"Hello, I'm In Finland" | 60 Minutes Archive

[@Lazengogh]

Here's a fact for you: Finnish wireless communication systems got started during the 1950s, when Finland had worst peace time train disaster to this date, that was caused by lack of communications between two dispatchers, who each accidentally send trains to colliding paths. Both dispatchers knew that those trains will collide, but there was no way of warning them. After this accident, they started to work on wireless telecommunication devices, of which Nokia was later born.

[@peabase]

That's a bit fanciful. Finland excelled in SIGINT in WW2 and produced a state-of-the-art patrol radio in the Kyynel. Nokia's first runaway success in telecommunications came with its fixed-line digital telephone exchange, the DX200, which later powered mobile networks as well.

[@vihreelinja4743]

No kait niillä ny radiot junissa on ollu.. Ja ne lippusysteemit radoilla.. olis voinu vaikka morsettaa seuraavalle asemalle :D

[@mortaljorma69]

As a finn im still stunned about how that all fuss around Nokia ended. For some weird reason, they did not want to develop their phones for touch screens. Rest in peace Mr. Simon - what a great person he was.

[@rogerhommas9750]

...normaali suomi-ongelma : kun valtio / korkeakoulu on tehnyt sun keksinnöstä maailmanlaajuista keksintöä : alunperin tekijät, valtion kustantamana, tekee " taakse poistu, ja muuttavat Canary Islanders.. teeppä video6google miehestä joka keksi Telegramin : hänellä on visio ..

[@samanen]

Trojan Elop ? 🥹

[@alaric_]

- Elop switches from Microsoft to Nokia. - After just 2 years, Nokia lost 85% of market value. Let that sink in: 85%! - Elop sells Nokia to Microsoft. - Elop switches from Nokia to Microsoft.

[@naukumaija7056]

They said it was "too soon, it won't be popular". Shot ourselves in the foot so bad.

[@lemagreengreen]

They just seemed to very suddenly get everything wrong, clinging to obviously failing strategy and ignoring their plummeting market share.

[@moonliteX]

Kännykkä-sanan keksi Nokialle työskennellyt Aarne Visuri vuonna 1977. Ensimmäinen kännykkä oli Nokian SV1500-käsiradiopuhelin, joka oli tarkoitettu yritysten ja viranomaisten käyttöön. Visurin mukaan kännykkä tulee sanasta känny, joka tarkoittaa pienen lapsen kättä.[2] Nokia-Mobira rekisteröi nimen Kännykkä tavaramerkiksi vuonna 1987 Suomen markkinoita varten. Aluksi se myös yritti estää muita käyttämästä yhtiön tavaramerkkiä. Pian yhtiö kuitenkin hyväksyi, että tavaramerkistä tuli yleisnimi käsipuhelimille.

[@AllanLaal]

onko toi sana silti käytössä?

[@lesalmin]

@@AllanLaal Se on yhä käytössä ja erityisen osuva se onkin juuri kuvaamaan nykyisiä älypuhelimia, jotka ovat pikemminkin kädessä pidettäviä tietokoneita (tai yleiskoneita), kuin puhelimia (vaikka niissä toki yhä puhelintoimintokin on).

[@maurieb82]

Those old school Nokia phones lasted forever

[@hextatik_sound]

I still have one. I use it every now and then.

[@tapio_m6861]

Longer than Nokia's own mobile phone operation.

[@HenritheHorse]

I still have that yellow phone, it was my first one before my dad gave me his broken 3310.

[@jarikinnunen1718]

I used 3510i five years ago and didn`t get new sim card any more to fit it.

[@northstar2621]

My parents' phone fell off the roof of a car when the car was moving at high speed in 2002, bought ten years earlier, still works fine with amazing battery life

[@Emppu_T.]

That was really solid from 60min. Really brings me back to the 90s. What an interesting era it was as well.

[@varehouse]

Yea except it was only 11 min.

[@DoomGuy.XIV.88]

Some say it was the greatest time to be alive and I agree as you had all the cool vital tech of the modern world but without it's downsides. Cars have only become worse, medicine is still the same as it was decades ago, people had the rights to privacy as if government wanted to spy on you they had to actually send people unlike today where they can track just about anyone... 9/11 was the event that changed the world for worse.

