I know people in the UK that have had a Nokia 9000 communicator for several years, but they've only just come out over here and are being viewed as the next cool gadget. Even Wired Magazine (normally a great believer in the fact that the future is...
Nokia still sells handsets at margins most CEOs drool over and there is hope for things like MMS messaging, but the overall business of selling equipment to operators who then sell voice minutes and data bits is in a virtual mire.
Orange has signed up Nokia, a long-time provider of network equipment to the company, as a three-year supplier of kit for MMS services. Nokia rival Ericsson also supplies MMS infrastructure to Orange, a France Telecom unit, in several countries.
That particular Nokia offering stands out from most MMS-related ads because it takes the office as its setting. Over the past week we've had confirmation that UK networks will increasingly accept MMS messages from each other.
But this, I believe, isn't why Nokia became a great company. In short, modularity became part of Nokia's DNA. A potted history many of you will be aware of sees Nokia move from a vertically integrated paper company - owning forests, mills and paper...
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