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Nokia To Connect "The Next Billion" To The Internet
By Phil Barker on February 11,
 2011 at 00:00,

We always knew that Nokia had lofty intentions, and following an interview with Nokia CEO Stephen Elop we now know the extent of the company's ambitions. Not content with being the world's biggest mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia is intent on connecting “the next billion” to the internet. Join us after the break to find out more...

Nokia has a huge presence in the global mobile phone market, selling more handsets than any of its rivals. While many rivals concentrate almost entirely on producing high-end smartphones for the western world, however, Nokia also has emerging markets firmly in its sights.

One of the press releases we received this morning – following an interview with Nokia CEO Stephen Elop – revealed that Nokia's next intention is to help emerging markets get connected, and enjoy all the benefits of the internet that we so often take for granted.

Nokia already has millions of fans in emerging markets like India, thanks to affordable devices like the Nokia X2, but it hopes to help get "a billion" users online. With more than 1.3 billion users already talking to each other on Nokia devices around the world, we can well imagine Nokia meeting its goal.

Nokia will even be able to help villages with little or no electicity, thanks to technology like its bike powered mobile phone charger. Thanks to this, users will be able to power their Nokias on the go, connecting to the internet wherever they are in the world.

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  • Tom

    You should have sold this website while Nokia was still relevant and you had the chance.

    The word ‘Nokia’ fails spell-check on my Mac. How irrelevant.

  • Tom

    You should have sold this website while Nokia was still relevant and you had the chance.

    The word \’Nokia\’ fails spell-check on my Mac. How irrelevant.

  • Uber-andy

    @ above this site is pretty much run by Nokia, it has zero impartiality.

    Today’s news highlights Nokia’s failure to develop good software. People have been saying this for years and years and today is an admission by Nokia. The Ovi software for the PC sucks in unimaginable ways too, its worse than a virus, creating multiple processes on Windows which slows machines to a crawl, yep it’s more of a resource hog than iTunes, which is saying something. It’s sad to see this, but it means Meego is a lame duck of an OS, you might as well toss your money down the drain than spend money on a Meego device which has no future. It shows the crapness of this site, as they haven’t even mentioned the fact that Windows Phone 7 is going to be used on some Nokia phones, good luck with this Nokia

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  • Franck

    Nokia will rebound from this difficult period and this idea to connect the next billion is a fantastic idea and goal. I think that the Nokia / Microsoft deal will help Nokia rebound and open the vast U.S. market to Nokia for smart phones but they must never neglect emerging markets. I think the X2-01 will be a success in this regard. The demise of Nokia has been greatly exaggerated. I think in 10 years people will ask the same questions about HTC and Apple as the market will change again. Apple and smart phone makers completely neglect emerging markets.

  • Tom

    @Uber-andy

    Agree. This propaganda site has epitomized everything that is wrong with Nokia.

    A failure to admit failure.

  • Klaas

    @Franck what are you on about? Firstly I’m not anApple fan but it’s pretty obvious Apple products are not aimed at emerging markets, and never will be, they’re “designer” products, it’s kinda like expecting Louis Vuitton jeans to be stocked in Primark, it’s never going to happen. Apart from Apple, every other manufacturer caters for emering markets, there are Android phones made by HTC that can be picked up for a £100 brand new too, with everything you want e.g. wifi gps etc, the Orange San Francisco is another great example, literally has everything anyone needs from a phone at a bargain basement price, the only thing holding back cheap Android phones are the low end 500mz processors but that’s expected. There is no competition I’d rather pay £100 Android device that has everything as opposed to a rubbish s40 device by Nokia with a clunky interface and lacking loads of features.