The Decline of Nokia...What Happened?

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Why are you pronouncing Nokia like that?

No-KIA

Literally nobody pronounced it the way you did here.

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My grandpa owns the 1st ever Nokia phone and I own the new Nokia G10

rge decline of nokia is apple and samsung.

Sony Ericsson 610 all day baby Nokia was trash

Nokia is still making the 3310, the banana phone and the XpressMusic and some other dumb phones but only the anti-smartphone community would buy them these days. Nokia is more interested in selling smartphones these days.

They should have just switched to android instead of windows phone

I used N900 and N9 Marmo smart phones: Huge fan still have them

You missed Maemo

My last Nokia was the N95 which managed to navigate me around Florida in my hire car thanks to the Tomtom app on Symbian and a Bluetooth GPS receiver. When I moved from that phone it was to the XDA devices, basically early HTC.

I think my first three cell phones were Nokia. They were indestructible and batteries easily lasted a week or more without being plugged in. I definitely miss those days. I then moved on to a couple Motorola flip phones because they were the cool thing at the time. Once iPhone came out, that basically killed EVERY phone company who didn't adapt. HTC and Motorola survived awhile by jumping on the Android bandwagon early, but it eventually became essentially Samsung vs Apple. My Moto One X was probably my favorite phone ever but then they stopped trying to be flagship quality and it killed their brand.

Miss them newer had problems with signal strength

I loved my big Nokia Lumia 1520 Windows Phone. They were never able to be competitive because of lack of apps. Too bad. Best phone I ever had, as far as hardware. Had to go with Android eventually.

I actually never owned a Nokia phone… that I can remember. I had several Ericssons. An LG or two. And then got my first smartphone, an iPhone and I’ve had iPhones ever since.

kaikki nokialaiset tykätkää

ahem XR20 here

Owned several Nokias, of course, and a smartphone, maybe the first not needing a peak-like pen for the screen. Still it was a harder screentouching that you would like nowadays, the phone was slower than you wanted to, and probably the only thing that fueled me (and many of consumers) was spite against Apple. We were all in on the Iphone killer that never happened. It did had one cool feature, Nokia Maps was way ahead of Apple and Google maps by that time.

very succinctly put . well done.

Make one about windows phone

Finnish business acumen happened.

Their phones were indestructible so customers never had to buy new ones. Thats why smartphones are fragile....

the sad thing is in 2023 and nokia still don't make good smartphones

My daily driver is a Nokia 7.2 with Android 10 on it. Bad bet on your part assuming nobody owns and uses a Nokia.

I remember reading somewhere that the reason why nokia sold so many phones worldwide was because it had 70 languages build in. That used to be a popular prank at the time; to grap a friends nokia and change the display to a totally incomprehensible language and see if they could find their way out of it.

I am Still searching for nokia 5200

Nokia refused to change or adapt to innovate in 2000’s. They still thought the 2000’s was 1980’s 😂

Fun fact Nokia could have brought in the linux operating system made by a finnish person but instead linux is now used by android

I enjoyed symbian just around 2011, that's when i got my hands on E51, it's a keypad phone.. but people around me were all used to touchscreen that they could6 believe i get to play GBA and browse Facebook.
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The down side of my e51 phone.. is first of... The charger was not too durable, original or off brand.. it broke too easily...
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The earphones, it does have an earphones jack.. but it's the smaller version, not ur regular jack... I'm just lucky some offbrand seller actually sell those in my area . Lol
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Another things are useless built in apps.. there's alot of it, that it feels so corporate.. or stuff i couldn't enjoy since am just a student..
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But going over the good points.. as i mention before, you can play emulators, can run both symbian and java games or apps..
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A decent browser, and opera mini browsers were superd.
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Attractive menu, and customizable icons... I believe android does have themes as well but that's like the later version not something a student can even hope to afford
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Anyway, i don't really know why, but for me.. i feel like symbian fails because they didn't even updated it... Like almost all nokia E sories i had my hands on, had the same symbian version... They might change some app, but it's all the same.

