Do you know what phone is the hottest right now?
Neither iPhone 16, nor Huawei/Honor/OPPO/Xiaomi, etc.
Rather, the tears of the times:
Nokia!!!
Nokia recently released a replica of the classic 1999 model, the Nokia 3210.
Just looking at the appearance, it's like traveling back to the millennium, and briefly introduce the function points of the new machine.
Although it looks like an old man's machine, it supports 4G network and dual SIM dual standby;
The camera has 2 million pixels, and the retro filter is suitable for shooting CCD;
It supports Type-C charging socket, which is stronger than iPhone 14;
The 1450mAh large battery can be charged for three days at a time, completely saying goodbye to electricity anxiety;
You can scan it with Alipay, but you can't pay with WeChat
The price of the machine is 379 yuan, with a total of black, blue, and gold colors. Of course, Duck Duck is not here to sell the machine, because the Nokia 3210 has been sold out!
Nokia officially said: "The urging news has been received, and the factory production line is full of sparks." What other models would you like to see recreated? ”
There are so many classic Nokia models!
Today, I will talk to you about Nokia's past and present life.
Nokia is a company from Finland, and there is a river called "Nokia".
The company was founded in 1865 by a mining engineer named Frederick Edelstein.
In the beginning, Nokia was just a wood pulp mill and a rubber processing plant.
It wasn't until the end of the 19th century, when the founder handed over the job to Leo Michelin, that Michelin saw the radio industry begin to grow, and the new officials decided to expand their business into the telecommunications industry and add a telecommunications division.
This telecommunications division was the prototype of what would later become Nokia.
By 1967, Nokia had become a major Finnish company in a multi-industry industry with industries such as paper, chemicals, rubber, cables, pharmaceuticals, natural gas, and oil.
However, Bjorn, the president at the time, felt that the future of the telecommunications industry was the trend of technological development, so he established Nokia Electronics.
In 1982, Nokia produced the first mobile phone Senator of the Taipei-Europe mobile phone network, and has been engaged in telecommunications and making telephones ever since.
But in the mid-90s of the 20th century, Nokia was on the verge of bankruptcy due to too many industries.
At that time, Nokia decided to break the kettle and cut all the traditional business, leaving only the mobile phone business.
As a result of this decision, Nokia's mobile phone market share has been ranked first in the world for 14 consecutive years since 1996.
Who hasn't heard Nokia's ringtones!!
Nokia's classic short message ringtones, ringtones
It wasn't until 2007 that Apple released the iPhone and challenged Nokia.
But Nokia, as the No.1 of the No.1 at that time, didn't care about Apple at all. Nokia executives once said in an interview that "the iPhone will always be a niche market".
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Apple really didn't do Nokia at first, but Samsung took Nokia and became the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer.
In 2013, Microsoft acquired Nokia's mobile phone business for 5.4 billion euros.
Nokia officially withdrew from the mobile phone market, and an era came to an end.
These classic phones have also become a thing of the past.
Nokia 2600, sold 135 million units, and now only can type on a nine-square grid keyboard can blame them......
The most classic handshake animation "science and technology are people-oriented" (science and technology are based on changing shells)......
Nokia 8800, released in 2005, sold for 15,000
A real local tyrant mobile phone, I feel a little expensive when I look at it again after today.
Nokia 5300, released in 2006, the design of the red and white machine is really beautiful, the main function of playing music, it was the golden age of the Chinese music scene at that time, "Thousands of Miles Away", "Invisible Wings", "The Sun Never Sets", "Chinese Words", ......
Nokia 5230, released in 2009, priced at 1500 yuan.
This one is a real fire, and a total of 150 million units have been sold. As a touchscreen phone without a keyboard, it's really comfortable to watch videos with it.
But with Nokia's withdrawal from the mobile phone market, is Nokia not good now?
No, no, no! It made a fortune with a proper silence.
Although you are not buying a Nokia phone, the manufacturer of the mobile phone you buy has to pay Nokia
Why?
Who makes people patent......
After all, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and after Nokia did not sell mobile phones, it transformed from a mobile phone manufacturer to a network infrastructure service provider.
In 2006, Nokia bought Noxi Communications, and in 2016, it bought Alcatel-Lucent, occupying 30% of the communication business market share.
In addition to selling communication equipment,
Nokia can still do nothing and make money lying down
By selling patents!
As of 2023, Nokia has more than 100,000 active patents in LTE, 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G, including about 20,000 patent families, of which more than 4,500 patents are 5G essential patents.
Even the "mobile communication device with camera", that is, the mobile phone with the camera function, is its patent......
Thirty percent are GSM SEPs, about 25% are WCDMA SEPs, and about 2 percent are LTE SEPs.
Speaking of human words is
You just have to build a smartphone
You have to use some of Nokia's patents
Otherwise, your phone won't be up to standard
You don't pay? Nokia will sue you!
In 2011, Nokia sued Apple, and Apple eventually paid Nokia a lump sum compensation of about 420 million euros, but in 2016, Nokia sued Apple again......
The angry Apple scolded Nokia as a "patent troll", hahahaha!
There are also BlackBerry, HTC, Huawei, vivo, OPPO, Samsung, HP, Lenovo and other manufacturers, almost all of which have been sued by it......
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This trick has almost surrounded all mainstream manufacturers, and everyone can only pay obediently.
For each 5G mobile phone, Nokia will be given 271 yuan in patent fees......
Huawei's patent license fee for a single mobile phone that follows the 5G standard is capped at $2.5.
In 2017, Nokia mobile phones announced their return, partnering with HMD Global and being produced by Foxconn, which is not a pure Nokia phone.
Speaking of Nokia mobile phones, why are so many people still buying them now?
Because of feelings!
Nokia is the first mobile phone of most of the post-80s/90s, just like Wang Xinling's song "Love You" can be swiped on the whole network, for the post-80s/90s, when I see it, I think of my youth.
We miss the days when there was no Wifi, when our parents were still very young, we still had a lot of time to "waste", and the distance between people was very close, and the pace was not so fast......
Finally, I don't recommend buying this Nokia phone, after all, it's really useless, but if you like it, feel free~