[@brendansmith7842]

Not if you invested in Nokia then though and held the bag. I sense something similar going on today.

[@Tavero100]

Even though Finland isn't leading in the phone game anymore, the effects of the mobile phone boom can still be seen here. FInland has crazy good mobile data coverage and you can get infinite mobile data usage for your service with like 20€ a month.

[@patient7ero]

15 euros..

[@alessialee4131]

@@patient7ero tell me which provider 😂😂

[@patient7ero]

@@alessialee4131 oops my bad. Was thinking older prices from MOI-provider. 22€/month is now 300M infinite data from MOI.

[@TopiasSalakka]

Also, capped mobile data hardly exists, I think there's just one virtual carrier that offers it for phones.

[@Leopardipzg]

@@alessialee4131 Elisa was selling infinite mobile data through October for just 7,99€. Trick is that you need to be a Moi customer, then you can ask the deals.

[@eaaeeeea]

As a Finn I remember you didn't look which phone brand your friend had, you wanted to know which of your Nokia models was better.

[@SumeaBizarro]

During first smart phone wave you gave a weird look but were also lowkey impressed by the guy with Sony-Ericson or something like that.

[@unknownentity8256]

Better times... Then we decided to go with Lumia OS instead of Android.. R.I.P

[@Purjo92]

@@unknownentity8256 The same problems might someday sink South Korea. Nokia was 4 % of Finnish GDP at best, while Samsung is 20 % of South Korea's. Sure, they have multiple branches doing different things, like Displays or even Banking services, but losing the phone industry to Apple and the Chinese would be devastating.

[@alaric_]

@@SumeaBizarro Ericson with just two lines of text was extremely clunky to use and therefore earned the weird looks.

[@RpGamingProductions1]

“i’m not sure I want people phoning me 24 hrs a day” Ahead of her time fr 😅

[@mascot4950]

And seemingly yet to learn of the existence of the off button. :P

[@m1k1a1]

Haha, yes. TV crew came all the way to Finland and the smartest person they found was an American.

[@seanrowshandel1680]

This guy's voice is so relaxing. Everyone in 1999 was technically loveable. Nowadays, who's loveable?

[@ville_1235]

1:11 that pronounciation was just shocking

[@johto]

Almost sounded "Känni.." something, 🍺

[@Veenaza]

"Kanjyka"

[@taahaseois.8898]

Kuulostaa enemmän "Кянюкя":ltä kun kännykältä 🤣

[@flashdancer42]

Finnish "y" is pretty hard for anyone else than like Polish ppl...

[@onerainiday]

Miss Bob Simon. Great journalist.

[@Mastakilla91]

People seem so different in videos from before social media. RELAXED, reasonable talking speed and manners. This also applies to Americans in the 1990s.

[@JPPVESA]

The text message was also a Finnish innovation....apologies.....

[@unknownentity8256]

Also Linux, and the first browset with UI for the WWW, a.k.a World Wide Web.

[@kurjahko]

​@@unknownentity8256what browser was that

[@unknownentity8256]

@@kurjahko Erwise, also to be very specific WWW was created by Tim Berners-Lee but it was nothing but hyperlinks & looked like a confusing line of code for an average person. Erwise was the first browser that had a graphical UI that was simple & easy to use for a normal person that had no IT skills. Erwise was a school project of Kim Nyberg, Teemu Rantanen, Kati Suominen, Kari Sydänmaanlakka and they created Erwise but it still was unfinished project when they graduated, Berners-Lee was so inspired by this project he travelled to Finland to encourage the group to finnish the project but they lacked funding so it was discontinued. Still the innovation & concept for a Graphical User Interface Browser was created in Helsinki University Of Technology 1992.

[@lifesabeach5405]

I will take my sausage to the summer cottage

[@Ramon-y8k]

I love old phones. Different colors, different styles, different ringtone.

[@nickgardner1408]

Hard to imagine but prior to 2002 almost everyone who had a cellphone had a Nokia. Now you couldn’t pay someone to switch to a Nokia.

