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10 Facts You Dont Know About Nokia by bigt2(m): 8:59am On Apr 23, 2013
1)..The ringtone "Nokia tune" is
actually based on a 19th century
guitar work named "Gran Vals"
by Spanish musician Francisco
Tárrega. The NokiaTune was
originally named "Grande Valse" on Nokia phones but
was changed to "Nokia
Tune" around 1998 when it became so well known that people referred to it as the "Nokia Tune."

2)...The world's first commercial GSM call was made in 1991 in
Helsinki over a Nokia- supplied network, by Prime Minister of
Finland Harri Holkeri, using a
Nokia phone.

3)...Nokia is currently the world's largest digital camera manufacturer, as the sales of its
camera-equipped mobile phones
have exceeded those of any conventional camera manufacturer e.g we can see
nokia 808 with 41 megapixel even some digital camera dont
have up to that

4) ...The "Special" tone available to users of Nokia phones when
receiving SMS (text messages) is actually Morse code for "SMS". Similarly, the "Ascending" SMS
tone is Morse code for "Connecting People," Nokia's slogan. The
"Standard" SMS tone is Morse code for "M" (Message).

5)...The Nokia corporate font
(typeface) is the AgfaMonotype
Nokia Sans font, originally designed by Eric Spiekermann. Its
mobile phone User's Guides
Nokia mostly used the Agfa Rotis
Sans font

6)...In Asia, the digit 4 never appears in any Nokia handset
model number, because 4 is
considered unlucky in many
parts of Southeast/East Asia.

7)...Nokia was listed as the 20th
most admirable company worldwide in Fortune's list of 2006(1st in network communications, 4th non-US
company).

8 ...Unlike other modern day handsets, Nokia phones do not automatically start the call timer when the call is connected, but start it when the call is initiated. (Except for Series 60 based handsets like the Nokia 6600)

9)...Nokia is sometimes called aikon (Nokia backwards) by non- Nokia mobile phone users and by mobile software developers, because "aikon" is used in various SDK software packages, including Nokia's own Symbian S60 SDK

10)...The name of the town of Nokia originated from the river which flowed through the town.
The river itself, Nokianvirta, was
named after the old Finnish word originally meaning sable, later pine marten. A species of this small, black- furred predatory animal was once found in the region, but it is now extinct.

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Re: 10 Facts You Dont Know About Nokia by Youngpo413: 1:42pm On Apr 23, 2013
Thanks for the info
Re: 10 Facts You Dont Know About Nokia by bigt2(m): 9:43pm On Apr 23, 2013
Young po413: Thanks for the info
UWC wink

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