{"id":16823,"date":"2024-12-08T10:39:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T09:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/08\/lord-of-the-ringtones-nokia-celebrates-pop-culture-status-by-opening-design-archive\/"},"modified":"2024-12-08T10:39:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T09:39:04","slug":"lord-of-the-ringtones-nokia-celebrates-pop-culture-status-by-opening-design-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/08\/lord-of-the-ringtones-nokia-celebrates-pop-culture-status-by-opening-design-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord of the ringtones: Nokia celebrates pop-culture status by opening design archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mobile phones we loved then lost will go on show in Finland and online to reveal history of bestselling brand<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone remembers their first Nokia,\u201d says Mark Mason, who joined the telecoms company\u2019s design team back in its 1990s heyday. \u201cWhen you say the name, it evokes a memory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is not as hyperbolic as it sounds \u2013 in 1998, the Finnish consumer electronics company was the bestselling phone brand in the world, with 40% of the world market and 70% of the UK market.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/dec\/08\/nokia-mobile-finnish-brand-ringtones\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/cdcd0aca0796c7937d4d884df63af81f48a1c515\/131_361_6175_3705\/master\/6175.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=59b7890a6f32b859091b525f772a8bef\" title=\"Lord of the ringtones: Nokia celebrates pop-culture status by opening design archive\" \/>The mobile phones we loved then lost will go on show in Finland and online to reveal history of bestselling brand<br \/>\n\u201cEveryone remembers their first Nokia,\u201d says Mark Mason, who joined the telecoms company\u2019s design team back in its 1990s heyday. \u201cWhen you say the name, it evokes a memory.\u201d<br \/>\nThis is not as hyperbolic as it sounds \u2013 in 1998, the Finnish consumer electronics company was the bestselling phone brand in the world, with 40% of the world market and 70% of the UK market. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mobile phones we loved then lost will go on show in Finland and online to reveal history of bestselling brand \u201cEveryone remembers their first Nokia,\u201d says Mark Mason, who joined the telecoms company\u2019s design team back in its 1990s heyday. \u201cWhen you say the name, it evokes a memory.\u201d This is not as hyperbolic &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/08\/lord-of-the-ringtones-nokia-celebrates-pop-culture-status-by-opening-design-archive\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lord of the ringtones: Nokia celebrates pop-culture status by opening design archive<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16823"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}