Nokia: The Story of the Once-Legendary Phone Maker

[Rachel345]

Ah man... this article brings back so many memories of playing snake!! You do have to wonder what would've happened for Nokia had they not partnered with Windows, been playing catch up ever since.

 

[Nobina]

If they took the Android route they would be making generic phones like the rest of them. At their peak they were making some weird but exciting phones and everybody wanted one. Sony Ericsson was up there as well. Fun times.

 

[bviktor]

Nokia 3310, Nokia 6230, Nokia 1680, Nokia 5230, Lumia 710, Lumia 720, Lumia 830, Lumia 950, Nokia 5.1.

I owned Nokia phones exclusively for the better part of my life lol. You can't say I didn't give them an honest chance. I stayed till the very end. Since then iPhone SE (1st gen), iPhone XR, iPhone 12, iPhone 15 Pro. I doubt I'll own an Android phone ever again, and I doubt it would've saved Nokia TBH.

But MS' shenanigans with WP 7 -> WP 7.5 -> WP 7.8 -> WP 8 -> W10M (and also the underlying platforms, like UWP) certainly didn't help. You can only reboot your ecosystem so many times before everyone jumps ship.

I figure it's extremely convenient for the Finns to blame it all on that foolish Canadian Elop, single-handedly ruining their national treasure Nokia in his 3 years, but you can't forget the mismanagement, infighting, personal ambitions, and refusal to adapt in the preceding more than 10 years that lead to this conclusion.

Anssi Vanjoki in 2002 started funding efforts to build an alternative. The project was frowned upon internally, and suffered a great deal of pushback once it became clear that this new operating system was better than Symbian. In 2007, OSSO was renamed to Maemo, and internal resistance to it became stronger still. One of the main reasons for that was that some executives were reluctant to support projects initiated by Vanjoki.

Get it? Someone made a superior OS, and instead of embracing it, they did everything in their power to sabotage it, because it wasn't THEIR pet project. Isn't that just the most pathetic thing ever? So yeah, Elop didn't burn Nokia to the ground - he just failed to turn it around.

PS: Space Impact was way better than Snake

 

[Tams80]

It's such a shame that Nokia have gone from the smartphone industry.

Maemo/Meego was fantastic, and even Symbian was (if only they had managed to get it working well on multicore SoCs).

And the there was their actually innovative and fun designs.

The industry is much poorer for their absence. Damn, the 00s were the best time for mobile phones.

 

[noel24]

Classic Nokia lives in our hearts.
My first phone was Nokia 3120, in 2005. FOR 9 YEARS!
After that I had Samsung S4 (I9506), S7 and now S21FE - and I kept My ring tone from Nokia.
This more annoying, monotone from previous Nokias is My alarm clock jingle - guaranteed to wake up a dead guy.