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Mobile Phone | Nokia | Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational leading corporation in communications. The predecessors of the modern Nokia were the Nokia Company (Nokia Aktiebolag), Finnish Rubber Works Ltd (Suomen Gummitehdas Oy) and Finnish Cable Works Ltd (Suomen Kaapelitehdas Oy).

Nokias history starts in 1865 when the mining engineer Fredrik Idestam established a pulp mill ground on the banks of the rapids Tammerkoski in the city of Tampere, Finland and the Southwest began making paper. In 1868, another plant Idestam built near the town of Nokia, fifteen kilometers (nine miles) west of Tampere in Nokianvirta River, which had better resources for hydropower generation. In 1871, with the help of his close friend Idestam State Mechelin Leon, renamed and transformed his company into a limited company, thus founding the company Nokia, the name is still known today.

Toward the end of the 19th century, Mechelins wishes to expand into the electricity business were at first thwarted by Idestams opposition. However, Idestams retirement from the management of the company in 1896 allowed Mechelin to become the companys chairman (from 1898 until 1914) and sell most shareholders on his plans, thus realizing his vision. In 1902, Nokia added electricity generation to its business activities.

Nokia Corporation is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, Finland, a town near the capital, Helsinki. Nokia is dedicated to the manufacture of mobile internet and convergence and communications, with more than 132,000 employees in 120 countries, sales in over 150 countries worldwide and an annual turnover of over € 42 million and profits exploitation of € 2 million dollars in 2010. It is the worlds largest maker of mobile phones, its market share of the devices was 31% in the fourth quarter of 2010, but fell below 30% in the first quarter of 2011. Estimated market share of Nokia in the converged mobile device market was 31% in the fourth quarter, compared to 38% in the third quarter of 2010. Nokia produces mobile devices for every major market segment and protocol, including GSM, CDMA and W-CDMA (UMTS). Nokia provides Internet services such as applications, games, music, maps, media and messaging platform Ovi.

Subsidiary of Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks produces telecommunications network equipment, solutions and services. Nokia is also engaged in providing free digital map information and navigation services through its wholly owned subsidiary of NAVTEQ. Nokia also has a greater dependence on England duo based company know for its Corporation Symbian mobile operating systems and OVI for its mobile software development based on the distribution, which has made the best-selling Nokia mobile phones selling in recent years.

Nokia has sites for research and development, manufacture and sales in many countries throughout the world. As of December 2010, Nokia had R&D presence in 16 countries and employed 35,870 people in research and development, representing approximately 27% of the groups total workforce. The Nokia Research Center, founded in 1986, is Nokias industrial research unit consisting of about 500 researchers, engineers and scientists. It has sites in seven countries: Finland, China, India, Kenya, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Besides its research centers, in 2001 Nokia founded (and owns) INdT – Nokia Institute of Technology, a R&D institute located in Brazil. Nokia operates a total of 9 manufacturing facilities located at Salo, Finland; Manaus, Brazil; Cluj, Romania; Beijing and Dongguan , China; Komárom, Hungary; Chennai, India; Reynosa, Mexico; and Masan, South Korea. Nokias industrial design department is headquartered in Soho in London, UK with significant satellite offices in Helsinki, Finland and Calabasas, California in the US.

Nokia is a public limited-liability company listed on the Helsinki, Frankfurt, and New York stock exchanges. Nokia plays a very large role in the economy of Finland; it is by far the largest Finnish company, accounting for about a third of the market capitalization of the Helsinki Stock Exchange (OMX Helsinki) as of 2007, a unique situation for an industrialized country. It is an important employer in Finland and several small companies have grown into large ones as its partners and subcontractors. Nokia increased Finlands GDP by more than 1.5% in 1999 alone. In 2004 Nokias share of the Finnish GDP was 3.5% and accounted for almost a quarter of Finlands exports in 2003.

Finns have consistently ranked Nokia as one of the best Finnish brands. In 2008, it was the 27th most respected brand among Finns, down from sixth place in 2007. The Nokia brand, valued at $29.5 billion, is listed as the eight most valuable global brand in the Interbrand/BusinessWeek Best Global Brands list of 2010 (first non-US company). It is the number one brand in Asia (as of 2007) and Europe (as of 2009), the 41st most admirable company worldwide in Fortunes Worlds Most Admired Companies list of 2010 (third in Network and Other Communications Equipment, seventh non-US company), and the worlds 120th largest company as measured by revenue in Fortune Global 500 list of 2010. As of 2010, AMR Research ranks Nokias global supply chain No. 19 in the world. In July 2010, Nokia reported a drop in profits by 40%, which turned into an operating loss of EUR 487 million in Q2 2011. In the global smartphone rivalry, Nokia held the 3rd place in 2Q2011, trailing behind Samsung and Apple.

On 11 February 2011, Nokia announced a partnership with Microsoft which will mean most future Nokia smart phones will be powered by the Windows Phone 7 operating system.

Nokia House, Nokias headquarters was located on the Gulf of Bothnia in Keilaniemi, Espoo, built between 1995 and 1997. It is the workplace of Nokia employees over 1,000. The first Nokia mobile phone using the Microsoft Windows platform will be introduced in 2011, but delivery bulk will be set loose in the 2012. - Mobile Phone

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