Birth of The Nokia Mobile Phone

The company that gave birth to the amazing piece of technology called the N97 Smartphone has for its humble origins a paper mill opened in 1865 by a certain Fredrik Idestam of southern Finland. This very successful business expanded into rubber and electrical cables. It was not until the 1960s that Nokia became involved in electronics. Telecommunications featured strongly within the electronics department and the company designed and manufactured a range of radio telephones that was used by the military and the emergency services. In parallel with the telecommunications developments which included digital exchanges, the company produced some of the most sophisticated mainframe computers of that time. Soon they moved into the manufacture of televisions and microcomputers.
This technology mix ideally positioned Nokia for a move into mobile phone technology in 1981. This year saw the birth of the era of mobile phones with the launch of the Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT) service. This was the world's first cellular phone service. Nokia produced base stations and car phones. The first portable car phone was the Nokia Mobira Talkman. This was about the size of a briefcase. The first truly portable phone appeared a few years later in 1987. This was called the Mobira Cityman. By today's standards it was still quite bulky, weighing in at over eight hundred grams. It had a hefty price tag too; in today's money it would have cost around £6,000. The original model earned the nickname the brick. Back in those days mobile phone communications used analogue technology. The move to the digital GSM standard started in 1991, and Nokia was a key mover in its development.
A major advantage of GSM was that, in addition to voice communications, data could be carried also. The first Nokia GSM phone was the Nokia 1011. This spearheaded the expansion of the mobile phones market and Nokia was the world leader. Always the innovator, in 1999 Nokia introduced the first ever WAP phone, the Nokia 7110, followed by the first 3G phone, the Nokia 6650 in 2002. Gradually greater and greater functionality was introduced culminating in the Nokia N97, the ultimate Smartphone with a touch screen, multiple applications, full screen web browser, flip up QWERTY keyboard, GPS, five megapixel camera and a host of other features.

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