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Nokia also has greater dependency on England based company duo namely Symbian Corporation for its mobile operating systems and OVI for its mobile based application software development and distribution, which has made Nokia as highest selling mobile phone vendor within the last few years.
Symbian is a software platform, not company (Symbian Ltd was previously acquired by Nokia). OVI (note capitalization is incorrect) is not a company at all, it is a brand name under which Nokia launched internet services. It certainly isn't a company or based in the UK. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.93.38.67 ( talk) 22:27, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
The protocol used for the service is not IMAP but Intellisync. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.115.46.115 ( talk) 05:17, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
It is easily validated that NOKIA is among the best known Finnish brands (although people don't necessarily associate it to Finland). However, "best employer" - this is not true. Great Place to Work institute Finland http://www.greatplacetowork.fi/ has a yearly competition on best employers in Finland as well, NOKIA has never participated in it, so it is dubious to claim it to be "best employer". It is a large employer in Finland and abroad, yes, but please 1) Define "best" 2) Have a reference - who said so? Where? On what basis? Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.100.124.218 ( talk) 10:11, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
There's no way to write the name in English "phonetics".
This sentence is pointless, so I deleted it. IPA is, as the name says, INTERNATIONAL. The fact that english speakers find it difficult to pronounce it correctly is something completely different and has nothing to do with phonetics. -- MoLo 22:44, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
Pronounciation doesn't make much sense to me here...Is it prounced Knock-ia or not? -- Josquius 15:37, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
--- This creates problems to some, especially English speakers, who replace the vowels with schwas, as there are no short [o] or [a] sounds in English. Some English mispronunciations include [nəυ'ki:ə] "noe-KEY-uh" and [nɒkki:ə] "knock-E-uh".
The original version talked only about Americans, as they are the only ones for which I was able to find an example of mispronunciation. BBC newscasters pronounce it correctly. Native speakers, how do you pronounce it? -- Vuo 08:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Use this Copy/paste text and press "kuuntele puhe "button
I removed the following from the article twice:
If this is to be included (something about the corporate culture should be) it needs to be stripped and rephrased to be more NPOV. Blanket statements about national character, "one"'s expectations, and "being known for" (either it's true, in which case we can cite a reference, or it's not true. "being known for" something doesn't help) are POV and don't belong. siafu 01:12, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
Good god, some people really need to get out a bit more. Aside from the first sentence of the disputed paragraph, which could be considered a general opinion, the rest of it is fact. I don't understand what the problem is with NPOV in this case. Finland IS known for its contribution towards mobile technology, education standards HAVE gone up, they HAVE got the most computer programmers per head of population, Nokia DOES have a culture of sharing information and letting employees take the initiative with a fairly free reign, and English IS the official corporate language. Therefore I'm re-inserting the paragraph.
Point of interest: while researching a recent edit in the company's four listed "values", I noticed that both editors are right, depending on which nokia webpage you go to. Perhaps they are in the process of changing, or perhaps it is different for each country? Here's on with the older way ("Continuous learning"): http://www.nokia.ie/nokia/0,8764,29695,00.html Turnstep 20:25, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
Yes NPOV needs to be maintained. One could argue the Cold War, cold Climate, homogeneity, racial superiority, or reindeer as elements of Nokia's succeess?? One could equally reason for succeess from a another standpoint that having such dinosaurs and incompetent competitiors such as Telekom,AT&T, and Motorola are as important as reasons mentioned for Nolkia's succeesss. Hey, If IBM had developed cellular we would have $10,000 phones ( blue only), 1 very very big cell site around Armonk, software that didn't work PLUS WE WOULD STILL BE still waiting for FCS (first customer ship). LOL DMS
Am I deluded, or do I remember seeing Nokia wellington boots on sale circa 1990? 213.94.242.185 16:31, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Nothing seems to mentioned of Nokia's once massive range of television set-top boxes, including the relatively infamous 9600 and D-Box systems as well as ubiquitous VideoCrypt boxes and ITV Digital systems which meant there was probably a Nokia decoder or a rebadge of such in every third or fourth house in the UK and Ireland in the late 1990s. They were mostly satellite, but there were DTT and cable ones also. -- Kiand 01:34, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
It should be pointed out, that although the company may have divested various parts of the business, The Nokia "logo" can still be seen on many pairs of wellington boots for sale in Finland. 192.100.116.142 07:21, 19 January 2007 (UTC)SDE
The article should mention SNAP mobile. http://snapmobile.nokia.com Mathiastck 20:49, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
The entry about messaage tones in Trivia section is false. I have tested it on several models (though, older, 3510i) and it's just not true. I don't know about newer models (series 60?) so if anyone can confirm, please add that it's for newer models only (although it seems very unlikely, morse code for "Connecting people"?) or delete it.
Well, I deleted it.
"Nokia was originally a company set up to produce toilet paper." Is this true?
I thought that at the first years it was producing plastic boots. Even if they did produce only toilet paper in the beginning, I think we should still include this too.
Also, I believe it would be better if we had complete text, telling more about the things in the trivia section (not just a sentence or two).
Abresas
13:48, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Nokia sailing boots were arguably the best in the world - they were very waterproof and very durable. Sounds a bit subjective there.
