Ponsel Nokia Legendaris: Sebuah Kenangan

Microsoft bermimpi untuk menyediakan komputer di semua meja; Nokia bermimpi untuk menyediakan ponsel di setiap saku. 

Di antara semua pionir dan pemimpin di segmennya, masing-masing telah melangkah jauh; dan akhirnya memilih untuk bersatu. 

Bisnis ponsel Nokia yang melegenda selama 14 tahun sejak 1998, sekarang menjadi satu dengan Microsoft. 

Berikut adalah kilas balik dari ponsel-ponsel yang telah diluncurkan oleh Nokia selama ini. Gambar dari NOKIA MUSEUM

Nokia N97, June 2009. Highlights: sliding QWERTY keyboard, 32 GB storage.

Nokia 3310 launched in 2000 is perhaps the most popular and loved handsets of all times.

N93, smartphone with camcorder

Nokia 616

7710, first attempt at touch screen

Nokia 1101

N-Gage, Phone + gaming gadget.

Nokia 7610

Nokia 5185i

Nokia 9000il

Nokia 1100

2.Mobira Talkman, 5 kg, 1984, one of the world's first transportable phones. 
3.Mobira Cityman 900, 800 g, 1987, one of the world's first handheld phones. Cityman 900 brought much fame to Nokia in 1987 by Mikhail Gorbachev using it in Helsinki, Finland to call his minister in Moscow.

Nokia 9500

Nokia E71 with a QWERTY keyboard was released in July 2008.

In 1992, the company decided to give up all its non-telecommunications businesses and concentrate solely on telecommunications. The rubber, cable and consumer electronics divisions were sold off. Nokia was one of the key contributors in developing the Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) which got adopted as European standard for mobile technology in 1987.

Image: Nokia 7510

In the early eighties, about the same time as the first IBM PC Nokia's computer division Nokia Data produced a series of personal computers called MikroMikko. MikroMikko 1, was released on 29 September 1981. However, the PC division was sold out and became part of ICL, and later Fujitsu. Nokia re-entered the PC market in August 2009 with the introduction of the Nokia Booklet 3G mini laptop.

Image: Nokia 7190

Nokia 5100

Nokia Cityman 1320

The seeds of Nokia Corporation was sown in a rubber products company founded in 1865. It worked in many industries with lots of ups and downs and finally decided to focus on telecommunications industry. The company has even had the trauma of one of its CEO's committing suicide, supposedly owing to bad business.

Image: Nokia 2651 

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, is Nokia's first full-touch smartphone.

N9, 2011, the last major release before switching to Windows Phone OS.

Nokia E66

The Nokia N95 released in March 2007, with a 5-megapixel camera and sliding multimedia keys. It got to be called as the iPhone killer.

Nokia 1508

7280, the lipstick phone--no number pad, no touch screen, almost no sale :-), but a daring innovation

Nokia X2

Nokia 7260

The Nokia 808 PureView, February 2012 

Nokia E6

770 Internet Tablet, first device to run on Maemo OS which later became MeeGo.

N9, 2011, the last major release before switching to Windows Phone OS.

Nokia 7610 Supernova

The Nokia N8, September 2010. It is the first handset to have a 12-megapixel autofocus lens.

Nokia N72

Nokia was also known for very high quality CRT and TFT LCD displays. This business was sold to ViewSonic in 2000. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the corporation ran into serious financial problems, mostly owing to businesses that were too diverse. These problems probably contributed to the company's CEO Kairamo taking his own life in 1988.

Image: 6800 curveball, candy bar, butterfly

Nokia 6650

Nokia NM706i

8210 tiny, with internal arial, unusual in those times.

On a network set up by Nokia in Helsinki, the world made its first commercial GSM call--on July 1, 1991. Harri Holkeri the Finnish Prime Minister made this call. Focus on telecommunications and early investment in GSM technologies made the company the world's biggest mobile handset manufacturer by 1998. This unchallenged reign continued for 14 consecutive years until 2012 when the Apple and Android waves swept across and Samsung snapped the major market share.

Image: Nokia 9300

Nokia Corp and Mobira Oy together made some some of the first major telephone devices. The three noted ones are :

1.Mobira Senator, 9.8 kg, 1982

Nokia 6600 from 2003 had a VGA camera, Bluetooth and expandable memory. It was the first Nokia and Symbian device to sell over a million.

Nokia Cityman 900

Nokia 7250

Nokia 1110

Nokia X5

Nokia X7

Nokia N-Gage

Communicator 9000, coveted by every business guy.

Nokia 5800i Xpress Music

Nokia N73 released in August 2006, with 3G and a front camera.

Nokia 3105

Nokia 1011 manufactured in 1992 is the first popular GSM phone. 1011 is its launch date, 10 November.

The celebrated ringtone Nokia tune was introduced in 1994 with the 2100 series of handsets.

Image: Nokia 1011 Telekom