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Sony
SONY CORPORATION,
commonly referred to as Sony,
is a Japanese multinational conglomeratecorporation headquartered
in Kōnan Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Its diversified business is primarily
focused on the electronics, game, entertainment and financial services sectors. The company is one of the leading
manufacturers of electronic products for the consumer and
professional markets. Sony
is ranked 87th on the 2012 list of Fortune
Global 500.
Sony
Corporation is the electronics business
unit and the parent company of the Sony Group, which is engaged in
business through its four operating segments – Electronics (including video games, network services and
medical business), Motion
pictures, Music and Financial Services. These make Sony one of the most
comprehensive entertainment companies in the world. Sony's principal business
operations include Sony Corporation (Sony Electronics in the U.S.), Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Mobile Communications (formerly Sony Ericsson), and Sony Financial. Sony is among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales
Leaders and third-largest television manufacturer in the world, after Samsung Electronics and LG
Electronics.
The Sony Group (ソニー・グループ Sonī Gurūpu?) is a Japan-based corporate group primarily focused on the Electronics
(such as AV/IT products and components), Game (such as PlayStation),
Entertainment (such as motion pictures and music), and Financial Services (such
as insurance and banking) sectors. The group consists of Sony Corporation (holding
and electronics), Sony Computer
Entertainment (games),Sony
Pictures Entertainment (motion
pictures), Sony Music
Entertainment (music), Sony/ATV Music Publishing (music publishing), Sony Financial Holdings (financial services) and others.
Its
founders Akio Morita and Masaru
Ibuka derived the name from sonus, the Latin word for sound, and also from the
English slang word "sonny", since they considered themselves to be
"sonny boys", a loan
word into Japanese which in the
early 1950s connoted smart and presentable young men. The company's current slogan is BE MOVED. Their former slogan
was make.believe and like.no.other.
When Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo was
looking for a romanized name to use to market themselves, they strongly
considered using their initials, TTK. The primary reason they did not is that
the railway company Tokyo Kyuko was known as TKK. The company occasionally used the
acronym "Totsuko" in Japan, but during his visit to the United States,
Morita discovered that Americans had trouble pronouncing that name. Another
early name that was tried out for a while was "Tokyo Teletech" until Akio Morita discovered that there was an American
company already using Teletech as a brand name.
The name
"Sony" was chosen for the brand as a mix of two words. One was the Latin word "Sonus", which
is the root of sonic and sound, and the other was "Sonny", a
familiar term used in 1950s America to call a boy. The first Sony-branded product, the TR-55 transistor radio, appeared in 1955 but
the company name did not change to Sony until January 1958.
At the
time of the change, it was extremely unusual for a Japanese company to use Roman letters to spell its name instead of writing
it in kanji. The move was not
without opposition: TTK's principal bank at the time, Mitsui, had strong feelings about the
name. They pushed for a name such as Sony Electronic Industries, or Sony
Teletech. Akio Morita was firm, however, as he did not want the company name
tied to any particular industry. Eventually, both Ibuka and Mitsui Bank's
chairman gave their approval.
According to Schiffer, Sony's TR-63 radio "cracked open the
U.S. market and launched the new industry of consumer microelectronics."
By the mid-1950s, American teens had begun buying portable transistor radios in
huge numbers, helping to propel the fledgling industry from an estimated
100,000 units in 1955 to 5 million units by the end of 1968.
Sony co-founder Akio Morita founded Sony Corporation of America in
1960. In the process, he was struck by the
mobility of employees between American companies, which was unheard of in Japan
at that time. When he returned to Japan, he encouraged
experienced, middle-aged employees of other companies to reevaluate their
careers and consider joining Sony. The company filled
many positions in this manner, and inspired other Japanese companies to do the
same. Moreover, Sony played a major role in the
development of Japan as a powerful exporter during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. It also helped to significantly improve American perceptions
of "made in Japan" products. Known for its
production quality, Sony was able to charge above-market prices for its
consumer electronics and resisted lowering prices.
In 1971, Masaru Ibuka handed the position of president over to his
co-founder Akio Morita. Sony began a life insurance company in 1979, one of its many peripheral businesses. Amid a
global recession in the early 1980s, electronics sales dropped and the company
was forced to cut prices.Sony's profits fell sharply. "It's over for
Sony," one analyst concluded. "The company's best days are behind
it." Around that time, Norio Ohgatook up the role of president. He encouraged the development of
the Compact Disc in the 1970s and 80s, and of the PlayStation in the early 1990s. Ohga went on to purchase CBS Records in 1988 and Columbia Pictures in 1989, greatly expanding Sony's media presence. Ohga would
succeed Morita as chief executive
officer in 1989.
