Nokia found out in year 1865 it was known for Paper Mill, Nokia got success then they diversified in multiple business like “cable, tires, rubber boots, tv, phones.
Nokia starts its smartphone journey by 1991 and start making first GSM mobiles. Nokia Got Tremendously successful and become world’s most selling mobile phone brand.
Nokia history in india
In Year 1981 Nokia launched first phone-called “1G” which featured big antenna with small display comes in formfactor of “candy bar”, support of 900 Mah battery.
On “July 31, 1995” India’s first phone call was made by Bengal Chief minister Jyoti Basu.
Tele communication services in india
“ESSAR” was the first private company who start “GSM (Global System for Mobile communication)” in India specifically in Delhi Region, on that time Essar was new in telecom business so they started joint venture with Swisscom and Expand service area in multi states. This companies is now known as “Vodafone Idea ltd”
Nokia history Time line
Nokia Operating Systems
- Nokia launched with “NokiaOS” was the first OS developed by Nokia, this OS does not have proper storage management it stores messages and contacts on sim cards.
- Nokia Communicator 9000 comes with “GEOS”. (Nokia Communicator comes with AMD & Intel Processor which clock on 33 MHz).
- Rebuild of “NOS (Nokia OS with intelligent System Architecture)” in year 1999 with “Nokia 7110”.
- Year 2000 comes and Nokia release “Symbian OS” which is replacement of “GEOS” and “NOS” which runs for decades with little bit of upgradation according to devices.
- Nokia launched its tablet in 2009, they are experimenting with Linux operating system and build first Linux based operating system called “Maemo OS”
- In year 2011 Nokia redeveloped Maemo OS and developed new “Meego OS”
- Year 2014 Nokia was occupied by Microsoft and they start rolling out “Windows Operating system” (since Nokia based on “ARM processor” and Microsoft is PC OS developer “X86 architecture” those apps are not working properly on Mobile app).
- HMD bought Nokia in 2016 and start rolling out “Android OS”.
- HMD use NOS in Feature phone
Nokia’s popular phones
Nokia 3310
Launched on 1 September 2000, on that time Nokia come with rare features like Calculator, torch stop watch, Nokia network Monitor and games like snakes II, space impact, Bantumi.
Nokia 3310 support Proprietary Series 20 software.
Nokia 6233
In 2005 launched Nokia launched Nokia 6233 one of best-selling phone comes with features like music file support (AAC, MP3, WMA), 2 MP Camera, support up 2GB of Micro SD card, ARM9 289MHZ processor, 3G network Support.
Nokia 6233 support Proprietary Series 40 software.
Nokia N900
In November 11th 2009 Nokia launched Nokia N900 Smartphone which is rolled out with Linux based Operating system “Maemo 5”.
This device features with email, web browser, 5 MP camera, portable Media player, calculator, game console, word processor, VoiP, 32GB SD card support.
Why Nokia Failed?
Nokia Growing Good until in 2007 when smartphone market wasn’t more than 10%. in January 2007 Apple launched it’s first “Iphone” which is having great app store, typing experience with multitasking performance which makes it more fluent. One year later many other brands launched their devices with “Android OS”. Even nokia was dominating then but they are still on Symbian OS.
After 2010 many brands launching their devices with “android OS” but nokia is still sticking to their Symbian OS here problem is Android App store is Growing Rapidly while Symbian OS is lacking that.
In 2011 Nokia Collab with Microsoft to beat “Android” and “IOS”, they rolling out device named “Lumia” with windows OS but windows also failed with “ARM” based architecture for software old support.