Nonverbal communication...

...since 1865: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia#History

Inspired by The Sunday Challenge 'Slogan', I made a day trip to Nokia, a neighbouring town of Tampere. That is where Nokia company and corporation got it's name and origin.

First Nokia Co. made paper, but rather soon rubber coated electric cables became as the main product for decades. Later on Nokia started to manufacture all kinds of things made out of rubber, like tires, rubber boots and yes, even rubber batons like seen in the image! This kind of rubber batons were used by policemen, and bent like seen in the image, they were rather compact tools. On old advertisements, selling these batons, there were slogans used like: "When words does not help, there you need Nokia baton!"

In 1970s Nokia Co. started to engineer and manufacture electronics. During the next decades they made things like radio phones, military communicators, televisions and even computers. In the end of 1980s Nokia Tyres and Nokia Rubber Works split away from Nokia Corporation, which then focused only on communications. At the same time started the golden years of "fully portable mobile phones", and time when the slogan "connecting people" became launched.

People may think Nokia Corporation became fully owned and "killed" by Microsoft. However, it was only the mobile phone division and Nokia phone brand that were sold. The Nokia Corporation continued as Nokia Networks, and it still is a large multinational data networking and telecommunications equipment company.

UPDATE December 18, 2019:

One should not forget also Nokia rubber boots! In Finland there is still a custom to have rubber boot throwing competitions, except we do not throw Wellie but Nokia. And as similar to that there are even Nokia phone throwing competitions arranged.

Moreover, I just discovered that Nokia phones came back "home" (Finland) again!

UPDATE December 20, 2019:

I wonder why there are no following competitions as well:

▪ Throwing at Nokia community with something, or throwing something away from Nokia. Either throwing something at or away from Nokia town hall, or throwing something (like Nokian Footwear) across the border of Nokia from neighboring communities or vice versa.

▪ Throwing Nokia Tyres, aka tires. Like done on this FirePower CrossFit's First Annual Tire Throwing Competition YouTube video.