In 1999, “60 Minutes” correspondent Bob Simon took viewers on a journey to Finland to report on Nokia, the former mobile giant that once ruled the global market with its cell phones. This episode offers a unique glimpse into the rise and fall of the iconic company that revolutionized the way we communicate.
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I miss the good old days.. At that time, Finland was still a Finland where doing business paid off. Now the land has been sold in every way and donated to others without asking the people. A country where the happiest people in the world pay the highest taxes in the world, and at the same time get the least value for their taxes. A country that once fought for itself, whose last veterans don't even get to celebrate that day on Independence Day. Well, we have a Nokia.. Or do we?
Super
Now we have toilet paper and rubber boots..
Nokia was so big part of Finnish economy… I liked Nokia 3310, C5-00 and 5800 Xpress Music phones.
1:10 What?? Kännykkä doesn’t mean "a little hand." Where the hell did that info even come from? The way he says it also sounds like Russian! 😂Completely wrong way to pronounce it! If you need a straight translation, it could be like "handy" or "something that fits in the hand."
Wait how does the girl have a Valley Girl accent? 7:56
Bettter times in Finland
Suomi mainittu
Error: @1:17 , it’s not kanika. Kännykkä (pronounced as Can-nooh-kuh).
Nokia 3310 was indestructive device😂 once i got mine in snow several months and when snow melted it was found in spring it still got battery and worked good😜
Then Sanna Marin happened
ohh how things change…….
25yrs later is the world better off .?
anyone ?
didn't thinkso
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I remember those phones, the good old days!
Pielinen 👍
Today Finland almost alone country to have a cheap plan for 4g- 5G with unlimited data. It also works very well if I compare to Sweden. Im actually using a phone with dualsim so I can use a cheap dataplan 😂
I love old phones. Different colors, different styles, different ringtone.
This guy's voice is so relaxing. Everyone in 1999 was technically loveable. Nowadays, who's loveable?
Tu Tu Tu
Turan Turie
And they squandered it all by not being willing to compete against their own product. These guys could have made an equivalent to the iPhone 5 years before Apple did. The architecture of Apple's iPhone was heavily informed by Nokia's internet tablets; A touch screen device dominated by a large battery, running a Unix operating system that is always connected to wifi or cellular data. Nokia management didn't bring the technology to market until years after Apple and only made one model, the legendary Nokia N9, before pulling the plug on the whole thing.
The open source operating system they created lives on in the form of Jolla''s Sailfish OS that can be installed on some still existing models of Android phone. The Nokia brand has been licensed out to a company that rebrands generic devices from China.
R.I.P. Nokia Mobile.
Hello I'm Steve Jobs and I'm watching this video from my grave. Oops I've just lied to you I've been cremated.
omg i miss nokia sond & snake
Nokia was my first cellphone here in Brazil, in 2001. You could change the front/cover of the cell to make it colorful and everything was so affordable.
I loved the snake game in it. I reached last level.
This didn’t age well at all.
People seem so different in videos from before social media. RELAXED, reasonable talking speed and manners. This also applies to Americans in the 1990s.
Old old old
ok omg when we like talk about Nokia for me personally it takes me back when i was like younger. Also not in that time period because i didnt exist back then but a decade after like late 2000s and early 2010s in which i liked and still now Technology in general and remembering when my parents had these old Nokia phones the 7610 my Dad and a 3110 my Mom had and many other phones from back then that i would play with. Quite sad that i dont have these phones today as a collection because the one that my Dad had he throwed it for recycling and the other one i lost it since like 10 years ago in August when i was 10 where i last had it. I left it in place by accident and forgot about it near a driveway in our Summer house in Akrata Greece at night a day before where we were about to leave to go at my grandpa's Summer house in the mountains near Karditsa Greece. And at that day i remember that before we left to go there i searched for the phone but guess what and didnt excpect that the phone dissapeared on where i last left it in only one night and left with no phone that day and if i hadnt forgot about it i would have it in this very day as something memorable from back then but it happened now i guess
Finland had an inFinaty, oh.
I…did not know Finland as the land of saunas and Santas.
why they call it 60 minutes but the video only have 11 minutes ?🤔
Without NMT – Nordic Mobile Telephone networks there would be no Nokia. The issues assosiated with NMT gave reason to invent alternative network methods. These networks launched at 81 in Sweden and Norway, but only 82 in Finland.
as I remember something like 60 years ago. finnish government didn't meddle in the free market and let phone companies rise or fall. maybe that is the birth of nokia. he he my grandfarther had as a phone number 2. there were less than 10 in that part of the district
I have still one of those! Im from Finland!
My first phone was a Nokia 2110. Bought it in 94 I think. Was working in Africa and didn´t even have cellphone covering there LOL.
Got my phone in 2007. Hard to believe.
Look at the views! Looks like nobody cares what 60 minutes has to say anymore!
Phones would never catch on I doubt it can be the future
Is novo nordisk gonna turn out like Nokia? I sense a lot of complacency with that company. Nokia did as well, to the iPhone, although it survived and lately has been strengthening unlike blackberry – but still only a small portion of its peak value, not adjusted for inflation. If I were to choose a company to invest in NOW, I'd actually choose Nokia, but everyone would laugh at me.
But oh crap 9:09 damn were they ahead of their time. That's wild.
Oh how things have changed. I'm going back to Nokia or someone. I'm tired of Samsung. Their greed is endless. Don't believe me? Try repairing a screen on a Z fold 2 phone. 🙂 I loved my Nokia in the 90s. Solid as.
Nokia, with Airbus still make TETRA phones that look like this and can take a serious beating. Those ones are used by the emergency response groups
6:45 i just googled her name i think she passed away. 😢
Almost 26 years old here
Loved my Nokia 7110 and 8850. The latter still the best looking phone ever made!
3:39 Kolli K 😂