Finland is sometimes called NokiaLand because the company Nokia comes from Finland and due to the fact that many people in Finland have a Nokia phone. A recent study shows that Nokiaīs market share in Finalnd is 86%.

For the third year running, the most popular phone was still the old classic, the Nokia 3310 with a 5% market share. In fact, the 56 most popular phones were all made by Nokia. At the high end of the range, the most popular phone was the Nokia N70. Nokia held an overwhelming 99% share of the smartphone market in Finland.

From the other manufacturers, Korean phone manufacturer Samsung held about 4% the market, Sony Ericsson 3%, Benq-Siemens 3%, and Motorola less than 0.5%. Other manufacturers made up 1% of the market and 3% of the phones in the study were not identified.

Nokia’s market share has hardly changed in the past three years. Samsung and Sony Ericsson have slightly increased their market share, while Motorola and Siemens have lost out, researcher Antero Kivi told the Finnish news agency STT.

Markku teaches facts about Finland, cell phone throwing and the S60 the operating system.

This has nothing to do with Nokia, but I promised to promote my friends Sony Rolly blog. Whatīs Sony Rolly? Follow the link and find out!

Darla Mack has a post about Anssi Hautabackas Nokia Collection. Itīs huge and Darla asks if anyone can top that? I donīt exactly know how many Nokia phones Anssi has, but I know another finn that also has a huge collection of cell phones and most of them are Nokia. About-nokia.com proudly presents alias MäCsä (from a finnish cell phone community) cell phone collection (picture above). MäCsä says he had 101 phones during the year 2005!

The Nokia Power Pack DC-1 has reserve power in a portable package, so you can take the equivalent of up to three batteries with you and recharge your device when you need it. Nokia Power Pack DC-1 is compatible with Nokia 2mm charging interfaces, the power pack has two charge output cables so you can charge two phones at the same time. Available globally, it will cost an estimated 105 euro, without taxes.

We Say: Well if you cannot make better batteries this is one way to tackle the problem...



tags: Nokia, Power, Pack, DC-1

The 79th edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists is up at Route 79!

According to Finnpanel 1,6 million Finns (older than 9 years) have a radio on their cell phone. You might say "thatīs not much", but that is actually 36 % of the finnish population (in 2005 the figure was 17 %).

Other figures from the newlu released research say 16 % use the radio on their cell phone weekly. I was little suprised about that radio usage was most popular for kids under 15 years of age and when at the same time 60 % of 15-24 years old have a radio on their cell phone.

Well what does this mean? You propably know the song "Video killed the radio star"? Excellent song! Maybe we will have a new song "Cell phone resurrected the radio star :-)



* Finnpanel is owned by TNS Gallup Oy and A.C. Nielsen Finland Oy and is specialized in panel research focusing on Television and Radio Audience Measurement. The original research press release (in finnish). More about Finland (Wikipedia) or NokiaLand.

I took this short video clip when we were at our summer place. Itīs Johannes (5 years) fishing. Watch the whole video itīs getting better at the end :-)

I made the first software update for my new Nokia N95. If you are a Nokia smartphone user you might know you can update your phone software over the air or using a PC and the Nokia PC Suite. Itīs very easy and I recommend doing it. Usually the updates are small bug fixes, but if you are lucky you might get a better camera by updating your phone - Itīs all about software these days...

My wife really needed a new phone so I gave her my Nokia N70 and got myself a new phone. Ok, lets call it a gadget or should I say device? Anyway compared to the N70 my new phone, a Nokia N95 has a lot of new features and cannot be called a phone only. It has a 5 megapixel camera, GPS, WiFi (WLAN) and a lot of other nice features.