Lies. I have a Nokia. It's from after the purchase by Microsoft and runs Windows Phone, so it's useless, but I own one.

I see 2 major failures:
Not buying an iPhone to test. Smartphones from Symbian and Windows CE were pretty shitty so it's no wonder they weren't seeing a market there. Unless you needed the email functionality it made no sense to own one. Even the first iPhone had a plesant and intuitive UI/UX that cemmented their position in the market and it didn't have an idiotic design like the HTC Dream.
Deciding to partner with MS. It wasn't like MS was offering Nokia an exclusivity deal, they were selling their OS to other manufacturers. Why on earth would you shackle yourself to a complete unknown when you could pick a solid contender like android. It's obvious that the money MS was paying them would have helped but they already had a crappy in house OS. Why chose an OS that started development a year after the iPhone, Android was already in the market by that point.

TLDR: Elop and hostile Microsoft takeover happened to Nokia. Windows phone was a dead end from the get go and didn't cost MS that much so it was worthwhile to use it as bait to destroy Nokia and leave only CIA controlled Apple and Google in the market.

Didn't Nokia buy the rights to cell network on the moon before this video show up? Why not mention that? They may make a come back. Thanks

Had a 3390 in the early 2000's.
I accidentally backed over it with my semi truck as it had fallen out of my shirt pocket. (Remember we could fit a phone in our shirt pocket?)
Anyway, the back of it popped off amd the battery fell out. I put the battery back in, slid the back on, and it worked perfectly.
Never had a problem with a Nokia phone!
(I miss texting on them too...😮)

I always got the impression Nokia were fixated with being beating Motorola both on network switching and consumer products.

I bought a Nokia in May 2023, after having owned a BLU phone for about 2 years prior to that. I am not happy w/ Nokia. There is a particular interface that does not operate. The ability to send and receive SMS mgs for NJ Transit

I was, along many others, still buying these up until around 2019 when they just disappeared completely from shelves.
Even then they were nerfed for a few years already, you could no longer remove the battery at will to kill tracking.
My assumption is that the other firms or governments decided this couldn't go on.
They were fine phones, call+text function, little else and dirt cheap.
A single piece could last upwards of 5-8 years.

Since 2021 I've gone through 12 "smart phones" currently on #13. Infuriating tech

I used to have the Nokia 3595 and 6010 in 2003 when I was in middle school

You can't go wrong agreeing with the statements of the person who was there at the time, and who now has the benefit of hindsight.

Looking back, there were other major factors like the loss of CDMA licenses and the resistance to adopting to capacitive screens. In the end though, adopting windows without app eco system support crippled them.

I never owned a Nokia, but I know many people who have. I believe my Dad got one via the company he worked for.

Considering that Apple is giving old tech as new with its marketing might and contracts, Nokia could have easily done it as well but they didn't have the marketing genius of Apple.

Another major note. A lot of thier attention was going towards the N Gauge and N Gauge 2.0 between 2005 and 2009 which were sales disasters. When Apple and smartphones were rapidly growing in popularity, they were busy fighting a losing battle against Nintendo and Sony. The bottom line is that they were distracted and failed to innovate until it was too late.

What happened to Timex watches takes a licking and keeps ticking

I am 16 years old eventhough my first phone was nokia🫠

I have Nokia N73 from the year 2006 I was in my teens just 16 years old and I still have it in my old stuff till this day and I had to see if it works out of curiosity and it still works lol
I used it from 2006 till 2012 when I bought my first Blackberry so it served me for 6 years without any issues and it's been with me in my best teen years it's insane how it saved my
life many times and I mean it! this phone saved my life at least 3 times from many dangerous situations and it was the best link between me and my friends and family. I miss those days.

I am under 20, and i still have a nokia 3310 as my day phone. (And yes, it is the original 2001 model)