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Nokia, especially its mobile phone business, was a source of pride for Finns, largely as it brought their country on the map both economically and technologically. The Mobira Cityman 900 for one became well known as the "[[Fan Nickname|Gorba]]" when [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] president [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] was seen using a Cityman during a press conference. During the late 90s to early 2000s, Nokia was a dominant force in the mobile phone business, having been the largest worldwide vendor of mobile phones and smartphones. While as [[Americans Hate Tingle|not as popular in the States]] due in part to differing mobile standards requiring manufacturers to produce bespoke versions for the American market (or in the case of Sprint and Verizon, [[Dolled-Up Installment|rebadged]] [https://www.phonearena.com/news/Nokia-6215i---Pantech-rebranded-phone-available-with-Verizon_id1499 Pantech CDMA handsets] under the Nokia brand which share next to no underpinnings with Nokia's Eurasian lineup), they did gain a following in its native Europe and especially in Asia–at one point, most cellphone owners in the [[Philippines]] and other Asian countries own a Nokia (most likely a 3310 or a variant thereof, or if he/shethey isare affluent, a [[wikipedia:Nokia 6600|Nokia 6600]]) to the point that you could count non-Nokia users with just a hand or two. Their partnership with [[Microsoft]] and subsequent struggles to stay relevant caused their decline and near-downfall, though Nokia did focus more extensively on its telecommunications infrastructure business and on Internet of things technologies after their mobile phone business was spun off as Microsoft Mobile.

The Nokia mobile phone brand was revived in 2016 when they partnered with HMD Global (now known simply as HMD), a company run by former Nokia executives. HMD develops and markets phones through the Nokia brand under licence, and unlike the Nokia of yore, which owned factories in Finland and Asia, has its production outsourced to FIH Mobile, a division of Foxconn. Phones marketed by HMD Global are either marketed as "pure, secure and up-to-date" in reference to them using a stock Android interface rather than a heavily-modified distribution, or capitalise on [[Nostalgia Filter|nostalgia]] as in the case of their revivals of the 3310, 8110 and more recently the 5310. Besides telecommunications equipment and smartphones, Nokia also exists as a [https://www.nokia.com/licensing/brand-licensing/ brand licensing firm], allowing interested parties to manufacture and sell products using the Nokia brand name under licence, while at the same time leveraging the Nokia brand's iconic status. One such case is when the Indian online store Flipkart started selling smart TVs under license from Nokia.