The trip of Nokia started exactly 150 years ago when Mining Engineer Fredrik Idestam started the creation of the first wood pulp mill in Temmerkoski Rapids in south-west Finland. It was May 12, 1865.
150 years later and Nokia is still a force to be reckoned with even after its semi-sale to Microsoft.
The name of the company was discovered when its founder, Fredrik Idestam, opened a second mill on the banks of the Nokianvirta River. So came the name Nokia Ab 1871.
Few Nokia friends may know that 1967, the company had five businesses, but only one had something to do with the telecommunications industry.
Obviously, this makes sense since the first mobile phone appeared six years later, 1973.
Η Nokia Corporation, was the result of the merger of Nokia AB, Finnish Rubber Works, and Cable Works, which had as its object the rubber, the cables, the forestry, and the production of electricity.
The Finnish company has entered the 1960 telecommunication equipment market. It took more than 30 years to grow into industry but the first GSM call became 1991 with a Nokia phone through the network created by the Finnish company.
In the early 90s, Nokia decided to make telecommunications the core of its business, and as it turned out later, it was a wise decision. By 1998, Nokia was already the world leader in mobile phones.
Beginning with 2006, Nokia started to acquire companies specializing in mapping technology, such as gate5 and NAVTEQ.
After six years of development, 2012, Nokia launched its own map service called HERE, which is now a worthy competitor of Google Maps.
2011, Nokia announced that it has decided to work with Microsoft to try to save its mobile business, which collapsed due to a lack of software and device innovation.
Instead of choosing Android, Nokia preferred Windows Phone, which turned out to be a bad idea. On September 3, the Finnish company announced that it would sell part of its services to Microsoft and under the deal, it could not develop another smartphone by the end of 2015.
Today, Nokia Corporation has a new vision and strategy, which focus on three businesses: Nokia Networks, HERE Maps, and Nokia Technologies.
The last two εβδομάδες, κυκλοφορούν φήμες που θέλουν την Νokia να σχεδιάζει να επιστρέψει στην αγορά smartphone το 2016.
Despite the fact that Nokia has denied the rumors, the company's friends continue to dream of returning.
So many years in Nokia.
With information from SoftPedia
