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[Faw_Peter]

The brand nokia was named after a Finnish river in the producing town - Nokianvirta.
Your Nokia phone starts the call duration timer automatically when you start hearing the beeps, and not when the talk itself begins.
Nokia company is in list of top 20 world's richest companies, and the 1st richest mobile phone producer.
In Asia, you will never see the number 4 on Nokia models, since it's considered to be unhappy.
The original tone at SMS receipt on Nokias is a Morse code tone, meaning "SMS"
The first commercial GSM call was made in 1991, from the Nokia phone
Nokia's original ringtone is based on the Spanish opera "Gran Vals". It received the name of "Nokia tune" in 1998.

[M.Helen]

Who could imagine a phone brand can be called in the name of a river that flows nearby the city it was produced in. Actually I know that the Russian car producer Volga named its brand in the name of the Russian river Volga

[Benn]

No "4" series because in Japan and China, the spelling of "4" sounds similar to "death". Nokia is aware of these issues and took that into consideration. Good market research

[Steven]

I think nobody heard of Nokia Siemens Networks, right? It provides mobile network infrastructure, communications and networks service platforms, along with professional services to operators and service providers. It involves about 150 mobile network customers in more than 60 countries

[Steven]

In 2007 (am not sure about the present) Nokia was the largest digital camera manufacturer. Also, it's first products included TV sets.

[Faw_Peter]

In 2007 (am not sure about the present) Nokia was the largest digital camera manufacturer. Also, it's first products included TV sets.

Steven, Nokia is even at present the largest digital camera producer, but that is because all it's the first phone priducer in the world, while its every phone has a built-in camera.

[Benn]

"aikon", that is Nokia inversely - this is how the company's employees call people who have not yet used Nokia phones.

[Faw_Peter]

Watch the Nokia future morph phone concept, it's really unbelievable

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gepfifzj ... re=related

[Andrewz]

One of Nokia's freshest offers is Nokia N97!. When I saw it, I said it should be mine! Its price reaches 500-600 euros. It can be compared with 5800, but they added a keyboard, as the touchscreen is not always comfy to use.