[@replynotificationsdisabled]

Cept all the cell tower radios are Nokia

[@formatique_arschloch]

Yep, today's Nokia is a Chinese company. The name NOKIA (cell phones) was sold ages ago so it has nothing else to do with the Finnish NOKIA except the name.

[@mikrokupu]

@@formatique_arschloch Nokia Phones trademark was sold to the Finnish company HMD, who have produced Nokia phones in China. The NOKIA networks company is alive and kicking, producing telecommunications infrastructure.

[@mikrokupu]

I have a Nokia smart phone :) The Finnish company HMD bought the trademark.

[@Repsikka]

@@mikrokupu @formatique_arschloch erm, no. Nokia the company licensed Nokia the brand to HMD global, HMD global used it for years, but as the licensing fees cost HMD global money and they're in trouble, sales aren't what they want to, in 2024 HMD global stopped using the Nokia brand to save licensing fees. they still make phones though, you can google HMD Skyline, HMD Fusion, HMD Pulse pro, HMD Hyper or HMD Crest max amongst other models.

[@pisanellodipucciopisano8353]

Good old times. I miss you SO much.

[@stattel113]

Surullista miten nokian kaltainen huippuvuosinaan satojen miljardien yritys saatiin tuhottua.

[@squidcaps4308]

NOkia on verkkojen tekijä, oli sitä ennen ja jälkeen puhelimien. Voi ajatella niin päin että puhelimet tuli mukaan vain sen takia että jos kansa haluaa niitä niin valtion pitää rakennuttaa verkot. Siitä tuli vähän liian hyvin menestynyt tuote että sirtyivät sille osastolle. Mutta kuluttajien mielihaluja on pirun vaikeeta ennustaa, kun taasen verkkopuolella asiat liikkuu hitaasti ja ne on hyvin ennustettevissa. Sen takia Nokian puhelinpuoli kusahti, firma ei ollu oikeen kovin hyvä ennustaan mitä ihmiset haluaa. 90 luvulla haettiin toimivuutta enempi kuin toimintoja ja siinä Nokia oli hyvä, se teki käytännöllisiä luureja. Sitten kun siirryttiin lähemmäs ja lähemmäs älypuhelimia, niitten toiminnot alkoi olla isommassa roolissa. Huomaa hyvin kamerasta, kun oli selvää että kamerat on tärkeitä ne teki markkinoitten parhaimmat kameraluurin joka kelpais vieläkin kuvien ottoon.

[@tresorberlin3207]

Sisulla siitä selviää kuten olympialaisista. Vitun luuseri kansa.

[@Velehokala]

@@squidcaps4308 2/5 Yap. didnt read

[@druidofthefang]

I'm from Finland and I got my first mobile phone in 1996, when I was 3 years old. I couldn't really do anything else than call my grandma with it, and it was my parents old phone, but it was mine.

[@TopiasSalakka]

I got mine in 2001 I believe, when I was 7. Still have the same phone number too, I vividly remember choosing it because it had the license plate of Donald Duck's car as the last 3 digits.

[@Garbox80]

​@@TopiasSalakka A man of culture I see. Very much approved.

[@butchfajardo8832]

That is the most durable phone I ever had! I hope they bring it back!

[@ilesalmo7724]

They have brought modern takes of the phone. The brand is now owned by teh Finnish company HMD

[@SuperDalton72]

They made the best phones in the world,, and text and picture and sound..and durability and one week battery life,,

[@Hipas_Account]

It's awful that nowadays you almost couldn't imagine a phone lasting a week with one battery, even though we've experienced it. Then again of course much less was expected from a phone back then so easily understandable, still very sad though. Being a Finn of a certain age, I remember being a kid during these times, not as early as this video was recorded but still while Nokia was on top, I remember the comparisons between each of us kids with our phones, was a fun time.

[@SuperDalton72]

@@Hipas_Account The phones then where like a calculater and huge battery. Today a computer with a small battery..and fragile. if some company used old and new. does a phone need to be flat?

[@zapador]

Loved my Nokia 7110 and 8850. The latter still the best looking phone ever made!

