X-Nico

78 unusual facts about Nokia


Andreas Troeger

He recently traveled to Cambodia as director of photography to shoot and edit a documentary about Robert Clark (National Geographic Photographer) using a Nokia cellphone camera to document Phnom Penh and Siam Reep (Angkor Wat).

Asphalt 3: Street Rules

Asphalt 3: Street Rules is a racing video game that was released in 2006 on Java-based mobile phones, in 2007 on non-Java based mobile phones and was also released in 2008 for Nokia's N-Gage 2.0 gaming platform.

Bigfoot Bonkers

This type of game appeared in many variants on many computers and consoles over the years, and was popular on mobile phones like Nokia many years later as one of the default games called "Snake".

Billy Jayne

In the late 90s he began to star in and direct big budget commercials for trademarks such as Dr Pepper, Nokia, Snickers and AT&T.

Center for Knowledge Societies

In 2007 Nokia commissioned CKS to carry out a study into the effect of mobile phones on economic and social life in rural areas.

Chikako Fushimi

Born in Osaka Prefecture, her career-high has so far been a 3rd place finish in the 2005 Nokia Snowboard FIS World Cup held in Canada.

David E. Potter

In 1998, using Psion’s experience in small mobile operating systems, David led the creation of Symbian Limited in partnership with Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola and Matsushita to create the operating system standard for mobile wireless devices - now known as Symbian.

Digia

In 2011, Digia acquired the commercial licensing business for Qt from Nokia.

English, baby!

English, baby! has content-sharing partnerships with companies such Nokia in China, and HOOP Magazine in Japan.

Erwin Olaf

He has been commissioned to photograph advertising campaigns for large international companies such as Levi's, Microsoft and Nokia.

Evan Winiker

Aside from managing and playing in bands, Winiker has also curated music for Soho House, Nokia, RocNation, Raptor House, The Sundance Institute, AFMDA and many others.

Flexible display

Nokia first conceptualized the application of flexible OLED displays in mobile phone with the Nokia Morph concept mobile phone.

Goom Radio

A Goom Radio application can be downloaded for free on the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, BlackBerry, Nokia, and Android.

Greg Costikyan

Costikyan worked on game design for many years, including writing and consulting for Nokia.

HC Keski-Uusimaa

In their first season in Mestis they finished 12th and lost to K-Vantaa in the playouts, but won their way out of being relegated back to Suomi-sarja by accumulating a 5 win, 1 overtime win, 0 loss record against RoKi, KeuPa HT, and Pyry Nokia from the Suomi-sarja in the qualification round.

Human Grand Prix IV: F1 Dream Battle

Another example of this graphic clarity is shown on the race cars themselves, the most notable being Red Bull (on Saubers) and Nokia (on Tyrrells) logos.

Ideaworks Game Studio

Ideaworks3D’s reputation increased significantly with the launch of Nokia's N-Gage in 2004, for which the company developed 4 launch titles that utilised innovative multi-player and network features.

It's OK, It's All Good

The song was used in a music video competition by the channel and Nokia, and the video that has been released features the contributions of various fans across India who sent in their videos.

Jed S. Rakoff

Motorola Credit Corporation and Nokia brought suit against the Uzan family of Turkey.

Jedem das Seine

Several modern advertising campaigns in the German language, including ads for Nokia, REWE grocery stores, Burger King, and Merkur Bank have been marred by controversy after using the phrase Jedem das Seine or Jedem den Seinen.

Jeff Hedges

In 1995, Jeff left skating and began a career in the video game industry, working as a tester at Sega for 10 years before moving on to Nokia.

Jucu

In 2007, Nokia started a €200 million investment in Jucu, building a cellphone factory that has begun production in 2008 and in 2010 it's possible that an American pharmaceutical company will invest another €210 million to make a factory.

On 29 September 2011, Nokia announced that the production will be closed and more than 2000 employees will be laid off by the end of 2012 as a measure of optimizing production processes.

Jules B. Kroll

They first helped Nokia and Motorola find $2.7 billion that had been invested with the Uzan family in Turkey.

KD Player

Skins made for KD Player are known to have conflicting support issues with Nokia phones although this has not been clearly explained.

KDE Software Compilation 4

Nokia adopted Phonon for multimedia use in Qt 4.4 and are developing backends for Gstreamer, Windows and OS X in the KDE SVN repository under the LGPL.

Kinshuk Mahajan

He has also done commercial modeling for Bausch & Lomb, FDDI, and print modeling for Airtel, Nokia, British Council, Pedigree and GNIIT.

