Nokia

Nokia

Nokia is a Finnish communications and information technology multinational corporation that is headquartered in Espoo, Uusimaa, in the greater Helsinki metropolitan area. Its Nokia Networks subsidiary provides telecommunications network equipment and

services. Its wholly owned subsidiary HERE provides free-of-charge digital map information and navigation services.

In the 1970s, Nokia became more involved in the telecommunications industry by developing the Nokia DX 200. a digital switch for telephone exchanges. In 1998, Check Point established a partnership with Nokia, bundling Check Point's Software with Nokia's computer Network Security Appliances. Nokia's mobile phones got a publicity boost in 1987. Nokia was a key developer of GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications). In 1992, the first GSM phone, the Nokia 1011, was launched. Nokia launched the Nokia 3310 in late 2000 as the successor of the Nokia 3210. It has become one of the most popular devices of all time. The Nokia 1100 handset in 2003,shipping over 200 million units, is the best-selling mobile phone of all time and the world's top-selling consumer electronics product, and contributed to the company's rise in developing markets. Nokia was one of the first to recognize the market opportunity in combining a game console and a mobile phone (both of which many gamers were carrying in 2003) into the N-Gage. Nokia Productions was the first mobile filmmaking project directed by Spike Lee. Work began in April 2008, and the film premiered in October 2008. Symbian was Nokia's main smartphone operating system until 2011. Nokia 6600, the first Symbian smartphone to sold over a million unit with a soap-like design; Nokia 7610, the first Nokia with a megapixel camera; Nokia 6630 the first 3G Nokia smartphone; Nokia N90, the first camera-centric phone; Nokia N95, a popular slider; Nokia N82, with Xenon flash; Nokia E71, offering a full "qwerty" keyboard and premium build; Nokia 5800 XpressMusic the first full-touch smartphone; Nokia N97 with full-touchscreen and a side-sliding QWERTY keyboard; Nokia X6 the first capacitive touchscreen and the Nokia N8 with the newer Symbian^3 and 12 megapixel camera. The 2012 Nokia 808 PureView had a record 41-megapixel camera, and represented the end of the Symbian platform after its replacement by Windows Phone. In January 2013, Nokia reported 6.6 million smartphone sales for Q4 2012 consisting of 2.2 million Symbian and 4.4 million sales of Lumia devices (Windows Phone 7 and 8). In North America, only 700,000 mobile phones have been sold including smartphones. In February 2014, Nokia unveiled the Nokia X family—a new line of low-end smartphones running a fork of the Android operating system oriented towards Nokia and Microsoft services, and with an interface inspired by the Asha and Lumia lines. Nokia aimed the devices specifically towards emerging markets.

As of 2013, Nokia employed 90,000 people across 120 countries, conducts sales in more than 150 countries and reported annual revenues of around €12.7 billion. Nokia is a public limited-liability company listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange. It is the world's 274th-largest company measured by 2013 revenues according to the Fortune Global 500.In September 2013, Nokia sold what was once the world's largest vendor of mobile phones to Microsoft as part of an overall deal totaling €5.44 billion (US$7.17 billion). Stephen Elop, Nokia's former CEO, and several other executives joined the new Microsoft Mobile subsidiary of Microsoft as part of the deal, which closed on 25 April 2014. In 2011, The Brand Trust Report, India Study, awarded Nokia as India's Most Trusted Brand. The study was conducted by TRA Research, a leading brand analytics company. Nokia also received the Most Trusted Brand in India accolade in the year 2012 and 2013. However Nokia's ranking on The Brand Trust Report fell in 2014 to India's fifth Most Trusted Brand.