[@jarkko4732]

"It's difficult to associate Finns with any instrument used for talking" So true 😂😂

[@turvis94]

3:39 Kolli K 😂

[@pasip1974]

As a Finn I have never seen anything more Finnish than this 😅 Especially the guy who was surprised about the idea, that you can actually be together with your loved one. Like whaaaat? 😅😂

[@Arisekiwi]

I remember when mum got her first cellphone, we called it the Brick it was the size of one :P then I remember the Nokia 3310 was my first phone

[@Tero92]

3310 absolutely Goated phone. But the 5110 shown in tue beginning was a beast, my brother or his friend had dropped it in a lake at their summer cabin for the weekend and it still worked after they found it.

[@seilahqlq1]

Nokia was my first cellphone here in Brazil, in 2001. You could change the front/cover of the cell to make it colorful and everything was so affordable. I loved the snake game in it. I reached last level.

[@teemuramula7660]

Nokia 3310 was indestructive device😂 once i got mine in snow several months and when snow melted it was found in spring it still got battery and worked good😜

[@hansa2026]

Hey, this exact thing happened to my friend who lost it while snowboarding! He found the phone later in summer and it just worked straight away again. All the melting snow and months of rain, and it took it like a champ. Lujia vehkeitä.

[@haleybear222]

KäNEEKuh 😂

[@abnurtharn2927]

My first phone was a Nokia 2110. Bought it in 94 I think. Was working in Africa and didn´t even have cellphone covering there LOL.

[@mlg_iesus8898]

This was cool to see! Karen Armstrong died 15 years later, in 2014. RIP

[@theParticleGod]

And they squandered it all by not being willing to compete against their own product. These guys could have made an equivalent to the iPhone 5 years before Apple did. The architecture of Apple's iPhone was heavily informed by Nokia's internet tablets; A touch screen device dominated by a large battery, running a Unix operating system that is always connected to wifi or cellular data. Nokia management didn't bring the technology to market until years after Apple and only made one model, the legendary Nokia N9, before pulling the plug on the whole thing. The open source operating system they created lives on in the form of Jolla''s Sailfish OS that can be installed on some still existing models of Android phone. The Nokia brand has been licensed out to a company that rebrands generic devices from China. R.I.P. Nokia Mobile.

[@thewkovacs316]

yup

[@HatBilly2008]

I been there it is a great place.😊

[@anugillsten5996]

@@HatBilly2008 it's starting to be cold a typical winter😁 but yes, beatyful country, too close at Russia is the scariest part only.

[@unknownentity8256]

@@anugillsten5996 Eeeh we are not scared.

[@Piia2023]

3:08 is my brother 😊

[@avatarion]

The good ol' days.

[@MidWitPride]

I remember when our family got 1Mb/s ADSL connection(as opposed to 0.054kMb/s of modem) in 1999 and I could browse the web for as long as I wanted to and the pages loaded in only a few seconds. We also were one of the few families in my school who had a printer, so my school mates came to my house to print out cheat codes for PS1 games.

[@dahlesa]

Back in the day you could sell your old phone and it was still working at 100%.

[@jarnom85]

Nokia has portfolio of needed core technology patents to produce any mobile device that communicates via GSM, 4G or 5G networks. Infact Nokia is telecommunications patent giant, no manufacturer can produce mobile phone without Nokia patents. Or well, they can but they cannot connect to any of current mobile networks.

[@mikaseppanen1632]

Well.. Dony Stand Still...Think.

[@snafaofficial]

I have still one of those! Im from Finland!

[@Danny-wv8ec]

ahh playing snake in class in 2001, i'd give a kidney to get back to that.

[@ZMAN_420]

I remember those phones, the good old days!

[@heh9392]

My dad still works for Nokia, although it's the connections side instead phone making side.

[@peabase]

Which phone making side? That side is the 'kilometre factory'.

[@heh9392]

@peabase Nokia didn't only produce phones, it did many other things.

[@peabase]

@@heh9392 Don't I know. I worked both sides.