Kolmoskanava

Kolmoskanava (also known as TV3 and informally as Kolmonen) was a Finnish television station owned and operated by Oy Kolmostelevisio Ab, a joint venture between MTV Oy, YLE and Nokia.

owner= Oy Kolmostelevisio Ab (joint venture between MTV Oy, YLE and Nokia

Konecranes

The current CEO Pekka Lundmark (2005-) joined KCI Konecranes in 2004, before that he worked e.g. for Hackman and Nokia.

Lahti Institute of Design

The school has during its history educated many professionals in key positions around the world in such companies as Honda, Toyota, Apple, Marimekko, Nokia and H&M.

Marten

The Finnish communications company Nokia derives its name, via the river Nokianvirta, from a type of marten locally known as the nokia.

Martti Häikiö

His doctoral dissertation concerns the British politics on Finland before and during the Winter War and has thereafter published a lot of popular works on modern Finnish history and corporate history, such as Nokia, the inside story (2002).

Mehul Shah

Mehul has also done commercial and print work for Dell, Comerica Bank, The Texas State Lottery, Chuck E. Cheese, Nokia, MTV India, J. C. Penney, and Motorola.

Microsoft Office Mobile

On August 12, 2009, it was announced that Office Mobile would also be released for the Symbian platform as a joint agreement between Microsoft and Nokia.

Mobile app

An app store for Nokia phones was launched internationally in May 2009.

Nancheng District

Many large international enterprises have set up hubs in Nancheng, such as Walmart, Nokia, Nestle, etc., and from the list 12 of them are the world’s largest 500 enterprises.

NHS.net

# Nokia devices: All Nokia devices with an Exchange client are able to connect, however most models do not support encryption and therefore their use breaches NHSmail security policies.

Nicholas Frankau

He no longer acts regularly but lives and works in Cambridge working as a programmer for various technology companies (previously Nokia & Symbian).

Noisettes discography

C ^ The music video for "Saturday Night" was made up of recordings by fans using only Nokia mobile devices, at an exclusive live performance in East London.

Nokia network monitor

Nokia network monitor or Monitor Mode is a hidden mode on most Nokia cell phones used to measure network parameters.

Nokia Revival

:The Nokia referred to in this article is the town Nokia in Finland, also the birthplace of the Nokia corporation.

Nokia Revival (also known as Nokia Missio) is a charismatic Christian movement originated in Finland in the town of Nokia.

Nokian Footwear

In 1967, Suomen Kumitehdas and Suomen Kaapelitehdas (Finnish Cable Works) merged with the forest and power industry company Nokia Aktiebolag (Nokia Company) to form Nokia Corporation, the current telecommunications corporation.

After several years of production in Helsinki, the factory was moved to the town of Nokia.

NQ Mobile Inc.

NQ Mobile also cooperated with Nokia and Sony and both pre-installed NQ products in their companywide mobile phones.

Omni Mobile

Omni Mobile is a Novell GroupWise wireless email client for Palm, Pocket PC, Windows Mobile, Sony Ericcsson and Nokia Series 60 PDAs and PDA Smart Phones.

One Astor Plaza

After a nine month $21 million renovation, the space reopened as the Nokia Theatre at Times Square.

One Block Off the Grid

He was also the chairman of Serious Business and the founder of SF Green, Powerset (now owned by Microsoft) and Loudfire (now owned by Nokia).

OpenedHand

The latter is heavily used in the customized UIs of Maemo and Moblin, embedded Linux distributions from Nokia and Intel, respectively.

Operator logo

An industry has sprung up around the use of these logos, and around ring tones, tailored towards phones, such as those made by Nokia, which can receive new logos in a text message.

Osakeyhtiö

Although some, especially larger, Finnish companies now use English as their corporate language (with Nokia being the most notable example), most Finnish companies use only Oy in the company name.

Pathway to Glory

Pathway to Glory is a tactical turn-based game for the Nokia N-Gage, by Nokia and RedLynx, released in late 2004.

Pitty

Besides being released on CD, DVD, and DualDisc, the record was also released in a unit cell model, the result of a partnership with Nokia.

RioPort

RioPort's cloud based music service powered e-tailer websites such as MTV, Hewlett Packard, Virgin Music, Yahoo and supported MP3 Player consumer electronics devices such as from Samsung, Rio MP3 Player, Sanyo, and the first music phone from Nokia.

