Introduction
Nokia has been the first mobile phone manufacturer for many years, or even decades. They sell by far the most phones every year and the five-letter word marks a brand that is considered a bad one by very few people. Professionals and amateurs are both willing to have harsh discussions about the rightfulness of this situation, the reasons are not evident for everyone, but I think that the Finnish manufacturer can thank the fame mostly to its mass-produced phones and the platform that is running on them.
Nokia’s history goes back until 1865, when an engineer called Fredrik Idestam established his cellulose processing plant in Tampere, Southern Finland. Since paper production has been a very profitable business back then, the gentleman opened its second mill three years later in Nokia, situated 15 kilometers from Tampere, which town has the Nokianvirta river running through, this being great in terms of hydro-energy. In 1871 Idesteam, with the help of one of his friends, Leo Mechelin, reorganized the company, which is now called Nokia. Their fame is due to the fact that at the beginning of the 20th century the Finnish Rubber Works moved near them, who were producing rubber boots as well, and they have started using the name Nokia as their brand and they were also buying electricity from Nokia, who were now into this business as well. After the First World War Nokia almost went bankrupt, so it has been acquired by FRW, thus providing continuity. In 1922 Finnish Rubber Works acquired Finnish Cable Works, who were manufacturing phones and phone cables. The three companies have been united after 45 years of cooperation under the name Nokia Cooperation, so this is the name used since 1967. Besides phones they were manufacturing computers, boots, bicycles, hoops and paper as well, but as of the ‘90s they are focusing exclusively on telecommunication devices.
Nokia has of course been named after the river Nokianvirta, which is an ancient Finnish word, originally used as the name of the small animal with a black fur that used to live on the shores of the river. In modern Finnish language the word noki means soot, while nokia is the plural form, although it is rarely used in everyday language in this form.
The greatest breakthrough has been Nokia 5110 in 1998, which has been the most popular mobile phone of its era. It used the same platform as its brother with an infrared port (Nokia 6110), which has been preferred by users for its speed, great structure and the graphics, that have been better, compared to the rivals’. A year later Nokia 3210 has been launched, having total sales of 160 million. The handset has been based on 5110’s platform, but it had predictive text entry and its success has been due to the built-in antenna as well. From here nothing could stop the company, the mainstream models came one after the other, the common thing in them has been great customizability and the easy to use menu. Now, ten years after 3210 we have the latest mainstream, mass-produced product, the successor of the bit dud 3110 Classic, it is called 6303 Classic. As you can see from the model number, we have advanced a level.
The phone came from XXL GSM. The box is the new-generation yellow-grey one, for example 6600 Slide had the same one. Using this one seems to be a waste of space in this case, as 6303 Classic comes only with the three inevitable accessories: charger, headset, data cable. This last one is a nice little guy, shorter then ever, it’s not longer than 10 cm (connectors included), we won’t be using it with anything else than a notebook if there’s no USB lengthener or HUB. Oh, I almost forgot, there is a 1 GB microSD card in the phone.
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