Some parts of this article read like an advertisement. It's as if someone just replaced something like "We believe..." with "Nokia believes".-- 80.227.100.62 07:02, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
It's kind of ironic, or at least strange, that a Finnish town most Finns haven't even heard of, let alone visited, has managed to produce a company that is better known worldwide than Finland itself. JIP | Talk 12:00, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
The article currently carries the following
The connection to Nokia is not clear. Was Nieminen a former Nokia employer, but Benefon established as an independent company not owned by Nokia? The Benefon web site does not claim to have Nokia as a former parent. If Nokia did not establish Benefon, then the reference to Nieminen and Benefon Oy has no place in this article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Hauskalainen ( talk • contribs) 10:02, 7 January 2007 (UTC).
I had to restore the version from 09JAN2006, because all versions since then had some vandalism in it. Some legitimate content may have been lost. Jerry lavoie 04:23, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
The town and river are named after a small black marsupial found in the region which was nicknamed Nokia.
Is there really a black marsupial in Finland? Could anyone provide any more details about it?
Okay, but it's not a marsupial: The name Nokia is said to derive from the Finnish word, nokinäätä (nokinaata), a marten, an animal that inhabited the banks of Nokianvirta. The old Finnish word nois or nokia meant a black-furred sable. After the sable had become extinct in Finland the word was used to refer to other dark-furred animals such as the pine marten. -- "A town called Nokia", by Kaisa Kuikkaniemi, virtual.finland.fi
Nokia was founded in 1865 as a wood-pulp mill by Fredrik Idestam. The company then expanded into producing rubber products in the Finnish town of Nokia, and began to use Nokia as a brand. After World War II Nokia acquired Finnish Cable Works, a producer of telephone and telegraph cables. In the 1970s Nokia became more involved in the telecommunications industry by developing the Nokia DX 200, a digital switch for telephone exchanges. In the 1980s Nokia got involved in the development of mobile phones for the NMT network, and in the 1990s, the company was streamlined into focusing on mobile phones, mobile phone infrastructure and other telecommunications areas, divesting itself of other items such as televisions and personal computers.
This is more interesting. Why was its history modified to its current version???
Wow, so you rolled the article back 18 months. What's the point in anyone trying to contribute at all? Along with the 'vandalism' you also rendered accurate information to the trash can.
It says there in the article that there were a Nokia 7110 in the first movie of The Matrix Trilogy, but it was a 8110. Even the Wikipedias 7110 article knows that. I know that Nokia 7110 had a springloaded slider in the production models as I used to own one myself.
The German Wikipedia notes that the Siemens EWSD switch was put into service in Hamburg in 1980. I once heard a claim that the E8 digital switch by Alcatel was put into service even earlier. So it seems the information that the first digital switch put into service was the DX 200 by Nokia is not correct. —The preceding comment is by 194.138.18.132 15:26, 25 May 2007 ( talk • contribs) : Please sign your posts!
No mention of Nokia's venture into handheld gaming in the article? Any particular reason for this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Obonicus ( talk • contribs) 00:48, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
I understood nokia is out of the gphone os development and distribution. I dont feel like savvy enough to add it to the article, but i think it s worth adding, including its possible implications (imho it is a mistake). thanks. -- BBird 21:18, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
I was planning to buy a Nokia cell phone but then I started having vague memory about their phones exploding. So I went to read this article as I thought it might have something useful. Well this article has nothing on it so some people have already come by and removed it from the article, making it useless as an article for good advice in this area. I don't even need to list sources, a simply good search will find this stuff. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Nokia+cell+phone+explode William Ortiz 02:03, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Just a comment . Nokia is big in Latin America also . I work for Nokia . I dont see too much emphasis in Latin America. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.191.76.40 ( talk) 01:59, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
What about Trolltech? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.140.117.95 ( talk) 18:09, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Does Nokia have production facilities in Malaysia? This edit [1] was from someone who has been vandalising or otherwise introducing inaccurcies into articles. One or two of his edits have been perhaps correct and I don't know enough here to be confident to revert it Nil Einne ( talk) 10:40, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
"Go Green" section is very un-encyclopedic. Please rewrite. Netrat_msk ( talk) 01:41, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
I removed it as it was really bad. If someone wants to rewrite it here it is:
Go Green
These days the new trend is to keep our environment clean, with recycling and re-use materials, form the flex fuel cars to electric cars. Well, Nokia has come out with their new concept phone “Remade”. The Remade is an environmentally friendly phone made entirely from recycled material. It is made from plastic bottles, upcycled aluminum cans, and the rubber keypad is made out of old car tires. The Remade is part of Nokia’s ambition towards the environmental effort.
Inside the phone are new more environmentally friendly technologies like printed electronics, the graphics that are used on the display save energy and still have a stylish look. Although the Remade is just a concept phone, this does pave the way for companies to start designing and selling these type of environmentally friendly phones.
I think that the "Remade" should be mentioned, as it has been mentioned on places like
Engadget.