Robi Domingo

Domingo is also an endorser, and among the brands that he has endorsed, is still endorsing or is affiliated with at present time are: Nokia, Bench, Coca-Cola, Jollibee, Skechers, Globe Telecom, Adidas, Wade Shoes, Gold's Gym, RayBan, The Body Shop, Your Own Time and Folded & Hung.

Sanoodi

The range of integrated mobile applications for Windows Mobile, Nokia and Research In Motion devices allows users to record routes and add geotagged media and interact with other users whilst out and about.

SBS Transit


SBS2696E, SBS2779A and SBS2812L was previously Nokia advertisement-concept buses with special interiors.

Seaclose Park

For 16 December 2009 the park was transformed to a Winter Wonderland after coming top in a competition held by Nokia with nearly 2,400 votes to have it held on the island.

Sepideh Farsi

It was shot entirely with a Nokia camera phone because of the government restrictions over shooting a film.

Shaul Elovitch

Next, in 1993, Elovitch signed a distribution deal with Nokia making him their exclusive distributor in Israel.

Squircle

Nokia is closely associated with the squircle, having used it as a touchpad button in many phones.

Stickwitu

Throughout the video, the Pussycat Dolls are seen talking on Nokia mobile phones, presumably to their partners.

Street marketing

Also, in Madrid and Barcelona, Nokia developed a campaign called “Avestruz” (“Ostrich”) to promote the 5500 and 5700 mobiles.

Sunnyvale Town Center

As of March 2013, the only active tenants of the downtown proper (apart from Target and Macy's) are Apple and Nokia, which have occupied office space along Mathilda Ave.

Super Inggo 1.5: Ang Bagong Bangis

He will meet Lola Facunda, the mother of Pacita & Super Inday; as well as new friends such as Bokia, the talking cellphone (a play on the cellphone brand, Nokia ) ; and Chin-Chin Tsinelas, Budong's crush.

System Rush

Nokia have released the follow-up System Rush: Evolution, which was also developed by Ideaworks Game Studio on the Nokia N93 and N95.

System Rush is a futuristic racing game for the Nokia N-Gage platform.

Taiyo Yuden

Primarily pioneered the assembly and mass production of several semiconductors for various companies namely Sony, Nokia, Panasonic, Matsushita Electronics, Seagate, etc.

Toy2R

Additionally, Toy2r has been commissioned to create exclusive Qee figures for such companies as Adidas, DKNY, Mitsubishi, Xbox 360, Nokia, Sony, Clutter Magazine, and Starbucks.

Udita Goswami

Udita Goswami began her career as a model working for brands such as Pepsi, Titan Watches and Nokia among others.

Uma Música

Second single from the album "Redenção", was recorded in São Paulo between April 29 and May 1 premiered on Domínio MTV and beyond the participation of the band, the video includes the participation of the Capilé (lead singer Sugar Kane and friend Fresno) that is paired with the romantic protagonist of the clip, which is a girl in search of a song that fits with it, the video was a promo for the Nokia phone.

University of Ulm

Research centers of companies like Daimler, BMW, Siemens and in the past also Nokia, AEG, have been established at the site, in addition to institutes of the university focusing on applied research.

Vasile Marchiș

After a year at Nokia, Marchiş moved to another Ykkonen club, Pallo-Iirot, where he played for two years and scored his first league goal in Finland.

Verner Weckman

Weckman worked as engineer in Russia 1909–1921 and later in Suomen Kaapelitehdas Oy or Finnish Cable Works (which in 1967 merged with two other companies to form Nokia Corporation, the current telecommunications company), where he served as longtime executive director until 1955.

VMessage

The format is used by multiple vendors, including Nokia, Siemens, and Palm, Inc., and is similar to the commonly used vCard format.

Wild Young Hearts

A music video for "Saturday Nights" was made up of recordings by fans using only Nokia mobile devices, at an exclusive live performance in East London.

Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Suzhou Industrial Park is the location for more than 2100 international companies, more than 100 of which are Fortune 500 companies, including Siemens, L'Oréal and Nokia.


ARM9

Nokia (like Nokia 5220 XpressMusic, Nokia N-Gage and almost all N-Series Smartphones at 100-330 MHz)

BB5

Base Band 5, a generation of the baseband implemented in the latest Nokia mobile phones

CoreConnect

As such it is licensed by over 1500 electronics companies such as Cadence, Ericsson, Lucent, Nokia, Siemens and Synopsys.

Cyriac Roeding

He later co-founded the mobile marketing firm 12snap in Munich, London and Milan, which worked with Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Nokia, L'Oreal and others and won the first Lion Awards for mobile creative concepts in Cannes.

