With 16 years on the mobile market Nokia has shelled out a whopping 1 billion smartphones. No longer the top phone maker it was in the last 90’s and early 2000’s Nokia now finds it difficult to sell devices with partner Microsoft. Without Nokia smartphones woldnt be where they are now. If you’re old enough at some point one of your first cell phones was a Nokia.
The first smartphone known as the Nokia Communicator hit the open market in 1996; at that time, Nokia owned the mobile market. Today Nokia is placing its future on a Microsoft partnership, and, should Windows Phone 8 fail to grab a larger market share, the company could find itself placing its future hopes on the Google Android OS.
To put smartphone sales in perspective, it took 15 years to sell 708 million smartphones (1996 through Q3 2011) but only the next one year to sell an additional 292 million.