[@ramiroacosta7529]

Advanced in thier time

[@l0wr3y]

Such a shame Nokia was unable to adapt to the smartphone era. Clinging on to an obsolete operating system

[@Adonis-qb5ze]

I have a nokia brick that I haven't used since it got released, I went to check on it and it has max charge

[@joshnizzle]

Now everyone for the most part would rather have a text than call. My fav type of phone call? A text

[@nonime9566]

I can tell you right now that I would NEVER use my phone in the sauna

[@tdkoc]

Loved my Nokia 100 mobile phone, the one that was out from 1992. Only reason I had to ditch it was expensive service, analog service being very iffy under power lines, and digital was slowly becoming a thing. At almost half the size of, my buddy’s digital Ericsson was tantalizing. The I went digital, and it’s all downhill from there, e.g. PrimeCo.

[@loganflatt]

I helped develop the first PrimeCo website back in 1997/1998.

[@anugillsten5996]

Hello,i am from Finland 🎉🇫🇮

[@anugillsten5996]

25 year old dokument😂😂😂 I was NO problem then with mobilephones in school -no... ehat an old dokument😂❤🎉

[@BengVideo]

do you use a mobile phone?

[@anugillsten5996]

@BengVideo of course, but but not that old as in dokument, i think we all have a smartphone-most of us. Do you have a Phone?

[@ManunKanava]

Hello, I am from Finland too! 🇫🇮

[@BengVideo]

@@anugillsten5996 i was just joking nowadays everyone has one hahah

[@ayroau]

0:53 she is pretty even in Finnish standards

[@tja3663]

90's Finland was much better than 2024

[@ronswansonsdog2833]

3:48 the origin of phones replacing socialization

[@craig3916]

ohh how things change....... 25yrs later is the world better off .? anyone ? didn't thinkso

[@thegreycat2260]

"The best-selling mobile devices are the bar phone Nokia 1100 and Nokia 1110, released in 2003 and 2005, respectively. Both models have sold over 250 million units."

[@olli-pekkajuusola3068]

Great "Nostalgic" mobile phone memories :). My first mobile phone was: Ericsson GA628 mobile phone.

[@OffGridCofee]

Nice phone

[@palmlimit9297]

😂❤ it’ll never catch on😂

[@GreySectoid]

Finland mentioned

[@Anxious-Jay]

As a Finn... yes

[@fododude]

Got my phone in 2007. Hard to believe.

[@Eric-qo8vv]

Almost 26 years old here

[@OlafsLeftArm]

1:23 Oh... little did he know what would happen in 2007 😂

[@brendansmith7842]

They could have pulled ahead. Technology moves fast. Complacency has a history of being very bad for businesses and creating opportunity for others. They didn't realize the importance of the smartphone and stuck with a horrible os (symbian)

[@tepetti]

I had forgotten how much people used to smoke in the 90s and 00s

[@foxtrotbravo]

Finlands been mentioned. To the square!

[@HairyButWhole]

That was the peak of phones. Now everybody are slaves to apps.

[@Lawh]

The best sometimes get sloppy and then they start losing focus. It's time to revitalize the old Finnish mentality of pushing through any problem with new inventive tech.

[@peabase]

It's more like Nokia focused too much, on Symbian of all things. Only afterwards, it was realised that Nokia was not a software company, but a hardware company. It may very well have survived as an Android licensee.

[@Lawh]

@@peabase I think that keeping Nokia afloat with Android would have been an amazing choice. However, they chose to start playing around and started losing. Hopefully they get back in shape one day and start hiring Finns to do amazing stuff again. I also remember something about their CEO being hired by another major company after they left Nokia, which was rather suspicious.

[@peabase]

@@Lawh Nokia back into consumer electronics, with Finnish factories? That would be a reenactment of Kari Kairamo's fateful time at the helm. By now, handphones, too, have become a commodity, just like TVs in Kairamo's days. Jorma Ollila was invited to chair Shell's board of directors. Nothing suspicious about that. I think we've heard enough conspiracy theories around Nokia.

[@Lawh]

@@peabase Wasn't him. It was probably someone lower down. And I would imagine Finnish factories are out of the question until first someone invents something that can't be reproduced elsewhere. But at least having Finnish invention injected back into the market would probably be a great thing from how to get invention in the first place to enacting it.

[@peabase]

@@Lawh You must mean Stephen Elop, who went from Nokia CEO to Executive VP at Microsoft following the sale of Nokia's mobile phone business to Microsoft. I think it was just deserts. Elop may not be primarily to blame for Nokia's failed mobile phone business, but he did ruin it once and for all -- at Microsoft. Elop's high-flying career was effectively over by then.