Under the vision of co-founder Akio Morita and his successors, the company had aggressively expanded
into new businesses. Part of its motivation for doing so was
the pursuit of "convergence," linking film, music, and digital
electronics via the Internet.This expansion
proved unrewarding and unprofitable, threatening Sony's
ability to charge a premium on its products as well as its
brand name. In 2005, Howard Stringer replaced Nobuyuki Idei as chief executive officer, marking the first time that a foreigner has
run a major Japanese electronics firm. Stringer helped to reinvigorate the
company's struggling media businesses, encouraging blockbusters such as Spider-Man while cutting 9,000 jobs. He hoped to sell
off peripheral business and focus the company again on electronics. Furthermore, he aimed to increase cooperation between
business units,which he described as "silos"
operating in isolation from one another. In a bid to
provide a unified brand for its global operations, Sony introduced a slogan
known as "make.believe" in 2009.
Despite some successes, the company faced continued struggles in
the mid- to late-2000s. It became known for its stagnancy, with a
fading brand name. In 2012, Kazuo Hirai was promoted to president and CEO, replacing Sir Howard
Stringer. Shortly thereafter, Hirai outlined his company-wide initiative, named
"One Sony" to revive Sony from years of financial losses and
bureaucratic management structure, which proved difficult for former CEO
Stringer to accomplish, partly due to differences in business culture and
native languages between Stringer and some of Sony's Japanese divisions and
subsidiaries. Hirai outlined 3 major areas of focus for Sony's electronics
business, which include imaging technology, gaming and mobile technology, as
well as a focus on reducing the major losses from the television business.
In February 2014, Sony announced the sale of its Vaio PC division
to a new corporation owned by investment fund Japan Industrial Partners and
spinning its TV division into its own corporation as to make it more nimble to
turn the unit around from past losses totaling $7.8 billion over a decade.
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Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows or Windows is a super family of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.
It consists of several families of operating systems, each of which cater to a
certain sector of the computing industry. Active Windows families include Windows NT, Windows Embedded and Windows
Phone; these may encompass subfamilies, e.g. Windows
Embedded Compact (Windows CE) or Windows Server. Defunct Windows
families include Windows 9x and Windows
Mobile.
Microsoft
introduced an operating
environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as a graphical operating system shelf or MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal computer market with over 90% market share, overtaking Mac OS, which had been introduced in
1984. However, it is outsold by Android on smartphones and tablets.
As of
April 2014, the most recent versions of Windows for personal computers, smartphones, server computers and embedded devices are respectively Windows 8.1, Windows Phone 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows
Embedded 8. A specialized version of Windows runs on the Xbox One game console.
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Videocon
VIDEOCON INDUSTRIES LIMITED is
a large diversified Indian company headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana. The group has 17 manufacturing sites in India and plants
in Mainland China, Poland, Italy and Mexico. It claims to be the third
largest picture
tube manufacturer in the world. The
group is a US$5
billion global conglomerate
The Videocon group's core areas of business are consumer electronics and home appliances.
They have recently diversified into areas such as DTH, power, oil exploration and
telecommunication.
Consumer electronics
In India, the group sells consumer products like colour
televisions, washing machines, air conditioners, refrigerators, microwave ovens
and many other home appliances, through a multi-brand strategy with the largest
sales and service network in India.
Since the entry of Korean Chaebols and their rising popularity in
the Indian market, Videocon from a stand-point of market leader has seen a slow
decline to become a no 3 player in India. The company continues to do well in
the washing machine and refrigerator segment but has significantly lost ground
in the consumer electronics space.
Mobile phones
In November 2009, Videocon launched its new line of mobile phones. Videocon has, since launched a number of handsets ranging
from basic colour FM phones to high-end Android devices. In February 2011,
Videocon Mobile Phones launched the hitherto unknown concept of 'Zero' paise (1
paise is the 100th unit of 1INR) per second with bundled SIM cards of Videocon mobile services for 7 of its handset
models.
In June 2013, Videocon Mobiles launched its own flagship
smartphone Videocon A55HD in India for Rs. 13,499.
