Fact for a rainy day

Also Nokia made rubber battons for police, they got nickname "Nokian nuoriso kasvattaja" meaning "Nokia youth educator".

@Juhnimus Wasn't it "nokialainen nuoriso-ohjaaja", "The Nokian Youth Councelor"?

Nokia is also a town next to Tampere.

So they're the ones who make those shoe-phones that spies use!

@SydneyCarton That's a Smart-looking shoe. I bet all the ladies have to Control themselves around him, lest they get 86ed and the situation descend into Kaos.

@europeanstew Haha, good one. That's what I first thought of when I saw it too.

@europeanstew
Your sole comments are a shoe-in for top prize of the day.

@SydneyCarton lel

@potatoe4life I'm surprised nobody else thought of this joke.

@SydneyCarton i kinda did, but idk how to put on a picture. i need mer lab coat to do dat. and i have to learn how to do dat. :P

@potatoe4life First off, you need to get to 500 comments so you can make a custom avatar.

@SydneyCarton k

@SydneyCarton i know i mean idk how to pst a picture

@potatoe4life Oh, okay.

Knowing Nokia, Finland's boots are going to last longer than anyone else's.

I think Sweden and Denmark are fighting to decide what's better: umbrellas or raincoats xD

@Fabian Umbrella for convenience, raincoat for effectiveness.

@Sirsir
Yeah, that umbrella won't keep Sweden from getting covered in mud once he slips, but Denmark's coat will prevent a good deal of it.

@chaosgirl13 But with a raincoat you're legs are exposed so they'll get muddy anyway

@DigitalExistence
Either way, both are gonna be doing some laundry and taking a shower.

@Fabian Looks like a poncho to me.

I still believe that Nokia will surprise whole world someday.

My first cellphone was nokia.. Shocking from rubberboots to handphone..

@Zuperkrunch welll of course. why do you think nokias are so tough

@SchrodySweden because they're throwing it in their sport game..

@Zuperkrunch *Jim Carrey voice* ALLllllLLLLLL RIGHTY THEN!

*when you're looking outside your window, waiting for it to rain so you can read the comic* ಠಗಠ

I used to be a rally driver here in the US, and Nokian Hakkapeliitta tires were favorites. Didn't know about the human footware, though.

Is ... is Finland wearing Phone Shoes???

@PaxRomana yes he is.

@PaxRomana: Phone boot(h)s----

Nokia invented the world’s first winter tyre in 1934
https://www.nokiantyres.com/company/about-us/history/first-winter-tyres/

@finnhare Rubber boots, winter tires, and cell phones.

What the hell is this business plan and how is it working???

@Theomniadept well, this is a very good question, i dont have any idea about that.

@Theomniadept Same way a rapid mail service company becomes a major credit card company.

Times change, they adjust.

@Theomniadept

Government contracting and umbilical cord to government. Nokia has at the times acted as extension of government economic policy, they have handled stuff like corporate mergers government has wanted to happen, to do favors to government to maintain position for future government contracts.

Rabbit hole doesn't end at rubber products and telecommunications products. It only starts there. Depending how you look at things, you might include pretty much every byproduct coming from main business sectors. Main precursors of modern day Nokia are a rubber factory, a paper mill and a cable factory. One might argue that they have actually absorbed couple military units into corporation, army signals laboratory and army signals depot.

Basically main products.
1. Pretty much anything you can make of rubber.
2. Same thing with paper.
3. Electric power.
4. Cables.
5. Communications equipment for both civilian and military applications.
6. Consumer electronics.
7. Computers, for civilian and military applications, from desktop PC's to artillery firing position terminals.
8. Software for random things.
9. Electronics components like capacitors.
10. All sorts of chemicals you can make out of byproducts of paper mill or rubber factory.

It is probably easier to list things Nokia hasn't produced than what they have produced if you include all the corporate mergers they have done for the government, especially if you include subcontracting precursors of all subsidiaries they have owned at some point in their history have done in their history.

Few random examples.

-Small arms, anything from civilian hunting rifles to assault rifles. They handled mergers of couple arms producers in early 90's. It would have been nice if they had used their own corporate brand there, I'd love to own a semi-automatic Kalashnikov derivative with Nokia Disconnecting People stamped on side of receiver.
-Small arms ammunition. Yes, they have supplied dictatorships with ammunition. Small arms ammunition can be shipped as sporting goods to countries where civilian ownership of small arms extremely restricted and government is under arms embargo by all civilized countries. Like China was following Tiananmen Square Massacre.
-Explosives.
-Subcontracting parts of heavy weapons like mortars and heavy artillery.
-Light bulbs.
-Thermos bottles.