Neilgravir (
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22:45, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Is there any news of Nokia 5800 XpressMedia? 222.254.25.126 ( talk) 09:49, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
What about nokia 888 http://www.nokia888.com/. if it's legit I think it seems novel enough to warrent a section or article of its own. Consider that almost every ipod model has it's own page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.86.74.135 ( talk) 14:13, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
There's absolutely no mention of Widsets anywhere on the Nokia page. I think that there should be. 88.114.142.100 ( talk) 17:35, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
The article says the pronunciation is /'nɔkiɑ/ but there's no IPA symbol ɔ on Wikipedia:IPA for English. Should it be /'nɔ:kiɑ/? The (Finnish?) Nokia developer in this video pronounces it know-kia - /'naʊkia/ or perhaps /'nɔːkia/. - sYndicate talk 20:11, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
Got the page unprotected a week or two back, glad someone has made on the article now. -- PopUpPirate ( talk) 13:21, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
The term Xenon Flash redirects to a page that is irrelevant. Reccomended removal of redirect. Goldhunt ( talk) 07:28, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_39/b4196007421255.htm?chan=magazine+channel_opening+remarks Ratul655 ( talk) 07:23, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Is recent history's slant towards recent events really an issue? I mean, that's the point of that section. -- Topperfalkon ( talk) 11:59, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
In response to the template, I attempted to prosify the list of new product releases. I'm not sure that I like it better, or that it's any improvement at all, but if you choose to revert, note that I corrected the spelling of "introduced" along the way: only one "u." Ragityman ( talk) 07:55, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
A couple of things:
It also feels like some of the stats given could be included later on in the article with a synthesis/summary in the intro, but that's more of a nitpick. The issues I mentioned seem fairly significant and I wanted to bring them up. Gonfaloniere ( talk) 23:47, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
...Nokia design. We need to document about Nokia’s phone and visual design, as well as the history of Nokia Sans and Nokia Pure, the Nokia typefaces. — Fitoschido [shout] \\ 24 June, 2011 [03:57]
Do anyone has the full list of all nokia NFC devices??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Awesomeflint ( talk • contribs) 20:09, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I'm using Nokia 2700 mobile. I want to know how to block a incoming call or message. Just i need to stop a particular number messages. Please tell me how. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.72.18.98 ( talk) 19:26, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
diff "Nokia also has greater dependency on England based company duo namely Symbian Corporation for its mobile operating systems and OVI for its mobile-based application software development and distribution, which has made Nokia as highest-selling mobile-phone vendor within the past few years."
The grammar doesn't make sense, and I'm not sure it should be in the lead anyway. If necessary please fix. Imgaril ( talk) 17:46, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
Nokia Preps Return to U.S.; T-Mobile USA Expected to Offer New Windows-Powered Lumia Phone by WILL CONNORS, CHRISTOPHER LAWTON and SPENCER E. ANTE, excerpt ...
Nokia Corp. is gearing up to introduce the U.S. to its first device powered by Microsoft Corp.'s latest Windows software for smartphones, an attempt by the Finnish handset maker to break into the lucrative American market. The debut will come next week when T-Mobile USA plans to announce that it will distribute the device, called the Lumia, at an event it is co-hosting with Nokia in New York, said a person familiar with the matter.
99.181.136.158 ( talk) 00:18, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Computer monitors, televisions, and factory car speakers -- 217.39.35.230 ( talk) 03:00, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
I think Nokia should revise their decision of using Windows Operating System for Nokia smart phones. They should introduce some mobiles with Android which will sell like hot cakes. People believe in Nokia's hardwares but the problem with current smart phone is that people want Android. Therefore, if Nokia launch Android phone they can achieve their lost status. Otherwise Nokia's future is dim.
I added this text a few months ago. I think I am right as Nokia is losing market day by day. There was a time when Nokia was the largest mobile manufacturer but now they are on 2nd place after Samsung. The onlt thing that can boost Nokia's market is Android.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.27.249.168 ( talk) 19:57, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
There seems to be some spam in the infobox. It would be great if someone who knows the right information could fix it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.252.150.15 ( talk) 18:53, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
There following paragraph has been deleted with the edit summary "undue". I think it is interesting and relevant. I do not see why Wikipedia should just be a pile of irrelevant and boring facts. Let's also have some interesting information! Having said this, I do agree that this can be improved a lot, should be shortend, fact-checked (!) and moved. But it clearly should not simply be deleted. Especially not just because somebody thinks it is "undue". Martin.uecker ( talk) 03:34, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
On 22 August 2011 Nokia Siemens became embroiled in a scandal related to the use and abuse of surveillance systems delivered to the Bahrain government by one of its former business units, Nokia Siemens Intelligence Solutions (NSIS). The spy gear in Bahrain was sold by Siemens AG (SIE), and maintained by Nokia Siemens Networks and NSN's divested unit, Trovicor GmbH. The sale and maintenance contracts were also confirmed by Ben Roome, a Nokia Siemens spokesman based in Farnborough, England. The system was reportedly used as the investigative tool of choice to gather information about political dissidents—and silence them. Companies such as Nokia and Nokia Siemens are free to sell such equipment almost anywhere. For the most part, the U.S. and European countries lack export controls to deter the use of such systems for repression, as was the case in Bahrain were at least 30 people were killed during the 2011 uprising. Many Western nations actively support the export of these systems of repression, e.g. to countries that are home to some of the U.S. Navy's Fleet. Monitoring centers, as the systems are called, are sold around the world by Nokia Siemens and its competitors, such as Israel-based Nice Systems Ltd. (NICE), and Verint Systems Inc. (VRNT), headquartered in Melville, New York. They form the heart of so-called lawful interception surveillance systems. By the end of 2007, the Nokia Siemens Intelligence Solutions unit had more than 90 systems installed in 60 countries.