Well there are some interesting facts about Nokia which I have archived locally and was planning to blog about it since quite long time. So, the time has come and I am going to let you people know some interesting and hilarious facts about the popular handset manufacturer – Nokia. Just go ahead and read this entire post..
- The original Nokia tune that is found as a default ringtone in all Nokia phones is based on a 19th century guitar work named “Gran Vals”
- Currently Nokia is among one of the largest digital camera manufacturers, as the sales of Nokia’s camera phone is greater that the number of digital cameras manufactured.
- Nokia is also called/referred as aikon (read nokia backwards) by non Nokia phone owners and other developers.
- Nokia never produced any models in Asia starting with the digit ‘4’ as the number 4 is considered unlucky in major parts of Asia.
- The various SMS tones in Nokia – Standard, Ascending & Special are the Morse code for the words ‘M’(M stands for Message), Message and Connecting People respectively.
Some facts about its products:
- Since manufacturing its first model in 1982, till date Nokia have come up with more than 400 models of mobile phones.. Strange, isn’t it?
- It sold about 126million pieces of the most popular black & white model Nokia 3310 and Nokia 3330.
- Nokia manufactures about 210 million handsets each year which, if calculated, comes to 6.5 phones each second. 🙂
Hope, this piece of article is some way useful and interesting for all Nokia lovers out there! 🙂
Also have a look on Sandeep’s post wherein he mentioned the history of Nokia.