Back in high school
I went to High School in Beijing from 2002 to 2005. It was the time when coloured screen and 3D ringtones got popular and more importantly it was the time when Nokia left other manufactures deep under the ground. When I first entered the high school, my mom gave me her Samsung cellphone. I couldn't remember what it was, but it was sold for about 500 USD at the time. It had a regular keypad hidden under a flippable cover and a small square screen located at about the top 30% of the phone. In addition, I remembered the phone was very thin and had a green screen (maybe orange). Soon it was replaced by a Nokia 8310 given by my cousin. My first impression was that the keypad on the phone blinked when it rang; plus the design of the phone was just amazing at the time. I loved it, even if it was both thicker and heavier than the Samsung I had. It had the style I wanted because after all, a cellphone is just used to call and text back in the days; also it was used to play some games when people are really bored. In less than a few months, both 3D ringtone and coloured screen came to the market. We started seeing people carrying phones with coloured screen and phones making amazing sound at ringing; then we started talking about what haves have however many colour so on. Then I got myself a Nokia 3100, which had 3D ringtone (although not many), coloured screen (although it doesn't have the most colours) an it had the blinking keyboard when being rang. Then we started seeing many more different Nokias carried by our school mates. We could tell that they were happy with the phones. I think most importantly they are happy with who they are when they are carrying the phone because it seemed like the phones gave them a better self image to identify themselves. Nokia gave souls to their phones and the souls gave us styles and become part of our life.
What was really going on during high school?
Cellphones reached the end of its era. The technologies have made the cellphones receiving better signals, making clearer calls and doing efficient text messages and so on. This was why they were called cellular phones anyways.
I do not know where to find evidence to prove it but I felt that Motorola had always been more popular before my parents bought me my first cellular phone. To me, Motorola seemed like the real gold digger as they found the gold. However, Nokia advanced it and brought life to the “gold”. Eventually the big winner was Nokia.
What will happen now?
Apple brought the first iphone in 2007, which changed the Smartphone Market (Smartphone wasn't invented by Apple btw, it was still Nokia but Apple brought the first Multi-touch smart phone). Apple had its way of doing things, which is a really good way. Samsung has been producing very impressive Galaxy Line-ups as well with Android OS, and there are HTC, Sony, Huawei and so on who are also big players at the smart phone market. Where does Nokia stand?
Many people say that Nokia and Microsoft are both too late to join the battle. In my opinion, it is right on time. Microsoft has brought a lot of stylish features - the soul, into its new Mobile OS. Partnering with Nokia, the one who knows how to bring souls to the hardware device, will really again make smartphones closer to people than ever. Again, they will win and Nokia will win just like the a few years ago.
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