[127] Besides Bahrain, several other Middle Eastern nations that cracked down on uprisings this year—including Egypt, Syria and Yemen—also purchased monitoring centers from the chain of businesses now known as Trovicor. Trovicor equipment plays a surveillance role in at least 12 Middle Eastern and North African nations. Trovicor's precursor, which started in 1993 as the voice- and data-recording unit of Siemens, in 2007 became part of Nokia Siemens Networks, the world's second biggest maker of wireless communications equipment. NSN, a 50-50 joint venture with Espoo, Finland-based Nokia Oyj (NOK1V), sold the unit, known as Intelligence Solutions, in March 2009. The new owners, Guernsey-based Perusa Partners Fund 1 LP, renamed the business Trovicor, coined from the Latin and Esperanto words for find and heart, according to the company's website. According to NSN the elevated risk of human rights abuses was a major reason for NSN's exiting the monitoring-center business. In Bahrain, officials routinely used the NSIS surveillance systems as a basis for the arrest and torture of political opponents; legally the monitoring technology is to be only used by order of legal authorities such as judges and prosecutors. According to local regulations, every Bahraini phone and Internet operator must provide the state with the ability to monitor communications. Phone companies also must track the location of phones within a 164-foot (50-meter) radius, the rules say. NSN and Trovicor's status as exclusive provider in Bahrain continued at least through 2009. That period of more than two years coincides with the dates of text messages used to interrogate scores of political detainees. Authorities used messages that dated as far back as the mid-2000s, even in recent interrogations.[128]
All of the references from Nokia website about history are dead. Please fix it. Thank you 1.54.39.117 ( talk) 10:47, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
While the story told in the press is that the iPhone came and then Nokia was doomed, this is only partially true. While Nokia lost smartphone market share after iPhone and then Android phones came they were still clearly market leader and the smart devices unit was making a profit until the beginning of 2011. (BTW: it is mathematically impossible not to loose market share if you have basically 100% of the market share and others players enter the market - even if you are growing faster in absolute numbers). Only after Symbian was deprecated (and all Meego products cancelled with the exception of the N9 which was not sold in larger markets), smartphone sales collapsed and the smart devices unit went loss-making. At the end of 2011 the first Lumia smartphones were introduced, but up to now (Mai 2013) they never sold in any meaningful number when compared to former sales of Symbian smartphones (which was not too surprising since Windows Mobile/Phone never sold well before). Smartphone sales in absolute numbers are shown here: http://www.asymco.com/2013/04/18/lumia-is-the-light-visible/ (and can also be found in Nokia's reports). Also, it is often claimed that the profit Nokia made in Q4 2012 was due to the Lumia line, but this is clearly not true (as indicated by a negative contribution margin for smart devices in the quartely reports). I document this here, because these facts are often misrepresented in secondary sources and will likely be disputed. The numbers speak a clear language and can be found in Nokia's quarely reports. http://www.nokia.com/global/about-nokia/investors/financials/reports/results---reports/ Martin.uecker ( talk) 04:22, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
Citation needed. -- 89.210.239.207 ( talk) 12:40, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
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Currently, it seems that Microsoft had already acquired Nokia, as declared in news, social websites and even an user Drew also says that. But two days ago, I edited both articles i.e Nokia and Stephen Elop (mainly those sentences of acquisition), and made the sentences from future tense to past tense along with correcting grammatical errors. What I found that, my edits were reverted back.
Why ?
Himanis Das
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11:50, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
I'm here at the request of an RfC; how may I help? Basket Feudalist 12:33, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
I have commenced a revision of the History section, as the grammar was poor, the tone was promotional, information was repeated, and a questionable citation was used. I understand that it may be difficult to garner reputable sources for this section, so we may have to pare it down? I will continue to look at the entire section, as I only revised one sub-section, but it would be great if any copyeditors with expertise can contribute.-- Soulparadox ( talk) 03:18, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
What will happen to the Nokia page after Microsoft takes its (Nokia's) largest division? this page seems to be all about mobile, and after Microsoft has taken that part of the company, over 80% of the page will not be relevant with the company anymore, will it be moved to the history section? personally I'd suggest a model more akin to I.B.M. ( International Business Machines) where all the previous industries have an epitome in the history section, and a more detailed page in the actual history page of the company, while the rest of the page concentrates more on what's actually still in the company. Another possible model is that of Motorola, though that is completely different, and happened under different circumstances, also how will the pages relevant to the sold off divisions look after the deal, most will need to be updated to match it. Another model would be splitting the page into a mobile division (incl. history) and one for the company, though that would be a bad idea as there is no page for Nokia's mobile division other than this one, so I want to suggest to follow the I.B.M. model. -- 86.81.201.94 ( talk) 10:34, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
As this article is being restructured, here's a permanent link to the last revision which contained all of the D&S information: [2]
-- RaviC ( talk) 07:29, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
To my knowledge, there was no N9 with that color ( http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Nokia_N9.jpg/220px-Nokia_N9.jpg ) The awailable colors were Cyan, Magenta, Black and White. I think the picture should be changed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.90.110.125 ( talk) 08:51, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
I suggest that we'll move all current and recent phone content to the Microsoft Mobile page, and update the employee number and the list of staff (Elop doesn't work for Nokia anymore, he's under Microsoft now), under divisions many units are placed that are no longer a part of Nokia but sold to Microsoft, can someone please revise most of the page? -- 87.208.17.6 ( talk) 09:46, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
I suggest a potential split of all non relevant content such as various mobile telephone-related sections into a history of Nokia article modelled after the present History of Microsoft and History of Apple Inc. articles, the level of details into the mobile telephone related business is redundant to the present company and should only be explained as an epitome, while more detailed information of Nokia S40, Symbian, MeeGo, Windows Phone, Etc. can go into the history article. Sincerely, -- 86.81.201.94 ( talk) 11:23, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
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As Nokia mostly is known for their phones, one would expect this article about Nokia to at least have a link to a list/article about Nokia phones. Ragnar Ekre ( talk) 01:57, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
At its peak in 2000, Nokia alone accounted for 4% of the country's GDP, 21% of total exports and 70% of the Helsinki Stock Exchange market capital.
