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| The roots of Nokia go back to the year 1865 with the establishment of a forest industry enterprise inSouth-Western Finland by mining engineer Fredrik Idestam. Elsewhere, the year 1898 witnessed the foundation of Finnish Rubber Works Ltd, and in 1912 Finnish Cable Works began operations. Gradually, the ownership of these two companies and Nokia began to shift into hands of just a few owners. Finally in 1967 the three companies were merged to form Nokia Corporation. |
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| Nokia is a world leader in mobile communications, driving the growth and sustainability of the broader mobility industry. Nokia connects people to each other and the information that matters to them with easy-to-use and innovative products like mobile phones, devices and solutions for imaging, games, media and businesses. Nokia provides equipment, solutions and services for network operators and corporations. Nokia is a broadly held company with listings on four major exchanges. Nokia comprises four business groups and two horizontal groups. |
Nokia's product portfolio includes features and functionality designed to appeal to the mass market, such as megapixel cameras, music players and color screens. During the year ended December 31,2005, Mobile Phones introduced its first 3G/WCDMA products, which included the Nokia 6280, the Nokia 6233, the Nokia 6234 (for Vodafone) and the Nokia 6282 (for the Americas). During 2005, Nokia shipped a total of 28.5 million smart phones and more than 40 million mobile devices with an integrated music player. The Mobile Phones business group has five units: Broad Appeal, Entry, Lifestyle Products (formerly known as Focused Appeal), CDMA and Vertu.
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| During 2005, the products introduced by the Multimedia segment included Nokia 6630 and Nokia 66803G/WCDMA devices, and the Nokia 6600 and the Nokia 7610 imaging devices. In April 2005, Nokia announced a sub brand, the Nokia Nseries, for a category of advanced multimedia computers that offer consumers the ability to shoot video and still pictures, print-quality images, watch television, listen to music, and access the Web and e-mail. In addition to supporting 3G/WCDMA connectivity, certain Nokia Nseries multimedia computers also feature non-cellular connectivity, including WLAN, frequency modulation (FM) radio, digital video broadcasting-handheld (DVB-H) and Bluetooth. The Multimedia segment has two units, the Multimedia Computers unit and the Multimedia Experiences unit. |
The Enterprise Solutions segment consists of four main units, Mobile Devices, Mobility Solutions,
Security and Mobile Connectivity, and Sales, Marketing and Services. The Mobile Devices unit
produces mobile devices specifically designed for business use. The Company's product portfolio contains devices with both cellular, such as GSM and 3G/WCDMA, and non-cellular connectivity,such as WLAN. Its products include the Nokia E60, the Nokia E61 and the Nokia E70, as well as theNokia 9300, Nokia 9300i and Nokia 9500 devices. These mobile devices are designed to address the security and manageability concerns of corporate IT departments. The Mobility Solutions unit is developing a suite of software solutions. The unit also works with external vendors, such as Research in Motion, Microsoft, IBM, Good, Visto and Seven, to make Nokia's mobile devices compatible with their solutions. In addition, the unit works with vendors, such as Avaya and Cisco on other applications, such as connecting the Company's mobile devices to corporate fixed-line telephone networks over WLAN technology. |
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