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In business since 1865, '''Nokia''' is a [[Finland|Finnish]] [[Acme Products|conglomerate]] best known for its [[Cell Phone|cellphones]]. Besides mobile devices, Nokia has at one point or another dabbled into various industries such as telecommunications, information technology, consumer electronics, paper and tyres. They also made major contributions to the mobile telephony industry, assisting with the development of the GSM, 3G and LTE standards (and currently in 5G).▼
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▲In business since 1865, Nokia is a [[Finland|Finnish]] [[Acme Products|conglomerate]] best known for its cellphones. Besides mobile devices, Nokia has at one point or another dabbled into various industries such as telecommunications, information technology, consumer electronics, paper and tyres. They also made major contributions to the mobile telephony industry, assisting with the development of the GSM, 3G and LTE standards (and currently in 5G).
Nokia, especially its mobile phone business, was a source of pride for Finns,
The Nokia mobile phone brand was revived in 2016 when they partnered with HMD Global (now known simply as HMD), a company run by former Nokia executives. HMD develops and markets phones through the Nokia brand under licence, and unlike the Nokia of yore, which owned factories in Finland and Asia, has its production outsourced to FIH Mobile, a division of Foxconn. Phones marketed by HMD Global are either marketed as "pure, secure and up-to-date" in reference to them using a stock Android interface rather than a heavily-modified distribution, or capitalise on [[Nostalgia Filter|nostalgia]] as in the case of their revivals of the 3310, 8110 and more recently the 5310. Besides telecommunications equipment and smartphones, Nokia also exists as a [https://www.nokia.com/licensing/brand-licensing/ brand licensing firm], allowing interested parties to manufacture and sell products using the Nokia brand name under licence, while at the same time leveraging the Nokia brand's iconic status. One such case is when the Indian online store Flipkart started selling smart TVs under license from Nokia.
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* [[Acme Products]]: At one point Nokia operated in various industries since its foundation, having first established as a pulp mill and later sold products like tyres and cabling, gas masks, footwear, televisions and chemicals. They eventually just settled on telecommunications, divesting most of their other ventures into separate companies like Nokian Tyres.
* [[Console Wars]]: They attempted to compete against the [[Game Boy Advance]] with the [[N-Gage]]. Needless to say, Nintendo won.
* [[Four Is Death]]: There's no Nokia 4000 series e.g. a "Nokia 4110", or a S60 Fourth Edition for that matter, largely due to them having a large presence in Asia where tetraphobia is observed in Oriental cultures. Though somehow they did release
* [[Iconic Logo]]: Many a cellphone user from the 90s to 2000s would have the Nokia logo permanently burned into their heads.
* [[Made of Indestructium]]: Nokias from the late 90s to early 2000s, especially the 3310, gained memetic status for their durability.
* [[Mobile Phone Game]]: The [[Trope Maker]] with their version of [[Snake]], first programmed in 1997 by Taneli Armanto and bundled with the Nokia 6110. Since then, various incarnations have been developed and released which often came pre-installed with their phones; unofficial remakes were also released for smartphone platforms as well.
* [[Product Placement]]: Especially in the 2000s when they spared no expense paying various companies and studios to promote their handsets. Music videos featuring Nokia phones were quite common, such as in [[Mary J. Blige]]'s "Be Without You" where she brandished [https://youtu.be/8XNaPX6MKlU?t=70 a Nokia 7370], the short-lived [[Danity Kane]]'s "Show Stopper" where [https://youtu.be/mO6J_UgmGxA?t=116 a billboard] for the Nokia 8800 (specifically, the North American 8801 variant with different GSM bands) was shown, and most infamously the Nokia 9210 used by [[Kelly Rowland]] in [[Nelly]]'s "Dilemma", where she attempted to text Nelly using a [[Epic Fail|spreadsheet application]] which was widely ridiculed more than a decade later.<ref>Most sources identify the application used as "Microsoft Excel"; however, the actual app used was the default Symbian Sheet app that came with the device as [https://www.androidauthority.com/newsletters/da-november-4-2021/ pointed out] by an ex-Symbian developer.</ref> Another particularly blatant case was in the ''[[Tony Hawk's Pro Skater]]'' spinoff ''Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure'' where a quest in the Olliewood level involving a ringtone on a Nokia 5100 had an unskippable cutscene with some of the characters dancing to it. Though it certainly didn't pay off as while Nokia is extremely popular in Eurasian territories, they weren't as successful in America.
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