Quoted with no context at all. Sad. — MaxEnt 22:22, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
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Nokia also has greater dependency on England based company duo namely Symbian Corporation for its mobile operating systems and OVI for its mobile based application software development and distribution, which has made Nokia as highest selling mobile phone vendor within the last few years.
Symbian is a software platform, not company (Symbian Ltd was previously acquired by Nokia). OVI (note capitalization is incorrect) is not a company at all, it is a brand name under which Nokia launched internet services. It certainly isn't a company or based in the UK. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.93.38.67 ( talk) 22:27, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
The protocol used for the service is not IMAP but Intellisync. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.115.46.115 ( talk) 05:17, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
It is easily validated that NOKIA is among the best known Finnish brands (although people don't necessarily associate it to Finland). However, "best employer" - this is not true. Great Place to Work institute Finland http://www.greatplacetowork.fi/ has a yearly competition on best employers in Finland as well, NOKIA has never participated in it, so it is dubious to claim it to be "best employer". It is a large employer in Finland and abroad, yes, but please 1) Define "best" 2) Have a reference - who said so? Where? On what basis? Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.100.124.218 ( talk) 10:11, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
There's no way to write the name in English "phonetics".
This sentence is pointless, so I deleted it. IPA is, as the name says, INTERNATIONAL. The fact that english speakers find it difficult to pronounce it correctly is something completely different and has nothing to do with phonetics. -- MoLo 22:44, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
Pronounciation doesn't make much sense to me here...Is it prounced Knock-ia or not? -- Josquius 15:37, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
--- This creates problems to some, especially English speakers, who replace the vowels with schwas, as there are no short [o] or [a] sounds in English. Some English mispronunciations include [nəυ'ki:ə] "noe-KEY-uh" and [nɒkki:ə] "knock-E-uh".
The original version talked only about Americans, as they are the only ones for which I was able to find an example of mispronunciation. BBC newscasters pronounce it correctly. Native speakers, how do you pronounce it? -- Vuo 08:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Use this Copy/paste text and press "kuuntele puhe "button
I removed the following from the article twice:
If this is to be included (something about the corporate culture should be) it needs to be stripped and rephrased to be more NPOV. Blanket statements about national character, "one"'s expectations, and "being known for" (either it's true, in which case we can cite a reference, or it's not true. "being known for" something doesn't help) are POV and don't belong. siafu 01:12, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
Good god, some people really need to get out a bit more. Aside from the first sentence of the disputed paragraph, which could be considered a general opinion, the rest of it is fact. I don't understand what the problem is with NPOV in this case. Finland IS known for its contribution towards mobile technology, education standards HAVE gone up, they HAVE got the most computer programmers per head of population, Nokia DOES have a culture of sharing information and letting employees take the initiative with a fairly free reign, and English IS the official corporate language. Therefore I'm re-inserting the paragraph.
Point of interest: while researching a recent edit in the company's four listed "values", I noticed that both editors are right, depending on which nokia webpage you go to. Perhaps they are in the process of changing, or perhaps it is different for each country? Here's on with the older way ("Continuous learning"): http://www.nokia.ie/nokia/0,8764,29695,00.html Turnstep 20:25, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
Yes NPOV needs to be maintained. One could argue the Cold War, cold Climate, homogeneity, racial superiority, or reindeer as elements of Nokia's succeess?? One could equally reason for succeess from a another standpoint that having such dinosaurs and incompetent competitiors such as Telekom,AT&T, and Motorola are as important as reasons mentioned for Nolkia's succeesss. Hey, If IBM had developed cellular we would have $10,000 phones ( blue only), 1 very very big cell site around Armonk, software that didn't work PLUS WE WOULD STILL BE still waiting for FCS (first customer ship). LOL DMS
Am I deluded, or do I remember seeing Nokia wellington boots on sale circa 1990? 213.94.242.185 16:31, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Nothing seems to mentioned of Nokia's once massive range of television set-top boxes, including the relatively infamous 9600 and D-Box systems as well as ubiquitous VideoCrypt boxes and ITV Digital systems which meant there was probably a Nokia decoder or a rebadge of such in every third or fourth house in the UK and Ireland in the late 1990s. They were mostly satellite, but there were DTT and cable ones also. -- Kiand 01:34, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
It should be pointed out, that although the company may have divested various parts of the business, The Nokia "logo" can still be seen on many pairs of wellington boots for sale in Finland. 192.100.116.142 07:21, 19 January 2007 (UTC)SDE
The article should mention SNAP mobile. http://snapmobile.nokia.com Mathiastck 20:49, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
The entry about messaage tones in Trivia section is false. I have tested it on several models (though, older, 3510i) and it's just not true. I don't know about newer models (series 60?) so if anyone can confirm, please add that it's for newer models only (although it seems very unlikely, morse code for "Connecting people"?) or delete it.
Well, I deleted it.
"Nokia was originally a company set up to produce toilet paper." Is this true?
I thought that at the first years it was producing plastic boots. Even if they did produce only toilet paper in the beginning, I think we should still include this too.
Also, I believe it would be better if we had complete text, telling more about the things in the trivia section (not just a sentence or two).
Abresas
13:48, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Nokia sailing boots were arguably the best in the world - they were very waterproof and very durable. Sounds a bit subjective there.
