Nokia’s origins, though unthinkable, lie in the rubber, cable and paper industries. A Finnish Engineer by the name of Fredrik Idestam opened a paper mill by the river Nokianvirta, in southern Finland and soon obtained success with the expanding requirement for cardboard paper throughout the industrial revolution. Soon after, Finnish Rubber Works was started up in the same area, taking on Nokia as a brand name for a handful of its rubber products including footwear and tires. It invested sensibly and bought over majority shares in Finnish Cable Works, a firm started up in the early twentieth century, which obtained success in the post World War II time due to a expanding requirement for telephone and electric related products.

The real creation of Nokia’s mobile business can be trailed to 1960 when Finnish Cable Works established its first electronics branch, whose main target was to trade and work computers. Several years later, Finnish Cable Works and Finnish Rubber Works consolidated to set up the Nokia Group. At this time the electronics division contributed less than five percent of entire profits and it was not until the eighties that Nokia’s mobile venture really began to flourish.

The era of mobile phones began in 1981 when the original international cellular network, Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT), was kicked off and Europe had by then deregulated its telecommunication industry. Morbia Oy, a joint venture between Nokia and a important Finnish television fabricator, introduced its first portable phone, the Morbia Talkman, followed by the Morbia Cityman, the earliest hand held phone that could be used on the Nordic network. By the end of the 1980s Nokia was well positioned to direct the world in mobile communication.

The initial part of the 1990s was witness to the birth of the Global System for Mobile Communication or GSM and Nokia was used to make the first GSM call yet. It was at this time that Nokia’s top management decided to intentionally pay attention largely on telecommunication and relinquish its other unrelated departments. The period was a celebrious one for Nokia with worthy occasions such as the debut of its first GSM phone, the debut of the famous Nokia Tune and Snake game and the launch of the world’s first Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) phone with the ability to browse the internet. But most substantially, Nokia was now the worldwide leader in the mobile phone business having effectively inaugurated heaps of well-accepted models.

Nokia held on its lead in the twenty first century with the introduction of its initial 3G phone in 2002. 3G services permitted mobile users to get more sophisticated services including wireless internet and video calls. Gaming and multimedia had also become a substantial industry and Nokia slapped in multiplayer gaming options in its more highly developed phones like the N-Gage, while the well-liked N series quenched the distinct video and audio demands of its faithful consumers. By 2005 Nokia had sold around one billion phones virtually half the number of global cellular subscriptions of two billion.

In our day Nokia is acclaimed as the one of the most valued makes on the planet with booming businesses in mobile phones, wireless data services, multimedia terminals and telecommunication networks. It has unceasingly brought in fresh services like the Ovi, a website which lets users to download advantageous Nokia applications and save and relocate digital data, throughout the years to complement the consumer experience. No wonder umpteen Nokia customers across the earth look at it not just as a mobile phone, but as a form of expression.