Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Nokia Corporation



is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki.
It has 132,000 employees.
It has locations in 120 countries.
It is the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones: its global device market share was 23% in the second quarter 2011.
It was founded 104 years ago.
It is Worldwide.
The predecessors of the modern Nokia were the Nokia Company, Finnish Rubber Works Ltd and Finnish Cable Works Ltd.
Nokia's history starts in 1865 when mining engineer Fredrik Idestam established a groundwood pulp mill on the banks of the Tammerkoski rapids in the town of Tampere, in southwestern Finland in Russian Empire and started manufacturing paper.
The company decided to leave consumer electronics behind in the 1990s and focused solely on the fastest growing segments in telecommunications.
The three companies, which had been jointly owned since 1922, were merged to form a new industrial conglomerate, Nokia Corporation in 1967 and paved the way for Nokia's future as a global corporation.
Nokia was one of the key developers of GSM, the second-generation mobile technology which could carry data as well as voice traffic.
There are also Nokia computers.
There are Nokia Communicator.
The sizes has been getting smaller every time.
The new phones are