Oil and gas
An important asset for the group is its Ravva oil field with one
of the lowest operating costs in the world producing 50,0000 barrels of oil per
day.
DTH
In 2009, Videocon launched its DTH product, called 'd2h'. As a pioneering offer in the Indian DTH market, Videocon offered LCD & TVs with
built-in DTH satellite receiver with sizes 19" to 42".
Telecommunication
Videocon Telecommunications Limited has a licence for mobile service
operations across India. It launched its services on 7 April 2010 in Mumbai.
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Canon
CANON Inc. is
a Japanese multinational
corporation specialized in the
manufacture of imaging and optical products, including cameras, camcorders, photocopiers, steppers, computer printers and medical equipment. Its headquarters
are located in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan.
Canon has a primary listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the TOPIX index. It has a secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
The company was originally
named Seikikōgaku
kenkyūsho (Precision Optical Industry Co. Ltd.). In 1934 it produced the Kwanon, a prototype for Japan’s first-ever 35 mm
camera with a focal plane based shutter. In 1947 the company name was changed toCanon Camera Co., Inc., shortened to Canon Inc. in 1969. The name Canon comes from
Buddhism, of Buddhist bodhisattva Guan Yin,
in Japanese, despite that spelling is closer to canon (law).
Canon manufactures consumer imaging products including printers,
scanners, binoculars, compact digital cameras, film SLR and digital
SLR cameras, lenses and
video camcorders.
The "Business Solutions" division offers
multi-functional printers, black and white and color office printers, large
format printers, scanners, black and white and color production printers, as
well as software to support these products.
DeVito/Verdi was hired for an award winning, humorous campaign
with the concept “If business were that easy, you wouldn't need us,” using old
office footage to describe the new ways Canon Business Solutions was bringing
copiers and office supplies forward.
Lesser known Canon products include medical, optical and broadcast
products, including ophthalmic and x-ray devices, broadcast lenses,
semiconductors, digital microfilm scanners, and handy terminals.
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HP
Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California,United States. It provides
hardware, software and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses
(SMBs) and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health and
education sectors.
The
company was founded in a one-car
garage in Palo Alto by William "Bill" Redington
Hewlett and Dave Packard. HP is the world's
leading PC manufacturer and has been since 2007, fending off a challenge by
Chinese manufacturer Lenovo,
according to Gartner. It specializes in developing and
manufacturing computing, data storage, and networking hardware, designing
software and delivering services. Major product lines include personal
computing devices, enterprise and industry standard servers, related storage devices,
networking products, software and a diverse range of printers and other imaging
products. HP markets its products to households, small- to medium-sized
businesses and enterprises directly as well as via online distribution,
consumer-electronics and office-supply retailers, software partners and major
technology vendors. HP also has strong services and consulting business around
its products and partner products. In 2012 it was the world's largest PC vendor by unit sales.
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard graduated with degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford
University in 1935. The company
originated in agarage in nearby Palo Alto during a fellowship they had with a
past professor, Frederick Terman at Stanford during the Great Depression. Terman was
considered a mentor to them in forming Hewlett-Packard. In 1939, Packard and Hewlett
established Hewlett-Packard (HP) in Packard's garage with an initial capital
investment of US$538. Hewlett and Packard tossed a coin to
decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or
Packard-Hewlett. HP incorporated on August 18, 1947,
and went public on November 6, 1957.
Of the
many projects they worked on, their very first financially successful product
was a precision audio oscillator,
the Model HP200A. Their
innovation was the use of a small incandescent light bulb (known as a "pilot light")
as a temperature dependent resistor in a critical portion of the circuit,
the negative feedback loop which stabilized the amplitude of the output
sinusoidal waveform. This allowed them to sell the Model 200A for $54.40 when
competitors were selling less stable oscillators for over $200. The Model 200
series of generators continued until at least 1972 as the 200AB, still
tube-based but improved in design through the years.
One of
the company's earliest customers was Walt
Disney Productions which bought
eight Model 200B oscillators for use in certifying
the Fantasound surround sound systems installed in theaters for the
movie Fantasia.
HP produces lines of
printers, scanners, digital cameras, calculators, PDAs, servers, workstation computers, and computers for home
and small-business use; many of the computers came from the 2002 merger with Compaq. HP as of 201 promotes itself as supplying not just
hardware and software, but also a full range of services to design, implement,
and support IT infrastructure.
