Nokia Mobile Facts

* In Asia, the digit 4 never appears in any handset model number, because 4 is considered unlucky in many parts of South-East/East Asia.
* Nokia is currently the world's largest camera manufacturer, as the sales of its camera-equipped mobile phones have exceeded those of any conventional camera manufacturer.
* 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).
* 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."
* 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.
* The world's best-selling phone is the Nokia 3310 / 3330 .It has sold 126 million units from its launch in 2000 until its "retirement" earlier this year!!!
* This is a milestone because the combined total of all Nokia Phones sold between 1991 and 1998 is just 100 million.
* If all the Nokia 3310/3330 phones sold were laid end-to-end, the line would stretch from Helsinki, Finland to Santiago, Chile - over 13,500 kilometers!!!
* In 1991 Nokia manufactured 0.8 million phones.In 2004 Nokia manufactured 207.7 million phones, which equals 6.5 phones per second!
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