10 Things you don't know about NOKIA

1) The ringtone "Nokia tune" is
actually based on a 19th century
guitar work named "Gran Vals" by
Spanish musician Francisco Tárrega.
The Nokia Tune 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.

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.