Nokia History[2000 to 2010]

Product releases

Nokia launched the Nokia 3310 in late 2000 as the successor of the Nokia 3210. It has become one of the most popular devices of all time. The Nokia 1100 handset in 2003,[32] shipping over 200 million units, is the best-selling mobile phone of all time and the world's top-selling consumer electronics product, and contributed to the company's rise in developing markets.[57] Nokia was one of the first to recognize the market opportunity in combining a game console and a mobile phone (both of which many gamers were carrying in 2003) into the N-Gage. The N-Gage was a mobile phone and game console meant to lure gamers away from the Game Boy Advance, though it cost twice as much.[58]

Nokia Productions was the first mobile filmmaking project directed by Spike Lee. Work began in April 2008, and the film premiered in October 2008.[59]

In 2009, the company reentered the personal computing market, announcing a high-end Windows-based netbook called the Nokia Booklet 3G.[49] The company also entered the smartphone market.[60]

Symbian OS

Symbian was Nokia's main smartphone operating system until 2011.

Symbian was popular among the smartphone market during the 2000s. Some popular Symbian-powered devices include the Nokia N95, a popular slider; Nokia N82, with Xenon flash; Nokia E71, offering a full "qwerty" keyboard and premium build; and the Nokia N8 with the newer Symbian^3.

The 2012 Nokia 808 PureView had a record 41-megapixel camera, and represented the end of the Symbian platform after its replacement by Windows Phone

Linux devices

Nokia N9 running MeeGo Harmattan
Nokia's first Linux devices were the Nokia Internet tablets and the Nokia N900, which ran Debian-based Maemo.[]

The Maemo project later merged with Intel's Moblin to create MeeGo.[63] The Nokia N9 was released before the project was abandoned in favour of Windows Phone. Development continued under the name Sailfish OS.[64][65]

The Nokia X family of devices running Android was Nokia's final sally in Linux-based smartphones.

Series 40

Series 40 is a phone platform used in feature phones, mainly running Java-based applications.[] It is the world's most popular software of mobile phones.

Nokia acquired Smarterphone, a company making the Smarterphone OS for low end phones and merged it with Series 40 to form the Asha Platform, which alsoedinherits some UI characteristics from Nokia's MeeGo platform. The Asha 501 was the first phone running the new OS.[68]

Reorganizations
Nokia opened its Komárom, Hungary mobile phone factory on 5 May 2000.[69]

In March 2007, Nokia signed a memorandum with Cluj County Council, Romania to open a plant near the city in Jucu commune.[70][71] Moving the production from the Bochum, Germany factory to a low wage country created an uproar in Germany.[72] Nokia later moved its North American Headquarters to Sunnyvale.

In April 2003, the troubles of the networks equipment division caused the corporation to resort to similar streamlining practices, including layoffs and organizational restructuring.[73] This diminished Nokia's public image in Finland[74][75] and produced a number of court cases and an episode of a documentary television show critical of Nokia.[76]

In June 2006, CEO Jorma Ollila left his position to become the chairman of Royal Dutch Shell[77] and to give way for Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo.[]

In 2008, Nokia exited mobile phone distribution in Japan.[79]

In 2009, Check Point acquired Nokia's network security business unit.

In February 2012, Nokia announced 4,000 lay-offs to move manufacturing from Europe and Mexico to Asia.[81]

In March 2012, Nokia laid off 1,000 employees from its Salo, Finland factory to focus on software.[82] In June 2012, research facilities in Ulm, Germany and Burnaby, Canada closed, costing more jobs. The company also announced 10,000 lay-offs globally by the end of 2013.[83]

In January 2013, Nokia terminated 1,000 employees from its IT, production and logistics divisions. The company planned to transfer about 715 jobs to subcontractors.[84]

Acquisitions

For a more comprehensive list, see List of acquisitions by Nokia.


The Nokia E55 from the business segment of the Eseries range
On 22 September 2003, Nokia acquired Sega.com, a branch of Sega to develop the Nokia N-Gage device.

On 16 November 2005, Nokia agreed to acquire Intellisync Corporation, a provider of data and PIM synchronization software,[86] completing the acquisition on 10 February 2006.[87]

On 19 June 2006, Nokia and Siemens AG announced the companies would merge their mobile and fixed-line phone network equipment businesses, creating Nokia Siemens Networks.[88] Each company has a 50% stake in the infrastructure company, headquartered in Espoo, Finland. About 20,000 Nokia employees transferred to this new company.

On 8 August 2006, Nokia agreed to acquire online music distributor Loudeye Corporation for approximately US$60 million.
In July 2007, Nokia acquired all assets of Twango, a comprehensive media sharing solution for organizing and sharing photos, videos and other personal media.[]

In September 2007, Nokia agreed to acquire Enpocket, a supplier of mobile advertising technology and services.[]

In 2007, Nokia agreed to acquire Navteq, a U.S.-based supplier of digital mapping data, for $8.1 billion[] and finalized the acquisition on 10 July 2008.

In September 2008, Nokia acquired OZ Communications, a privately held company with approximately 220 employees headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

On 24 July 2009, Nokia agreed to acquire certain assets of Cellity, a privately owned mobile software company,[95] completed on 5 August 2009.

In September 2009, Nokia acquired certain assets of Plum Ventures, Inc to complement Nokia's Social Location services.

In March 2010, Nokia acquired Novarra, a mobile web browser firm

In April 2010, Nokia acquired MetaCarta, a local search technology firm.

In 2012, Nokia acquired Smarterphone, a developer of an operating system for feature phones, and the imaging company Scalado.

Loss of smartphone marketshare

Originally launched in 2007, Apple's iPhone continued to be outsold and unfavoured by Nokia smartphones, most notably the Nokia N95 for some time.[102] Symbian had a dominating 62.5% market share as of Q4 2007 – ahead of Microsoft's Windows Mobile (11.9%) and RIM (10.9%). However, with the launch of the iPhone 3G in 2008, Apple's year-over-year market share doubled by the end of that year and iPhone OS (now known as iOS) operating system market share pulled ahead of Windows Mobile. Although in Q4 2008, Nokia retained a 40.8% share, it saw a decline of over 10% from Q4 2007, replaced by Apple's increasing share.[103] The Nokia N96, released in late 2008, proved to be much less successful, although the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic was mainly considered to be the iPhone 3G's main rival. Despite the success of the Nokia E71,[104] it was not enough to stop Nokia's smartphone market slide. On 24 June 2008, Nokia bought the Symbian operating system and the next year made it open source.[105]

In early 2009, the Nokia N97 was released, a touchscreen device with a landscape QWERTY slider that focused on social networking. It was a commercial success despite its mainly mixed reception. The N97's closest competitor was the iPhone 3GS. In 2009 several devices were launched, such as the Nokia E52, which gained positive reception.[106][107] However, Symbian market share dropped from 52.4% in Q4 2008 to 46.1% a year later. RIM increased its share during the period from 16.6% to 19.9%, but Apple increased share from 8.2% to 14.4%. Android grew to 3.9%.[108]