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The name "Nokia" is derived from the town of Nokia, Finland and the nearby Nokianvirta River, which was located next to the company’s original factory. The commercial entities that preceded the modern-day Nokia company included Nokia Ab (Nokia company); Suomen Gummitehdas Oy (Finnish Rubber Works Ltd); and Suomen Kaapelitehdas Oy (Finnish Cable Works Ltd).
Nokia Corporation [5] [a] is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, originally established as a pulp mill in 1865. Nokia's main headquarters are in Espoo, Finland, in the Helsinki metropolitan area, [3] but the company's actual roots are in the Tampere region of Pirkanmaa. [6]
Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation, founded in 1865. It is headquartered in Keilaniemi , Espoo , a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki . [ 1 ] Nokia is engaged in the manufacturing of mobile devices and in converging Internet and communications industries.
The book covers the history of the company Nokia from 2006 to 2013, during the upheaval in the mobile device industry caused by newcomers Apple, Google and low-cost competitors. To a lesser extent it also covers Nokia Solutions and Networks, then a joint venture called Nokia Siemens Networks, during the same period. [2]
With Microsoft's purchase of "substantially all" of Nokia's devices and services business, the Finnish company is ending its long mobile roller-coaster ride -- while Microsoft's may be restarting.
The Nokia 6000 series is Nokia's largest family of phones. It consists mostly of mid-range to high-end phones (many of which are Symbian smartphones ) containing a wider number of features. The 6000 series is notable for their conservative, unisex designs, which makes them popular among business users.
The report also claims that the company's decision to develop Maemo (later MeeGo) in tandem with Symbian led to a developer turf-war, that the Swipe UI was cooked up at the 80/20 Design Studio in ...
Knut Fredrik Idestam (28 October 1838, Tyrväntö, Grand Duchy of Finland – 8 April 1916, Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland) was a Finnish mining engineer and businessman, best known as a founder of Nokia. In May 1865, Idestam obtained a permit to construct a groundwood paper mill at Tampere, Finland. The mill began operations in 1866.