Nokia S 14 Years Of Mobile Phone Supremacy Ended In An Afternoon
13/07/2026IN 2005, NOKIA SOLD its billionth mobile phone, a budget-friendly device that went to a customer in Nigeria. By then, the company, based in Espoo, Finland, was making one of every three cellphones globally.
But just nine years later, the mobile-device maker offloaded its entire handset division to Microsoft for pennies on the dollar, compared to what it had been worth at its peak.