Products and technology associated with IPG include:
·
Inkjet and LaserJet printers
·
consumables and related
products
·
Officejet all-in-one multifunction printer/scanner/faxes
·
Designjet and Scitex
Large Format Printers
·
Indigo Digital Press
·
HP Web Jetadmin printer
management software
·
HP Output Management
suite of software
·
LightScribe optical recording technology
·
HP Photosmart digital cameras and photo printers
·
HP SPaM
·
Snapfish by HP, a photo sharing and photo products service.
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LG
LG CORPORATION, formerly Lucky
Goldstar is a South Koreanmultinational conglomerate corporation. It is the fourth-largest company of its kind
in South Korea. Its headquarters are situated in the LG Twin Towers
building in Yeouido-dong, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul. LG makes electronics, chemicals, and telecom products and operates subsidiaries such as LG Electronics, Zenith, LG
Display, LG
Telecom and LG
Chem in over 80 countries.
LG Corp. founder Koo In-Hwoi
established Lak-Hui Chemical Industrial Corp. in 1947. In 1952, Lak-Hui (pronounced
"Lucky", currently LG Chem) became the first Korean company to enter
the plastic industry. As the company expanded its plastic business, it
established GoldStarCo. Ltd.
(currently LG Electronics Inc.) in 1958. Both companies Lucky and GoldStar merged and formed Lucky Goldstar.
GoldStar produced South Korea's first radio.
Many consumer electronics were sold under the brand name GoldStar, while some other household
products (not available outside South Korea) were sold under the brand name of
Lucky. The Lucky brand was famous for hygiene products such as soaps and HiTi
laundry detergents, but the brand was mostly associated with its Lucky and
Perioe toothpaste. Even today, LG
continues to manufacture some of these products for the South Korean market,
such as laundry detergent.
In 1995,
to compete better in the Western market, the Lucky-Goldstar Corporation was
renamed "LG". The company also associates the letters LG with the
company's tagline "Life's Good", which is actually a backronym. Since 2009, LG has owned
the domain name LG.com.
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Philips
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Royal Philips, commonly known as Philips) is a Dutch diversified technology company
headquartered inAmsterdam with
primary divisions focused in the areas of Healthcare, Consumer Lifestyle and
Lighting. It was founded in Eindhoven in 1891 by Gerard Philips and his father Frederik. It is one of
the largest electronics companies in the world and employs around 122,000
people across more than 60 countries.
Philips
is organized into three main divisions: Philips
Consumer Lifestyle (formerly
Philips Consumer Electronics and Philips Domestic Appliances and Personal
Care), Philips Healthcare (formerly Philips Medical Systems) and Philips
Lighting. As of 2012 Philips was the largest manufacturer of lighting in the
world measured by applicable revenues. In
2013, the company sold the bulk of its remaining consumer electronics
operations to Funai Electric Co. On 25 October 2013, the deal to Funai
Electric Co was broken off and the consumer electronics operations remain under
Philips.
Philips
has a primary listing on the Euronext
Amsterdam stock exchange and is a
constituent of the AEX index. It
has a secondary listing on the New
York Stock Exchange.
Philips began operations in
India in 1930 with the establishment of Philips Electrical Co. (India) Pvt Ltd in Kolkata as a sales outlet for imported Philips lamps. In 1938,
Philips established its first Indian lamp-manufacturing factory in Kolkata. In
1948, Philips started manufacturing radios in Kolkata. In 1959, a second radio
factory was established near Pune. In 1957, the company converted into a public limited
company, renamed "Philips India Ltd". In 1970 a new consumer
electronics factory began operations in Pimpri near Pune; the factory was
closed in 2006. In 1996, the Philips Software Centre was established in Bangalore, later renamed the Philips Innovation Campus. In 2008, Philips India entered the water purifier
market..
Philips' core products are
consumer electronics and electrical products (including audio equipment,
Blu-ray players, computer accessories, televisions, small domestic appliances
and shavers); healthcare products (including CT scanners, ECG equipment, mammography equipment, monitoring equipment, MRI scanners, radiography equipment, resuscitation equipment,
ultrasound equipment and X-ray equipment); and lighting products (including
indoor luminaires, outdoor luminaires, automotive
lighting, lamps, lighting controls and lighting
electronics).
