode for taking photos with the front and rear cameras at the same time, like many other Nokia Phones. This phones has headphone jack, 3060mAh battery and metal and glass body that looks generic.
Nokia 6.1 plus
This Nokia sports a 5.8 inch Full HD+ display and it is powered by the snapdragon 636 chipset and 4GB RAM. It is with Nokia Bothie camera feature and has a modern design thin bezels and a notch and packs a 3060 mAh battery. It is a dual camera, finger print scanner and runs a stock of Android 8.1 Oreo.
Bottom line
Nokia company has many phones in the market . They are classified according to price and other features in the phone. Nokia phones are known as among best phones in the world .
