For anyone who's old enough to have had an early Mobile phone, it's more than likely that you probably would have owned a Nokia. I remember my mobile phone was a Nokia brick but the thing was almost indestructible. I once dropped my Nokia 3310 off the back of my motorbike at 100km/hr, found it on the side of the road with the battery cover broken up.
With their failure to really enter the smartphone market, Nokia went into steep decline as a mobile manufacturer and I haven't really seen a 'new' Nokia phone in Australia in years. A lot of business I have worked for have a lot of brand new Nokia mobile phones in 'stock' and use them for low level workers in areas where the phone may be easily destroyed or lost and are easily replaceable.
But, it seems that Nokia may be no more and will be rebranded to Microsoft Mobile Oy, a subsidiary company to Microsoft and most likely their new Mobile devices company.
Nokia have issued a leaked statement to it's suppliers detailing that Microsoft will receive all rights and obligations of the Nokia devices and services business which includes their agreements with suppliers customers and partners.
It appears that Nokia will still exist in some form retaining some of it's other companies such as the Nokia Solutions Network...
R.I.P little buddy.
Link: Nokia Power Users - Leaked Letter