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Micromax
Micromax is an Indian consumer electronics company located in Gurgaon, Haryana, India. It is in the business of manufacturing of Mobile Telephones, Tablet Computers, 3G Datacards and LED Televisions. It has 23 offices in India and an international office in Hong Kong.
Micromax started as an IT software company in the year 2000 working on embedded platforms.It entered mobile handset business and by 2010 it became one of the largest Indian domestic mobile handsets company operating in low cost feature phone segments. The company has a 22% market share in the smartphone segment in India. As per IDC for Q2 2013. The company's product portfolio has more than 60 models ranging from feature rich, dual SIM phones, 3G Android Smartphones, TabletsPC's, LED Televisions and 3G data cards. The company claims it has many firsts to its credit in the Mobile handset market – including the 30-day battery backup, dual SIM, QWERTY Keypad, Universal Remote Control Mobile Phone,first dual-boot Android and Windows 8 tablet, etc.
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Apple Inc.
APPLE INC. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers. Its best-known hardware products are the Mac line of computers, the iPod media player, the iPhone smartphone, and the iPad tablet computer. Its consumer software includes the OS X and iOS operating systems, theiTunes media browser, the Safari web browser, and the iLife and iWork creativity and productivity suites.
Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 1976 to develop and sell personal computers. It was incorporated as Apple Computer, Inc. on January 3, 1977, and was renamed as Apple Inc. on January 9, 2007 to reflect its shifted focus towards consumer electronics.
Apple is the world's second-largest information technology company by revenue after Samsung Electronics, and the world's third-largest mobile phone maker after Samsung and Nokia. Fortune magazine named Apple the most admired company in the United States in 2008, and in the world from 2008 to 2012. On September 30, 2013, Apple surpassed Coca-Cola to become the world's most valuable brand in the Omnicom Group's "Best Global Brands" report. However, the company has received criticism for its contractors' labor practices, and for Apple's own environmental and business practices.
As of May 2013, Apple maintains 408 retail stores in fourteen countries as well as the online Apple Store and iTunes Store, the latter of which is the world's largest music retailer. Apple is the largest publicly traded corporation in the world by market capitalization, with an estimated value of US$415 billion as of March 2013. As of September 29, 2012, the company had 72,800 permanent full-time employees and 3,300 temporary full-time employees worldwide. Its worldwide annual revenue in 2012 totalled $156 billion. In May 2013, Apple entered the top ten of the Fortune 500 list of companies for the first time, rising 11 places above its 2012 ranking to take the sixth position.
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NOKIA
Nokia is a Finnish communications and information
technology multinational
corporation that is headquartered
in Espoo, Finland. Its Nokia
Solutions and Networks company
provides telecommunications
network equipment and services, while Internet services, including applications, games, music, media andmessaging, and free-of-charge
digital map information and navigation services, are delivered through its
wholly owned subsidiary Navteq.
As of
2012, Nokia employs 101,982 people across 120 countries, conducts sales in more
than 150 countries, and reports annual revenues of around €30 billion. By the fourth quarter of 2012, it was
the world's second-largest mobile
phone maker in terms of unit
sales (after Samsung), with a global market
share of 18.0%. Now, Nokia only has a 3.2% market
share in smartphones. They lost 40% of their revenue in
mobile phones in Q2 2013. Nokia is a public
limited-liability company listed
on the Helsinki Stock Exchange and New
York Stock Exchange. It is the world's 274th-largest
company measured by 2013 revenues according to the Fortune Global 500.
Nokia was
the world's largest vendor of mobile phones from 1998 to 2012. However, the company's market share
has declined since 2007 as a result of the growing use of touchscreen
smartphones from other vendors—principally the iPhone, by Apple, and devices running onAndroid,
an operating system created by Google. The corporation's share price
fell from a high of US$40 in late 2007 to under US$2 in mid-2012. In a bid to recover, Nokia announced a
strategic partnership with Microsoft in February 2011, leading to the
replacement of Symbian with
Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system in all Nokia
smartphones. Following the replacement of the
Symbian system, Nokia's smartphone sales figures, which had previously
increased, collapsed dramatically. From the beginning of 2011 until 2013,
Nokia fell from its position as the world's largest smartphone vendor to assume
the status of tenth largest.
On 2
September 2013, Microsoft announced its intent to purchase
Nokia's mobile phone business unit as part of an overall deal totaling €5.44
billion (US$7.17 billion). Stephen
Elop, Nokia's former CEO, and several other executives will join Microsoft as
part of the deal.
