Nokia: Professional services, innovative products

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)