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Old 03-05-09, 05:03 PM   #1
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1) 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."




2) The world's first commercial GSM call was made in 1991 in Helsinki over a Nokia-supplied network, by Prime Minister of Finland Harri Holkeri, using a Nokia phone.




3) Nokia is currently the world's largest digital camera manufacturer, as the sales of its camera-equipped mobile phones have exceeded those of any conventional camera manufacturer.




4) 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).




5) The Nokia corporate font (typeface) is the AgfaMonotype Nokia Sans font, originally designed by Eric Spiekermann. Its mobile phone User's Guides Nokia mostly used the Agfa Rotis Sans font.




6) In Asia, the digit 4 never appears in any Nokia handset model number, because 4 is considered unlucky in many parts of Southeast/East Asia.




7) Nokia was listed as the 20th most admirable company worldwide in Fortune's list of 2006 (1st in network communications, 4th non-US company).




8). 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. (Except for Series 60 based handsets like the Nokia 6600)




9) Nokia is sometimes called aikon (Nokia backwards) by non-Nokia mobile phone users and by mobile software developers, because "aikon" is used in various SDK software packages, including Nokia's own Symbian S60 SDK.




10) The name of the town of Nokia originated from the river which flowed through the town. The river itself, Nokianvirta, was named after the old Finnish word originally meaning sable, later pine marten. A species of this small, black-furred predatory animal was once found in the region, but it is now extinct.
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How did you dig this thread


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hmnnn... when i noticed that there's not a single comment for such a good article, I thought to appreciate it.

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Thanks nandini..Thanks smoothie
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Welcome ji...on behalf of both of us.
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I see you're from pune.. You mind telling where exactly from pune? I did my masters from there
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I see you're from pune.. You mind telling where exactly from pune? I did my masters from there


Viman Nagar!!!

do you know this place???
where did you do you masters from?? I mean which college?
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Yes i know where vimaan nagar is, I did my masters from Bharati Vidyapeeth IMED, Kothrud.. I stay at kothrud and bhavdhaan , Vimaan nagar is pretty far from that
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hmmm really interesting... i wonder how i missed this ... anyway good info
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Hey nice info....BTW, I didn't get the 4th point....
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Hey nice info....BTW, I didn't get the 4th point....
Morse code is an encoding format used long time back in maritime
vessels to communicate between ships. This was also used to
transmit messages using telex machines and such. Each alphabet
is a combination of dots and dashes.

for example S = . . . and O = - - -

so if a ship wants to send an SOS signal they transmit

. . . - - - . . .



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Morse code is an encoding format used long time back in maritime
vessels to communicate between ships. This was also used to
transmit messages using telex machines and such. Each alphabet
is a combination of dots and dashes.

for example S = . . . and O = - - -

so if a ship wants to send an SOS signal they transmit

. . . - - - . . .



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Ohh...i got it !!!!
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Yes i know where vimaan nagar is, I did my masters from Bharati Vidyapeeth IMED, Kothrud.. I stay at kothrud and bhavdhaan , Vimaan nagar is pretty far from that
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