Nokia origin story chronicled in series ‘Mobile 101’: Inside the making of a Finnish tech thriller


Instead of jumping on the opportunity to make a controversial film emphasising Nokia’s cataclysmic downfall, Lalli took a different route with ‘Mobile 101’, opting to dedicate the first season to the origin story behind Finland’s crown jewel. — AFP Relaxnews

LOS ANGELES: Almost anyone over 30 has owned a Nokia phone at some point in their lives, but not many people know that the iconic brand was created at a Finnish company formerly specialising in rubber boots.

Once the world’s biggest mobile manufacturer at the turn of the 21st century, the company was nearly wiped out of the smartphone market by Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android well before 2010, and ultimately sold its handset division to Microsoft in 2013.

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