Nokia’s ’special’ SMS tone is morse code for SMS. More Nokia facts…
August 28, 2006 on 4:26 am | In Nokia, Interesting |
Trawling around, looking for something completely different, I stumbled across this bunch of Trivia facts on Wikipedia about the largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world - Nokia. Enjoy…
Apology: It has been brought to our attention that displaying the information we had gathered from Wikipedia’s article on Nokia may contravene Wikipedia’s usage policy and it appears we may have misunderstood this policy. For this we apologise. It was never our intention to display information that might breech any rules and so we have removed the full list. We apologise to those visitors who were expecting to find the full article here, but we had to do the right thing and remove it. Sorry. Thank’s to the Digg users for correcting us on this issue.
So, instead, here are a couple of trivia highlights from the wikipedia entry on Nokia, and we encourage people to take a look at the full contents of the article, which can be found here :
*The “Special” tone available to users of Nokia phones when receiving SMS messages is actually Morse code for “SMS”. Similarly, the “Ascending” SMS tone is Morse code for “Connecting People,” Nokia’s slogan. The “Standard” SMS tone is Morse code for “M” (Message).
* Nokia is currently the world’s largest digital camera manufacturer, as the sales of its camera-equipped mobile phones have exceeded those of any conventional camera manufacturer.
* Unlike other modern day handsets, Nokia phones do not automatically start the call timer when the call is connected, but start it when the call is initiated. (Except for Series 60 based handsets like the Nokia 6600)
[Extract from Nokia trivia on Wikipedia]
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12 interesting facts about Nokia you may not know……
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Twelve interesting facts about Nokia you may not know…:
– The “Special” tone available to users of Nokia phones when receiving SMS (text messages) is actually Morse code for “SMS”
– The ringto…
Trackback by textually.org — August 28, 2006 #
Nokia phones are great, especially the S60 serie. thanks for the interesting facts!
Comment by [GEEKS ARE SEXY] Tech. News — August 29, 2006 #
You missed their best fact! They used to make rubber boots/wellies before someone came to them needing some plastic casing.
Comment by doktored — August 29, 2006 #
Very interesting indeed.
Steve
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Comment by Steve — August 29, 2006 #
Actually, 4 definitely does appear on the handsets in many (all?) Asian countries.
Interesting facts, though.
Comment by Jon — August 29, 2006 #
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Pingback by 12 interesting facts about Nokia you may not know… » myownshit.dk — August 29, 2006 #
Well nice to know some hidden stuff about nokia..
Comment by Karthik — August 29, 2006 #
Thats really interesting!
Keep up the great work. I loved the ‘SMS’ morse code fact.
Comment by web design uk — August 29, 2006 #
I cannot believe you didn’t already figure out the morse code thing for urselves.
Comment by me — August 29, 2006 #
@jon
[..] the digit 4 never appears in any handset MODEL NUMBER [..]
Comment by ase — August 29, 2006 #
Um this triva is fairly pointless as when i first got a txt on my old nokia the first thing i noticed was it was morse for sms. And with a poor knowlage of morse i could guess that the other was connecting people as it’s thier slogan.
Comment by matt — August 29, 2006 #
useless info, but fun!
Comment by Joris — August 29, 2006 #
One of the really irritating things about nokia is that they dont support standart AT codes like nearly all other handsets. When connecting to a computer a software modem (that translates the regular AT codes to nokia language) is used. Ofcourse nokia charges for the programs that has the software modem. Therefore a lot of handset connection software cannot handle nokia phones (if on linux you can, however use gnokii to handle it)
Comment by DeepCore — August 29, 2006 #
Nice info, I knew some stuff, didn’t know about morse code though
Comment by Ivan Minic — August 29, 2006 #
[…] Trawling around, looking for something else entirely, I stumbled across this bunch of trivia facts about the largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world - Nokia. For example, did you know the ‘Special’ tone available to users of Nokia phones when receiving SMS (text messages) is actually Morse code for ‘SMS’.read more | digg story […]
Pingback by 12 interesting facts about Nokia you may not know… » News around the World — August 29, 2006 #
Did you know that the …–… ringtone is also the same for all major mobile manufactuers for reciving SMS’es
Comment by Damian — August 29, 2006 #
“the digit 4 never appears in any handset MODEL NUMBER ”
In fact it does. e.g., 5140
Comment by joe18 — August 29, 2006 #
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Pingback by 12 interesting facts about Nokia you may not know… » Circuitous Distractions — September 19, 2006 #
i didnt actually read it…im lookin 4 GEOGRAPHY homework. this really didnt help.
Comment by Suraya — September 24, 2006 #
Can anyone recommend me?
I need an free sms service for my homepage.
I am seeking one with the option to change the design(for a bit).
Thanks a million!
Comment by Russell — December 19, 2006 #
Wow! Great fact - I had no idea that that beep beep beep, beep beep, beep beep beep was SMS in morse code, makes sense really. Great fact indeed!
Comment by Quz Questions — March 30, 2007 #
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