Some parts of this article read like an advertisement. It's as if someone just replaced something like "We believe..." with "Nokia believes".-- 80.227.100.62 07:02, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
It's kind of ironic, or at least strange, that a Finnish town most Finns haven't even heard of, let alone visited, has managed to produce a company that is better known worldwide than Finland itself. JIP | Talk 12:00, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
The article currently carries the following
The connection to Nokia is not clear. Was Nieminen a former Nokia employer, but Benefon established as an independent company not owned by Nokia? The Benefon web site does not claim to have Nokia as a former parent. If Nokia did not establish Benefon, then the reference to Nieminen and Benefon Oy has no place in this article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Hauskalainen ( talk • contribs) 10:02, 7 January 2007 (UTC).
I had to restore the version from 09JAN2006, because all versions since then had some vandalism in it. Some legitimate content may have been lost. Jerry lavoie 04:23, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
The town and river are named after a small black marsupial found in the region which was nicknamed Nokia.
Is there really a black marsupial in Finland? Could anyone provide any more details about it?
Okay, but it's not a marsupial: The name Nokia is said to derive from the Finnish word, nokinäätä (nokinaata), a marten, an animal that inhabited the banks of Nokianvirta. The old Finnish word nois or nokia meant a black-furred sable. After the sable had become extinct in Finland the word was used to refer to other dark-furred animals such as the pine marten. -- "A town called Nokia", by Kaisa Kuikkaniemi, virtual.finland.fi
Nokia was founded in 1865 as a wood-pulp mill by Fredrik Idestam. The company then expanded into producing rubber products in the Finnish town of Nokia, and began to use Nokia as a brand. After World War II Nokia acquired Finnish Cable Works, a producer of telephone and telegraph cables. In the 1970s Nokia became more involved in the telecommunications industry by developing the Nokia DX 200, a digital switch for telephone exchanges. In the 1980s Nokia got involved in the development of mobile phones for the NMT network, and in the 1990s, the company was streamlined into focusing on mobile phones, mobile phone infrastructure and other telecommunications areas, divesting itself of other items such as televisions and personal computers.
This is more interesting. Why was its history modified to its current version???
Wow, so you rolled the article back 18 months. What's the point in anyone trying to contribute at all? Along with the 'vandalism' you also rendered accurate information to the trash can.
It says there in the article that there were a Nokia 7110 in the first movie of The Matrix Trilogy, but it was a 8110. Even the Wikipedias 7110 article knows that. I know that Nokia 7110 had a springloaded slider in the production models as I used to own one myself.
The German Wikipedia notes that the Siemens EWSD switch was put into service in Hamburg in 1980. I once heard a claim that the E8 digital switch by Alcatel was put into service even earlier. So it seems the information that the first digital switch put into service was the DX 200 by Nokia is not correct. —The preceding comment is by 194.138.18.132 15:26, 25 May 2007 ( talk • contribs) : Please sign your posts!
No mention of Nokia's venture into handheld gaming in the article? Any particular reason for this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Obonicus ( talk • contribs) 00:48, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
I understood nokia is out of the gphone os development and distribution. I dont feel like savvy enough to add it to the article, but i think it s worth adding, including its possible implications (imho it is a mistake). thanks. -- BBird 21:18, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
I was planning to buy a Nokia cell phone but then I started having vague memory about their phones exploding. So I went to read this article as I thought it might have something useful. Well this article has nothing on it so some people have already come by and removed it from the article, making it useless as an article for good advice in this area. I don't even need to list sources, a simply good search will find this stuff. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Nokia+cell+phone+explode William Ortiz 02:03, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Just a comment . Nokia is big in Latin America also . I work for Nokia . I dont see too much emphasis in Latin America. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.191.76.40 ( talk) 01:59, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
What about Trolltech? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.140.117.95 ( talk) 18:09, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Does Nokia have production facilities in Malaysia? This edit [1] was from someone who has been vandalising or otherwise introducing inaccurcies into articles. One or two of his edits have been perhaps correct and I don't know enough here to be confident to revert it Nil Einne ( talk) 10:40, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
"Go Green" section is very un-encyclopedic. Please rewrite. Netrat_msk ( talk) 01:41, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
I removed it as it was really bad. If someone wants to rewrite it here it is:
Go Green
These days the new trend is to keep our environment clean, with recycling and re-use materials, form the flex fuel cars to electric cars. Well, Nokia has come out with their new concept phone “Remade”. The Remade is an environmentally friendly phone made entirely from recycled material. It is made from plastic bottles, upcycled aluminum cans, and the rubber keypad is made out of old car tires. The Remade is part of Nokia’s ambition towards the environmental effort.
Inside the phone are new more environmentally friendly technologies like printed electronics, the graphics that are used on the display save energy and still have a stylish look. Although the Remade is just a concept phone, this does pave the way for companies to start designing and selling these type of environmentally friendly phones.
I think that the "Remade" should be mentioned, as it has been mentioned on places like
Engadget.