Nokia
unveiled its' third range on 24 February 2014, the Nokia X family, which run a modified
version of the Android operating
system. The range includes three mid-tier devices; Nokia X, Nokia X+ and Nokia
XL.
The technologies that preceded
modern cellular mobile telephony systems were the various "0G"
pre-cellular mobile radio
telephony standards. Nokia had
been producing commercial and some military mobile radio communications
technology since the 1960s, although this part of the company was sold some
time before the later company rationalization. Since 1964, Nokia had developed VHF radio
simultaneously with Salora Oy. In
1966, Nokia and Salora started developing the ARP standard (which stands for
Autoradiopuhelin, or car radio
phone in English), a
car-based mobile radio telephony system and the first commercially operated
public mobile phone network in Finland. It went online in 1971 and offered 100%
coverage in 1978.
In 1979,
the merger of Nokia and Salora resulted in the establishment of Mobira Oy.
Mobira began developing mobile phones for the NMT (Nordic Mobile Telephony) network
standard, the first-generation,
first fully automatic cellular phone system that went online in 1981. In 1982, Mobira introduced its first car phone, the Mobira Senator for
NMT-450 networks.
Nokia
bought Salora Oy in 1984 and now owning 100% of the company, changed the
company's telecommunications branch name to Nokia-Mobira Oy. The Mobira
Talkman, launched in 1984, was one of the world's first transportable phones.
In 1987, Nokia introduced one of the world's first handheld phones, the Mobira Cityman 900 for NMT-900 networks (which, compared
to NMT-450, offered a better signal, yet a shorter roam). While the Mobira
Senator of 1982 had weighed 9.8 kg (22 lb) and the Talkman just under
5 kg (11 lb), the Mobira Cityman weighed only 800 g (28 oz)
with the battery and had a price tag of 24,000 Finnish marks (approximately €4,560). Despite the high price, the first
phones were almost snatched from the sales assistants' hands. Initially, the
mobile phone was a "yuppie" product and a status symbol.
Nokia's
mobile phones got a big publicity boost in 1987, when Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was pictured using a Mobira Cityman to
make a call fromHelsinki to his
communications minister in Moscow. This led to the phone's nickname of the
"Gorba".
In 1988,
Jorma Nieminen, resigning from the post of CEO of the mobile phone unit, along
with two other employees from the unit, started a notable mobile phone company
of their own, Benefon Oy (since renamed to GeoSentric). One year later, Nokia-Mobira Oy became
Nokia Mobile Phones.
Symbian was the main operating system of Nokia
smartphones by 2012, Nokia 808 PureView, launched in February 2012 was the last
Symbian smartphone.
In Q4
2004, Nokia released its first touch screen phone, the Nokia 7710.
In
September 2006, Nokia announced the Nokia
N95, a Symbian-powered slider smartphone. It was released in February 2007 as
the first phone with a 5-megapixel camera. It became hugely popular. An
8 GB variant was released in October 2007.
In
November 2007, Nokia announced and released the Nokia N82, its first Nseries phone
with Xenon flash. At the Nokia
World conference in December 2007, Nokia announced their "Comes With
Music" program: Nokia device buyers are to receive a year of complimentary
access to music downloads. The service became commercially
available in the second half of 2008.
The first
Nseries device, the N90, utilised the older Symbian
OS 8.1 mobile operating system, as did the
N70. Subsequently Nokia switched to using SymbianOS 9 for all later Nseries
devices (except the N72, which was based on the N70). Newer Nseries devices
incorporate newer revisions of SymbianOS 9 that include Feature Packs. The N800, N810, N900, N9 andN950 are as of April 2012 the only Nseries
devices (therefore excluding Lumia devices) to not use Symbian OS. They
use the Linux-based Maemo, except the N9(50), which uses MeeGo.
In 2008,
Nokia released the Nokia E71 which was marketed to directly compete
with the other BlackBerry-type
devices offering a full "qwerty" keyboard and cheaper prices.
The Nokia N8, from September 2010, is the
first device to function on the Symbian^3 mobile operating system. Nokia
revealed that the N8 will be the last device in its flagship N-series devices
to ship with Symbian OS.
The Nokia 808 PureView has a 41-megapixel camera, more than
any other smartphone on the market. It was released in February 2012 and
contains a 1.3 GHz processor. On 25 January 2013, Nokia announced this was
the last Symbian smartphone the company would make.
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