Nokia: Professional services, innovative products
Several telecommunications equipment producers have launched great inventions in this era of information, where people need to be always accessible anywhere they are. Nokia has also come with its newest product, the Nokia 7110, which allows users to access the world's current most desirable objects: the Internet and mobile communications.
In the Nokia 7110, the Internet meets the cellular network. Global information meets individual choice and movement. And that creates a whole new set of requirements for a mobile phone.
Users who need to access and to surf the Internet regularly while away will need this new handset. The Nokia 7110 is not only for speaking, it is also for reading and writing. So the display is large and sharp, with 65 rows of 96 pixels, so it can show large and small fonts, bold or regular, as well as full graphics. Great for services, messages and icons, even better for games.
Faster and easier
Many of the most important new features of the Nokia 7110 -- large display, microbrowser, Navi Roller, predictive text input -- were developed to make it faster and easier to access services available over the Internet using a mobile phone.
Once getting started, users can have the service access numbers sent as a message to their phones, which then automatically do all the configurations. Or users can key in the numbers manually. The implanted microbrowser works like a microbrowser on the Internet. When a site found, users can save the address in the favorite folder. Or users can input addresses using the keypad.
Wherever available, users can enjoy the value-added services, including entertainment, infotainment, and transactions. By using this smart handset, users can get useful information such as currency rates and flight schedules or checking their bank account balance or paying bills.
Different services work in different ways. Some will send information to the phone automatically, once users have requested the service. Others, users can select and access in much the same way as they use menus in a personal computer application.
The design of Nokia 7110 speaks for itself, but one feature deserves special mention: the slide. Press the trigger and the slide snaps open. The slide protects the keypad when you are not using the phone. Snap it open to answer a call and click it closed to hang up. The Navi Roller functions both as a scroll key and as a selection key: Roll to scroll through names and numbers stored in phone book or through the phone's menus, submenus and option lists.
The Nokia 7110 can standby for up to 11 days with the standard battery -- and for up to 18 days with the extended battery. And if users want to travel light, they can just choose the Slim Battery and the Nokia 7110 weighs only 141 grams. Its dimension is: 125mm in height, 53 length and 24 mm in width.
Dynamic display
The display is an illuminated high-contrast, full-graphics display and up to 6 lines for headers, text and soft key texts. The dynamic display shows large/small/bold font, signal, battery and status indicators as well as last digit and full display clear and full screen cursor editor. The keypad is one-touch voice mail button. Memory function is up to 1,000 names in phone and up to 3 numbers and 1 text field for each name. There is also a capacity for 10 last outgoing/incoming and unanswered calls with time stamp.
The GSM data transmission has a 14,400 bps support with automatic error correction to send and receive faxes, e-mail. The Nokia 7110 also has the Mobile Terminated Unstructured Supplementary Services and built-in infrared link.
The Nokia 7110 is a dual band: it works in both GSM 900 and GSM 1800 networks. It automatically uses the network with the strongest signal, and switches networks even during a call within the same operator's network. So you get a more reliable connection, fewer dropped calls, and fewer "Network busy" messages.
Nokia offers total GSM systems, with everything from digital mobile phones to transmission and switching as well as extensive services and network management solutions for building, efficiently operating and developing these networks. Having supplied GSM technology to 87 operators in 39 countries, Nokia ranks as one of the world's leading suppliers of GSM networks.
The company is paving the way to the mobile information society with its innovative products and solutions. Nokia is the leading mobile phone supplier and a leading supplier of mobile, fixed and IP networks including related services. It also supplies multimedia terminals and computer displays. Headquartered in Finland, Nokia is listed on the New York, Helsinki, Stockholm, London, Frankfurt and Paris stock exchanges and employs more than 53,000 people.
For the first nine months of 1999 net sales totaled EUR 13,400 million. Sales for both infrastructure solutions and mobile phones continued to grow rapidly in all geographic regions with most rapid growth in the Americas.
Nokia Chairman and CEO, Jorma Ollila, said: "Our performance in the third quarter gives us every reason to be satisfied. The very strong sales growth reflects our increased market share and the further consolidation of our number one market position in mobile handsets. We have a solid base to meet the demands of the Mobile Information Society and our ambition is to continue to grow faster than the market. I am happy to note that our net cash-flow from operations for the first nine months of the year was positive at EUR 2,257 million, further strengthening our strong financial position.
"Based on the very strong third quarter, we feel confident that our full year 1999 sales growth will exceed 40 percent", said Ollila commenting on the future.
One EUR equals to US$1.037 as at Sep. 30 1999.
Cell phone leader
A leader in the cellular industry in many markets in Asia Pacific, Nokia provides innovative, industry-leading and market relevant technology and products to around 30 diverse markets in the region.
The company is committed to helping operators worldwide to set plan, deploy, manage and develop the system with a full service house of seamless solutions covering operational support services, systems integration, end-to-end solutions for service platforms, integrated applications, and e-business. The company will also help acquire the competence an operator may need to run its network or develop a competitive advantage, with structured knowledge transfer to your people. With this, Nokia want to help the telecommunication industry in enhancing its entire business performance, whether in mobile, fixed, IP or a combination of all three. (icn)