Neilgravir (
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22:45, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Is there any news of Nokia 5800 XpressMedia? 222.254.25.126 ( talk) 09:49, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
What about nokia 888 http://www.nokia888.com/. if it's legit I think it seems novel enough to warrent a section or article of its own. Consider that almost every ipod model has it's own page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.86.74.135 ( talk) 14:13, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
There's absolutely no mention of Widsets anywhere on the Nokia page. I think that there should be. 88.114.142.100 ( talk) 17:35, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
The article says the pronunciation is /'nɔkiɑ/ but there's no IPA symbol ɔ on Wikipedia:IPA for English. Should it be /'nɔ:kiɑ/? The (Finnish?) Nokia developer in this video pronounces it know-kia - /'naʊkia/ or perhaps /'nɔːkia/. - sYndicate talk 20:11, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
Got the page unprotected a week or two back, glad someone has made on the article now. -- PopUpPirate ( talk) 13:21, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
The term Xenon Flash redirects to a page that is irrelevant. Reccomended removal of redirect. Goldhunt ( talk) 07:28, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_39/b4196007421255.htm?chan=magazine+channel_opening+remarks Ratul655 ( talk) 07:23, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Is recent history's slant towards recent events really an issue? I mean, that's the point of that section. -- Topperfalkon ( talk) 11:59, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
In response to the template, I attempted to prosify the list of new product releases. I'm not sure that I like it better, or that it's any improvement at all, but if you choose to revert, note that I corrected the spelling of "introduced" along the way: only one "u." Ragityman ( talk) 07:55, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
A couple of things:
It also feels like some of the stats given could be included later on in the article with a synthesis/summary in the intro, but that's more of a nitpick. The issues I mentioned seem fairly significant and I wanted to bring them up. Gonfaloniere ( talk) 23:47, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
...Nokia design. We need to document about Nokia’s phone and visual design, as well as the history of Nokia Sans and Nokia Pure, the Nokia typefaces. — Fitoschido [shout] \\ 24 June, 2011 [03:57]
Do anyone has the full list of all nokia NFC devices??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Awesomeflint ( talk • contribs) 20:09, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I'm using Nokia 2700 mobile. I want to know how to block a incoming call or message. Just i need to stop a particular number messages. Please tell me how. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.72.18.98 ( talk) 19:26, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
diff "Nokia also has greater dependency on England based company duo namely Symbian Corporation for its mobile operating systems and OVI for its mobile-based application software development and distribution, which has made Nokia as highest-selling mobile-phone vendor within the past few years."
The grammar doesn't make sense, and I'm not sure it should be in the lead anyway. If necessary please fix. Imgaril ( talk) 17:46, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
Nokia Preps Return to U.S.; T-Mobile USA Expected to Offer New Windows-Powered Lumia Phone by WILL CONNORS, CHRISTOPHER LAWTON and SPENCER E. ANTE, excerpt ...
Nokia Corp. is gearing up to introduce the U.S. to its first device powered by Microsoft Corp.'s latest Windows software for smartphones, an attempt by the Finnish handset maker to break into the lucrative American market. The debut will come next week when T-Mobile USA plans to announce that it will distribute the device, called the Lumia, at an event it is co-hosting with Nokia in New York, said a person familiar with the matter.
99.181.136.158 ( talk) 00:18, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Computer monitors, televisions, and factory car speakers -- 217.39.35.230 ( talk) 03:00, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
I think Nokia should revise their decision of using Windows Operating System for Nokia smart phones. They should introduce some mobiles with Android which will sell like hot cakes. People believe in Nokia's hardwares but the problem with current smart phone is that people want Android. Therefore, if Nokia launch Android phone they can achieve their lost status. Otherwise Nokia's future is dim.
I added this text a few months ago. I think I am right as Nokia is losing market day by day. There was a time when Nokia was the largest mobile manufacturer but now they are on 2nd place after Samsung. The onlt thing that can boost Nokia's market is Android.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.27.249.168 ( talk) 19:57, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
There seems to be some spam in the infobox. It would be great if someone who knows the right information could fix it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.252.150.15 ( talk) 18:53, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
There following paragraph has been deleted with the edit summary "undue". I think it is interesting and relevant. I do not see why Wikipedia should just be a pile of irrelevant and boring facts. Let's also have some interesting information! Having said this, I do agree that this can be improved a lot, should be shortend, fact-checked (!) and moved. But it clearly should not simply be deleted. Especially not just because somebody thinks it is "undue". Martin.uecker ( talk) 03:34, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
On 22 August 2011 Nokia Siemens became embroiled in a scandal related to the use and abuse of surveillance systems delivered to the Bahrain government by one of its former business units, Nokia Siemens Intelligence Solutions (NSIS). The spy gear in Bahrain was sold by Siemens AG (SIE), and maintained by Nokia Siemens Networks and NSN's divested unit, Trovicor GmbH. The sale and maintenance contracts were also confirmed by Ben Roome, a Nokia Siemens spokesman based in Farnborough, England. The system was reportedly used as the investigative tool of choice to gather information about political dissidents—and silence them. Companies such as Nokia and Nokia Siemens are free to sell such equipment almost anywhere. For the most part, the U.S. and European countries lack export controls to deter the use of such systems for repression, as was the case in Bahrain were at least 30 people were killed during the 2011 uprising. Many Western nations actively support the export of these systems of repression, e.g. to countries that are home to some of the U.S. Navy's Fleet. Monitoring centers, as the systems are called, are sold around the world by Nokia Siemens and its competitors, such as Israel-based Nice Systems Ltd. (NICE), and Verint Systems Inc. (VRNT), headquartered in Melville, New York. They form the heart of so-called lawful interception surveillance systems. By the end of 2007, the Nokia Siemens Intelligence Solutions unit had more than 90 systems installed in 60 countries.