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SatWeb 5.8.2008

Nokia profits and broadband videomobiles send shares soaring

Nokia A and B shares rocketed in frantic afternoon buying on European markets following release of the company’s sales figures for the first six months of the year. *

The reason behind the excellent half-year result was that Nokia’s latest broadband mobile phone, equipped for full duplex video reception, has been a massive hit world wide. Until the release, Nokia had been seriously overshadowed in this expanding market by the satellite mobiles of its competitors.

Ilkka Tuomi, Chief Engineer at the Nokia Research Centre in Cambridge, commented that a distinct change in phone users’ behaviour patterns has been observable over the last two years. “Today, telephony without a visual image is regarded as unreliable. Many stores and businesses will no longer accept telephone orders or make contracts without seeing the customer’s face.”

Many telephone systems have now been fitted with detection devices that automatically screen out and remove virtual faces, and which warn users of forged images created by photo manipulation software. The most common technologies used in satellite phones, which involve the digital reconstruction of the facial image, have prompted much the same warnings. It is widely believed that the technology employed means that the sincerity of the expressions seen in satellite videotelephony cannot be relied upon 100%. According to Tuomi, Nokia’s solution to the problem is currently the only one that corresponds faithfully to the normal-sized video connection via the wired networks.

Nokia engineers have also paid considerable attention to the current fad for quality in videotelephony, where the resolution of the image has become something of a status symbol. The person receiving a call can always detect if the caller has a better or worse system than his own. “We all want to look our best, it’s only natural”, said long-serving fashion and beauty doyenne Lenita Airisto, who was certainly looking in excellent shape when we spoke to her in Bali direct from the Nokia press conference.

Toteuma-arvio 2026

Toteuma lyhyesti

  • Ilmiön toteuma: 5/5
  • Toteuma viiden vuoden tarkkuudella: kyllä; arviointi-ikkuna on 2003–2013
  • Toteuma väljemmällä aikahorisontilla: kyllä, erittäin vahvasti
  • Ilmiön ydin: laajakaistainen mobiililaite tekee kaksisuuntaisesta videoviestinnästä massamarkkinan ja muuttaa puhelinyhtiöiden kilpailua.

Älypuhelimet, mobiililaajakaista ja videopuhelut toteuttivat ilmiön maailmanlaajuisesti. Nokia ei jäänyt kehityksen taloudelliseksi voittajaksi, mutta yrityksen kohtalo ei ole ydinilmiö.

Johtopäätös: videomobiilin tekninen ja käyttäytymiseen liittyvä ydin toteutui erittäin vahvasti.