September 3 2013: Nokia, the iconic mobile phone brand that    helped  fuel the communication revolution in India -- and many other geographies,  has been sold to Microsoft. ( see main story on our home page). We pay pictorial tribute to the company and the name that for many in this country  was synonymous with their first ever handset.

1. The Nokia headquarters in  Espoo, Finland 

2. The India factory of Nokia in Sriperumbudur, near Chennai  

3. The first Nokia mobile phone and one of the world's first  commercial handsets, the Mobira Cityman 900 of 1987  

4. The classic Nokia 3310,  one of the most widely sold mobile phones at the turn of the century 

5. The Nokia Pureview 808 with a jumbo 41 MP Carl Zeiss optics  

6.The Lumia 520 launched in 2013,  crashed the price barrier for smart phones

7. The "Made For India In India"  Nokia Asha phone

NOTE:

Nokia, as a company has been around from 1865, when mining engineer Fredrik Idestam established a groundwood pulp mill in the town of Tampere, in southwestern Finland.  Post 1967, the modern Nokia corporation was into paper products, car and bicycle tires, footwear , communications cables, televisions and other consumer electronics, personal computers, electricity generation machinery, robotics, capacitors and  military communications  equipment. In 1987, it divested almost all of this and became  pure telecom company. Even after the announced  sale of the mobile phone business to Microsoft, it retains the  network business: it bought out the Siemens part of Nokia Siemens Network (NSN) last year for $ 2.25 billion