[@konejuzzi4554]

Nokia was so big part of Finnish economy… I liked Nokia 3310, C5-00 and 5800 Xpress Music phones.

[@jackson5116]

Finland could do it faster than the US, because it isn't anywhere near as large as the US. Back in 1999 I had a friend who had a cellphone, and often times he'd lose signal from dead-zones. You have to remember how large the US is, and how long it took to get towers up to cover as much as it does today- even today it's still not 100%, we're so huge and so diverse that there are still spots where cell phones can't get through the wilderness.

[@janne6657]

US is about 28 times the size of Finland, but it also has 60 times more people. So it's not that good of an argument to say the size was the issue.

[@älylaite]

As they say in Finland… there goes the sauna? 😂

[@peabase]

It's in places like Germany were speaking while in the sauna is considered sacrilegious. For us Finns, it's the opposite. Incidentally, I had an old Nokia (read: HMD) that I wanted to retire, and I was curious whether it would start complaining about the heat in the sauna, just like it had on a trip to Singapore previously. It did, but it refused to die all the same.

[@Kamalkhanuja]

Super

[@TheVoiTube]

Without NMT - Nordic Mobile Telephone networks there would be no Nokia. The issues assosiated with NMT gave reason to invent alternative network methods. These networks launched at 81 in Sweden and Norway, but only 82 in Finland.

[@Kiss__Kiss]

Yep!! those were the times. I remember my first cellular phone, I had installed in my car in 1993.

[@lutomson3496]

Mine was 1987

[@derby3763]

For once I would like to see a report or travel show about Finland where they wouldn't go to the sauna, go to Lapland to see reindeers or drink vodka.

[@torpmorp1324]

Yeah. And Finland doesn’t even have a vodka brand. Koskenkorva is not a real vodka and Finlandia is owned by the Americans. 😅 And Finland is a beer country. We’ll they make good gin and whiskey here too.

[@formatique_arschloch]

As a Finn I get you. Reindeers are not everywhere, reindeer is not a traditional Finnish dish either. Only in Lapland. Elsewhere it's ridiculously expensive. Same with salmon soup; perhaps more common but salmon is super expensive these days. We are not a vodka nation so much anymore.

[@formatique_arschloch]

​@@torpmorp1324Oh yes, it was sold to muricans.

[@cassu6]

Impossible. Especially avoiding sauna as all Finns want you to go to one :P

[@s0g3]

im in finland too what a coincidence

[@Qario6279]

why they call it 60 minutes but the video only have 11 minutes ?🤔

[@jeshkam]

I'm watching this on a Nokia smartphone.

[@formatique_arschloch]

Which has nothing to do with the Finnish Nokia, except the name. The name was sold to a Chinese company ages ago. Nokia Networks on the other hand is still a Finnish company, one of the biggest in the world in it's line of business.

[@SamiL-ym3no]

⁠@@formatique_arschloch Wrong. HMD Global has the rights to the name and it'a a Finnish company.

[@Neojhun]

@@formatique_arschloch HMD Global was a staff exodus spin off. They bought the rights to Nokia consumer products. Then setup an HQ on the next highway interchange 6.9 kilometers away. It's basically the SAME PEOPLE running the company. You are ironically wrong.

[@Neojhun]

@@formatique_arschloch The company is a Osakeyhtiö, finnish for Limited Liability Company. Legally not Chinese, though highly likely there is non control stake Chinese financial investors.

[@Repsikka]

@@formatique_arschloch it's not that hard to google and be sure, instead you decided to spread misinformation, Nokia the company LICENSED Nokia the brand to HMD global, which is a Finnish company, now the license is up and the Nokia the brand has been returned to Nokia the company, and HMD global now makes phones under their own HMD brand, example. HMD Skyline, you can google it, just takes 5 min to find out and you don't have to spread lies.

[@kwasigentleman5051]

it hurt me that Nokia just dead naturally.

