As we anticipated at the end of March, the agreement related to the purchase of Nokia by Microsoft will be closed during this month of April. To be more specific, this time we have learned that the final signature will take place on April 25. This agreement (valued at $ 7.4 billion) will not only serve for Nokia's mobile division to become part of Microsoft, but will also entail a name change in this mobile division: Microsoft Mobile will be the new name we will have. What to get used to from now on when referring to the mobiles of this manufacturer.
This name change will lead to the disappearance of Nokia from the mobile phone sector. We are talking about a manufacturer that has a history of more than two decades in the mobile phone market, and in all this time it has left us wonders such as some memorable mobiles that have probably once passed through our hands.
In fact, if we look at the history of Nokia, we will see that its journey in the world of mobile telephony begins back in 1984. Although it may seem like a relatively close year, we are talking about a time when having a mobile was practically impossible. During this year, Nokia dared to launch a mobile phone device called Mobira Talkman. To get an idea of the design of this equipment, we simply have to think about the radio equipment that soldiers use in war movies of the 1990s; the Nokia Mobira Talkman design was identical to these teams.
Given the success of this team, Nokia decided to bet everything on the world of mobile telephony. We jump to the year 1987 and we have a new team of this manufacturer: the Nokia Mobira Cityman a mobile of 800 grams of weight intended for modern man to man city that needed to be in touch with acquaintances wherever he was. If today it seems excessive to us that high definition televisions cost more than a thousand euros, in this case we are talking about a mobile phone that cost about 4,000 dollars. Even taking into account the value of the dollar at this time, customers used up in a matter of days all the stock that Nokia brought to market.
And practically without realizing it, we are reaching the year 1990, a year that will probably be much more familiar compared to the eighties. Until this year, mobiles were a product destined for the elites of the social classes. In the late 1990s, mobiles reached more than 100 million users. Today, the figures show that mobile phones have reached 1.4 billion people around the world. The year 1990 was very important for Nokia, since it left us as memories for the history of mobile phones such as the Nokia 7110 or the Nokia 5110.
