Some Interesting facts about Nokia.. Did you know?


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Well there are some interesting facts about Nokia which I have archived locally and was planning to blog about it since quite long time. So, the time has come and I am going to let you people know some interesting and hilarious facts about the popular handset manufacturer – Nokia. Just go ahead and read this entire post..

  1. The original Nokia tune that is found as a default ringtone in all Nokia phones is based on a 19th century guitar work named “Gran Vals”
  2. Currently Nokia is among one of the largest digital camera manufacturers, as the sales of Nokia’s camera phone is greater that the number of digital cameras manufactured.
  3. Nokia is also called/referred as aikon (read nokia backwards) by non Nokia phone owners and other developers.
  4. Nokia never produced any models in Asia starting with the digit ‘4’ as the number 4 is considered unlucky in major parts of Asia.
  5. The various SMS tones in Nokia – Standard, Ascending & Special are the Morse code for the words ‘M’(M stands for Message), Message and Connecting People respectively.

Some facts about its products:

  1. Since manufacturing its first model in 1982, till date Nokia have come up with more than 400 models of mobile phones.. Strange, isn’t it?
  2. It sold about 126million pieces of the most popular black & white model Nokia 3310 and Nokia 3330.
  3. Nokia manufactures about 210 million handsets each year which, if calculated, comes to 6.5 phones each second. 🙂

Hope, this piece of article is some way useful and interesting for all Nokia lovers out there! 🙂

Also have a look on Sandeep’s post wherein he mentioned the history of Nokia.


Author: Deepak

As Deepak says - he is a die hard mobile freak and can hardly keep himself away from his mobiles. His passion for mobiles led him to an interview at India's popular news channel. He also blogs at www.mobilegyaan.com