[@maliq4746]

omg i miss nokia sond & snake

[@OriginalThisAndThat]

Back in the days, Nokia's phone covers ment to protect other stuff not to be hit by your prone.. Now its other way around.

[@KeljuKkojootti]

Yllättävän hyvää englantia on puhunut 80-luvulla syntyneet, ne 80-luvulla syntyneet joihin törmännyt puhuu paljon tönkympää englantia

[@evs251]

Nokia, with Airbus still make TETRA phones that look like this and can take a serious beating. Those ones are used by the emergency response groups

[@Phil_Melone]

6:45 i just googled her name i think she passed away. 😢

[@johnwarthunder1990]

funny how little things have changed. I was 3 when this was shot.

[@lisawallace921]

❤

[@wdvnge]

Im a finn born in the 90’s and ofc my first phone was the 3310 😄

[@henriikkak2091]

I was fourteen in 1999. One of those teens could literally have been me 😂 Two years later, I was an exchange student in Canada. My host family had an old Nokia brick phone, as we called it. They were really surprised to hear that Nokia was a Finnish company and not Japanese. In fact, they didn't believe me. They thought I made it up for some strange reason.

[@Ms-Islamova]

real talk: I am looking for a dumb-phone(or "old type phone" or whatever you want to call it) since my current is dying, and they are from what I can see still pumping out "new" versions of "old" nokias and i've heard despite having limited features there is a difference, anyone have any tips? prefer nokia

[@pro12222222]

Nokia ❤ Lesson in R&D capital allocation.

[@JanneTrabantti]

Hello bob

[@squidcaps4308]

Racking 400$ phonebill in 1999 meant international calls. There was no way to get that by just sending text messages or calling local. Also, in Nokia's history mobile phones are a blib, they started as a tech company by building networks and they still do it. Phone was more about having consumer phones so government wants to pay for the network and it sort of got out of hand, the phones became too successful to dismiss as the main product. Selling infrastructure to government is so much easier business than trying to chase consumer habits.. and that is why Nokia failed in the end as mobile phone maker. It is still VERY successful at selling infrastructure to governments. Networks progress slowly, standards are in use for decades and it is all very rigid and predictable. Consumers are not.

You could get that huge bill by buying sodas from vending machines and surfing on mobile inernet.

[@peabase]

You need to reread Nokia's company history, properly this time. The company started out as a pulp mill in the town of Nokia. We oldies still know the brand best from rubber boots.

[@geoms6263]

Machines should work. People should think.

[@TheGalacticIndian]

Machines should also think. People should love.

[@pvahanen-dh5rt]

Why don't people WASH themselves? In Finland we WASH!

[@Kartel_0]

We used to be a great country

[@Nakkisampyla]

Kyllä

[@sixpackkorkman8069]

Suomi mainittu

[@reinokarvinen8845]

as I remember something like 60 years ago. finnish government didn't meddle in the free market and let phone companies rise or fall. maybe that is the birth of nokia. he he my grandfarther had as a phone number 2. there were less than 10 in that part of the district

[@janne5766]

They sold nokia to microsoft, and nokia was first who invented touch screen phone back in 2003-04 but nokia leaders didint like it..too bad

[@No_Camping]

_"Finns are the shyest, least talkative, most sullen people in the world"_ They are when they are chat-banned.

[@ManunKanava]

Sad that the Nokia mobilephones died during the Windowsphone years, but luckily Nokia is still a big techcompany in mobiletechnology. Alive and strong. 💪 Yes Nokia mobilephones did come back, but they were not really made by Nokia, but Nokia branded phones by Hmd global that is a company from Finland with some old nokia people. Soon Nokia brandname on mobilephones will again die since HMD now has started making phones with their own brandname.

[@torpmorp1324]

Well, there’s Nokia Networks. They don’t produce phones. Nokia does have a lot of licenses as well.

[@ManunKanava]

@torpmorp1324 Yes I very well know that. I am from Finland

[@Noisyboy850]

Phones would never catch on I doubt it can be the future

[@MsKimifer]

I...did not know Finland as the land of saunas and Santas.

[@Jupex]

Legacy destroyed by incompetent people

[@unknownentity8256]

Well yea some idiots decided that Lumia was a good idea, instead of just going with Android. R.I.P