From 65438 to 0960, Bjorn Westerlund, then president of Nokia, focused on the telecommunications industry. He believes that the telecommunications industry in the future is the trend of technological development, so he set up the Nokia Electronics Department, focusing on telecommunications systems. At that time, the Ministry of Electronics was already studying radio transmission, which laid the foundation for Nokia Group Telecom.
1967, the former electronics department has developed into a large department with 460 people, and its net sales account for 3% of the whole group's net sales. In recognition of Nokia as the largest local industrial facility and employer, Pohjois-Pirkkala Town, founded in 1937, was renamed as Nokia Town one year later.
1982, Nokia (then called Mobira) produced the first mobile phone senator of Taipei European mobile phone network. Then develop Talkman. In the mid-1980s, Nokia mobile phones entered the American market through Tandy Radio Cabin Company's store. In order to produce the AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone System) simulator sold by Tandy, the company and Tandy established a joint production plant in Korea on 1985.
During the period of 1990, the number of mobile phone users increased greatly, the price of mobile phones dropped rapidly, and mobile phones became smaller and smaller. Nokia has also clearly formulated a strategy to develop into a dynamic telecommunications company. While focusing on the telecommunications business, Nokia's business scope has expanded rapidly with the rapid development of the telecommunications industry. At the same time, Nokia is also committed to GSM technology. The first GSM conversation was held at 199 1 by Nokia Telephone Company through Nokia wireless network in Finland.
From 65438 to 0995, Nokia's overall mobile phone sales and orders increased substantially, and the company's profits increased greatly.
1996 Nokia mobile phone occupied the first position in the mobile phone market for 15 years in a row, and launched smart phones of Symbian and MeeGo.
In 2003, Nokia 1 100 sold 200 million units worldwide.
In 2009, Nokia shipped about 43180,000 mobile phones.
20 10 in the second quarter, Nokia's share in the mobile terminal market was about 35.0%, which was 20.6% ahead of other mobile phones at that time.
On 20 1 1 February11day, Nokia announced in London, England that it had reached a strategic partnership with Microsoft and abandoned Symbian and MeeGo. Adopt Microsoft Windows Phone system, and will participate in the research and development of this system.
2065438+On June 2, 20021,Microsoft released the Windows Phone 8(WP8) operating system at the press conference in San Francisco, USA. It adopts a brand-new NT kernel and interface, supports multi-core processors and high-definition resolution, and its overall performance is more powerful. Nokia started mass production of WP8 mobile phones. However, the new WP8 system is not compatible with the original WP7.5 system. On the evening of September 5th 10, Nokia and Microsoft held a press conference in New York, USA, and officially launched two smartphones with Microsoft Windows Phone 8 operating system.
On the morning of September 3rd, 20 13, Microsoft announced that it would acquire Nokia's mobile phone business and a large number of patent portfolios for about 765,438+700 million US dollars. Microsoft will buy Nokia's equipment and service department for 3.79 billion euros, and at the same time buy its patent portfolio license for 65.438+650 million euros, which is 5.44 billion euros, equivalent to about 76.5438+700 million dollars. Nokia will provide Microsoft with a non-exclusive patent license for 10 years. Microsoft will also provide Nokia with patent licenses related to positioning technology. Microsoft has the right to extend this patent cooperation in the future.
20 14 On April 25th, Microsoft announced the completion of the acquisition of Nokia's equipment and services department, which has been approved by Nokia's shareholders and regulators in many countries and regions.
2065438+On July 8, 2004, Microsoft announced that it would lay off 18000 people in the coming year, of which about 12500 jobs came from Nokia.
2016 may 18, Nokia announced in official website today that it will grant the newly established Finnish company HMD global oy an exclusive global patent right.
2017,654381On the morning of October 7, HMD held a product launch conference in Las Vegas, USA, and released their first smartphone Nokia 6 based on Android operating system, targeting the China market, with a price of 1699 yuan, and announced that they had reached a strategic sales cooperation agreement with JD.COM, which will be listed before the Spring Festival this month.