Deirdre Bolton

In recent months, Bolton has interviewed Wall Street players, government official, key decision makers and sports personalities such as PIMCO strategic adviser Richard Clarida, Carlyle Group Co-Founder David Rubenstein, Sam Zell, Roger Altman, Wilbur Ross, Nokia CFO Rick Simonson, President Barack Obama’s chief economist Christina Romer, Congressman Elijah Cummings, Martina Navratilova, Billie Jean King and Terrell Owens.

Eldon Group

Some of the company’s major customers worldwide are Ericsson, Siemens, Nokia, Alcatel, Olivetti, Honeywell, ABB, GE, SHELL, ESSO, Carrier, OTIS, Volvo and Ford.

Erkki Kurenniemi

He subsequently worked as a designer of control systems for industrial robots at Oy W. Rosenlew Ab (1976–1978), and as a designer of industrial automation and robotic systems at Nokia’s cable machinery division (1980–1986).

Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010

Eesti Laul 2010 was held on 12 March at the Nokia Concert Hall in Tallinn, hosted by Estonian actors Ott Sepp and Märt Avandi.

Henrik Ehrnrooth

Farther Casimir Ehrnrooth (1931) has worked as CEO in Kaukas paper factory (today UPM-Kymmene), and Board od Directors of Union Bank (today Nordea), and as chairman of Nokia (1992–1999).

Hervanta

Nokia, Intel and many other companies have offices in Hervanta.

Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain

Kevin Hart performed a stand-up special at the Nokia Theater at L.A. Live in Los Angeles.

Marko Ahtisaari

In 2006 he left Nokia and joined his former boss, Nokia CEO Pekka Ala-Pietilä to start an advertisement-supported mobile network Blyk.

Metadata Working Group

Metadata Working Group was formed in 2006 by Adobe Systems, Apple, Canon, Microsoft and Nokia.

Naveen Selvadurai

Naveen graduated with degrees from King's College London in the UK and Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the US, and went to work with Lucent, Sony, Nokia and Sun Microsystems before he started his mobile social-networking venture Foursquare, along with Dennis Crowley.

Nokia E6

Preinstalled applications on the Nokia E6-00 include JoikuSpot Premium (mobile WiFi hotspot), World Traveler, F-secure Mobile Security and QuickOffice.

Nokia N93

The phone had a 3.2-megapixel camera, Carl Zeiss optics and 3x optical zoom (the first Nokia phone to have it) as well as a 30 fps 640×480 (VGA) MPEG-4 video recording capability.

Nokia N93i

The Nokia N93i features a 3.2-megapixel camera, Carl Zeiss optics, 3x optical zoom and digital video stabilization.

Nokia X

@evleaks later tweeted that the name of the phone is Nokia X.

OpenMAX

Promoting members in 2008 were AMD, Apple, ARM, Creative, Dell Inc, Ericsson, Freescale, Imagination Technologies Group plc, Intel, IBM, Motorola, Nokia, Nvidia Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, SK Telecom, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc and Texas Instruments.

Paavo Rantanen

He also served in Nokia Executive Board 1988-1995, until he became a non-aligned Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Esko Aho's cabinet following the resignation of Heikki Haavisto.

Paragon Software Group

Paragon Software provides technology to a number of companies and partners including Cisco, Dell, Toshiba, NEC, Siemens, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, and more.

Shaul Elovitch

A year later Cellcom entered Israel's cellular network arena and became a client of Eurocom's Nokia phones, and together the two rivaled Pelephone's Motorola-based dominance of Israel's mobile phone market.

SPB Software

SPB Software works with phone makers and mobile operators such as Huawei, HTC, Toshiba, (now Fujitsu), ZTE, Starhub, O2, K-Touch, Megafon, Acer Inc., HP, Nokia, MTS, Swisscom in various countries providing customized versions of its software and optimized applications and for particular devices.

Stefan Lindfors

In addition to design, Lindfors has also made short films, TV programmes, commercials (including: Nokia, and DNA Oy) and pop videos (including HIM's ”Funeral of Hearts” - which received music magazine Kerrang!’s award for "Best Music Video 2004").

Turku Science Park

Its membership includes approximately 300 companies operating in Turku, including e.g. Nokia and Fujitsu.

Yamigo

::"We would like to stress the fact that we see a benefit in using some chat clients over others. For example, most of the existing Nokia and Ericsson phones use a compressed version of the data exchange protocol, known as WBXML, while Motorola chat clients use plain XML. Motorola generate data transfers ten times higher than Nokia and Sony-Ericsson phones."