Cell Phones

The major players
There are several different players in this industry. Some are just focusing on manufacturing handsets while others also develop other parts of the mobile phone system. The four major players in the handset manufacturing industry are Siemens, Nokia, Sony/Ericsson and Samsung.
Siemens
In 1979 Siemens entered the mobile phone market. They got the mission to develop a mobile phone for the NMT network to companies in Scandinavia. The software was developed in Sweden, the hardware in Norway and the design in Denmark. The project was successful and in 1981 Siemens had developed the first mobile phone on this market. In the 1980s Siemens started to cooperate with Spectronic AB, and together they developed portable NMT phones. In 1997 they introduced their first GSM mobile phone with colour display.
Nokia
Nokia's mobile phone production started in the 60s with the radiotelephones made in the electronics department, and continued later with the joint venture company Mob...