[127] Besides Bahrain, several other Middle Eastern nations that cracked down on uprisings this year—including Egypt, Syria and Yemen—also purchased monitoring centers from the chain of businesses now known as Trovicor. Trovicor equipment plays a surveillance role in at least 12 Middle Eastern and North African nations. Trovicor's precursor, which started in 1993 as the voice- and data-recording unit of Siemens, in 2007 became part of Nokia Siemens Networks, the world's second biggest maker of wireless communications equipment. NSN, a 50-50 joint venture with Espoo, Finland-based Nokia Oyj (NOK1V), sold the unit, known as Intelligence Solutions, in March 2009. The new owners, Guernsey-based Perusa Partners Fund 1 LP, renamed the business Trovicor, coined from the Latin and Esperanto words for find and heart, according to the company's website. According to NSN the elevated risk of human rights abuses was a major reason for NSN's exiting the monitoring-center business. In Bahrain, officials routinely used the NSIS surveillance systems as a basis for the arrest and torture of political opponents; legally the monitoring technology is to be only used by order of legal authorities such as judges and prosecutors. According to local regulations, every Bahraini phone and Internet operator must provide the state with the ability to monitor communications. Phone companies also must track the location of phones within a 164-foot (50-meter) radius, the rules say. NSN and Trovicor's status as exclusive provider in Bahrain continued at least through 2009. That period of more than two years coincides with the dates of text messages used to interrogate scores of political detainees. Authorities used messages that dated as far back as the mid-2000s, even in recent interrogations.[128]
All of the references from Nokia website about history are dead. Please fix it. Thank you 1.54.39.117 ( talk) 10:47, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
While the story told in the press is that the iPhone came and then Nokia was doomed, this is only partially true. While Nokia lost smartphone market share after iPhone and then Android phones came they were still clearly market leader and the smart devices unit was making a profit until the beginning of 2011. (BTW: it is mathematically impossible not to loose market share if you have basically 100% of the market share and others players enter the market - even if you are growing faster in absolute numbers). Only after Symbian was deprecated (and all Meego products cancelled with the exception of the N9 which was not sold in larger markets), smartphone sales collapsed and the smart devices unit went loss-making. At the end of 2011 the first Lumia smartphones were introduced, but up to now (Mai 2013) they never sold in any meaningful number when compared to former sales of Symbian smartphones (which was not too surprising since Windows Mobile/Phone never sold well before). Smartphone sales in absolute numbers are shown here: http://www.asymco.com/2013/04/18/lumia-is-the-light-visible/ (and can also be found in Nokia's reports). Also, it is often claimed that the profit Nokia made in Q4 2012 was due to the Lumia line, but this is clearly not true (as indicated by a negative contribution margin for smart devices in the quartely reports). I document this here, because these facts are often misrepresented in secondary sources and will likely be disputed. The numbers speak a clear language and can be found in Nokia's quarely reports. http://www.nokia.com/global/about-nokia/investors/financials/reports/results---reports/ Martin.uecker ( talk) 04:22, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
Citation needed. -- 89.210.239.207 ( talk) 12:40, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
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Currently, it seems that Microsoft had already acquired Nokia, as declared in news, social websites and even an user Drew also says that. But two days ago, I edited both articles i.e Nokia and Stephen Elop (mainly those sentences of acquisition), and made the sentences from future tense to past tense along with correcting grammatical errors. What I found that, my edits were reverted back.
Why ?
Himanis Das
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11:50, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
I'm here at the request of an RfC; how may I help? Basket Feudalist 12:33, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
I have commenced a revision of the History section, as the grammar was poor, the tone was promotional, information was repeated, and a questionable citation was used. I understand that it may be difficult to garner reputable sources for this section, so we may have to pare it down? I will continue to look at the entire section, as I only revised one sub-section, but it would be great if any copyeditors with expertise can contribute.-- Soulparadox ( talk) 03:18, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
What will happen to the Nokia page after Microsoft takes its (Nokia's) largest division? this page seems to be all about mobile, and after Microsoft has taken that part of the company, over 80% of the page will not be relevant with the company anymore, will it be moved to the history section? personally I'd suggest a model more akin to I.B.M. ( International Business Machines) where all the previous industries have an epitome in the history section, and a more detailed page in the actual history page of the company, while the rest of the page concentrates more on what's actually still in the company. Another possible model is that of Motorola, though that is completely different, and happened under different circumstances, also how will the pages relevant to the sold off divisions look after the deal, most will need to be updated to match it. Another model would be splitting the page into a mobile division (incl. history) and one for the company, though that would be a bad idea as there is no page for Nokia's mobile division other than this one, so I want to suggest to follow the I.B.M. model. -- 86.81.201.94 ( talk) 10:34, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
As this article is being restructured, here's a permanent link to the last revision which contained all of the D&S information: [2]
-- RaviC ( talk) 07:29, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
To my knowledge, there was no N9 with that color ( http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Nokia_N9.jpg/220px-Nokia_N9.jpg ) The awailable colors were Cyan, Magenta, Black and White. I think the picture should be changed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.90.110.125 ( talk) 08:51, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
I suggest that we'll move all current and recent phone content to the Microsoft Mobile page, and update the employee number and the list of staff (Elop doesn't work for Nokia anymore, he's under Microsoft now), under divisions many units are placed that are no longer a part of Nokia but sold to Microsoft, can someone please revise most of the page? -- 87.208.17.6 ( talk) 09:46, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
I suggest a potential split of all non relevant content such as various mobile telephone-related sections into a history of Nokia article modelled after the present History of Microsoft and History of Apple Inc. articles, the level of details into the mobile telephone related business is redundant to the present company and should only be explained as an epitome, while more detailed information of Nokia S40, Symbian, MeeGo, Windows Phone, Etc. can go into the history article. Sincerely, -- 86.81.201.94 ( talk) 11:23, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
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As Nokia mostly is known for their phones, one would expect this article about Nokia to at least have a link to a list/article about Nokia phones. Ragnar Ekre ( talk) 01:57, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
At its peak in 2000, Nokia alone accounted for 4% of the country's GDP, 21% of total exports and 70% of the Helsinki Stock Exchange market capital.
Quoted with no context at all. Sad. — MaxEnt 22:22, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
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