Nokia renews mission for mobile and location ba...

Nokia Corporation
Stock exchange release
June 22, 2011 at 09:05 (CET +1)

Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced that Michael Halbherr has been appointed
executive vice president to spearhead Nokia's revised mission in mobile and
location-based services.  Effective July 1, 2011, Michael Halbherr will become a
member of the Nokia Leadership Team, reporting to CEO Stephen Elop.

Halbherr will lead a new Location & Commerce business, which will be formed by
integrating the NAVTEQ business with Nokia's social location services
operations. The Location & Commerce business will develop a new class of
integrated social location products and services for consumers, as well as
platform services and local commerce services for device manufacturers,
application developers, internet services providers, merchants, and advertisers.

While continuing to serve NAVTEQ's existing customers, the Location & Commerce
business will provide exciting new opportunities through the integration of
Nokia community data. In addition to a broad portfolio of products and services
for the wider internet ecosystem, the Location & Commerce business will also
create integrated social location offerings in support of Nokia's strategic goal
in smartphones, including Nokia products with Windows Phones, as well as support
for bringing the internet to the next billion.

"Focusing on location and commerce is a natural next step in Nokia's Services
journey. We will provide next generation social-location applications and
commerce to differentiate Nokia. We also aim to extend our content and services
offerings to all consumers by making them available to partners and customers on
a wide variety of devices and operating systems," said Nokia CEO Stephen Elop.
"Michael is a widely recognized authority in the fields of mobility and social
location services, and I am delighted to appoint him to lead an area of our
business that will be crucial in Nokia's transformation strategy."

Halbherr has been with Nokia since 2006, most recently leading the product unit
in Nokia's Services business, based in Berlin. Prior to joining Nokia in 2006,
he worked for the Boston Consulting Group and at europatweb, the Internet
investment vehicle of Groupe Arnault, overseeing all technology investments. In
2001, Halbherr became CEO of gate5 AG, a leading supplier of mapping, routing
and navigation software and services globally.  In 2006, gate5 was acquired by
Nokia. Halbherr holds a PhD in electrical engineering from ETH Zurich, spending
four years at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.

Tero Ojanpera, who served as the acting head of the Services business, will
continue as executive sponsor of Nokia's Bridge program designed to promote
innovation and entrepreneurship with employees affected by Nokia's workforce
alignment initiatives announced on April 27, 2011.  Under his leadership, the
program will invest to facilitate partnership with affected employees, local
communities, and a variety of partners to support start-ups and create new
business opportunities. Tero Ojanpera will continue as a member of the Nokia
Leadership Team.

Larry Kaplan, who has served as CEO for NAVTEQ, will continue to support the
transition work for the new Location & Commerce business through year-end.

About Nokia
Nokia is committed to connecting people to what matters to them by combining
advanced mobile technology with personalized services. More than 1.3 billion
people connect to one another with a Nokia, from our most affordable voice-
optimized mobile phones to advanced Internet-connected smartphones sold in
virtually every market in the world. Through Ovi (www.ovi.com), people also
enjoy access to maps and navigation on mobile, a rapidly expanding applications
store, a growing catalog of digital music, free email and more. Nokia's NAVTEQ
is a leader in comprehensive digital mapping and navigation services, and Nokia
Siemens Networks is one of the leading providers of telecommunications
infrastructure hardware, software and professional services globally.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
It should be noted that certain statements herein which are not historical facts
are forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, those regarding:
A) the expected plans and benefits of our strategic partnership with Microsoft
to combine complementary assets and expertise to form a global mobile ecosystem
and to adopt Windows Phone as our primary smartphone platform; B) the timing and
expected benefits of our new strategy, including expected operational and
financial benefits and targets as well as changes in leadership and operational
structure; C) the timing of the deliveries of our products and services; D) our
ability to innovate, develop, execute and commercialize new technologies,
products and services; E) expectations regarding market developments and
structural changes; F) expectations and targets regarding our industry volumes,
market share, prices, net sales and margins of products and services; G)
expectations and targets regarding our operational priorities and results of
operations; H) expectations and targets regarding collaboration and partnering
arrangements; I) the outcome of pending and threatened litigation; J)
expectations regarding the successful completion of acquisitions or
restructurings on a timely basis and our ability to achieve the financial and
operational targets set in connection with any such acquisition or
restructuring; and K) statements preceded by "believe," "expect," "anticipate,"
"foresee," "target," "estimate," "designed," "plans," "will" or similar
expressions. These statements are based on management's best assumptions and
beliefs in light of the information currently available to it. Because they
involve risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from the
results that we currently expect. Factors that could cause these differences
include, but are not limited to: 1) our ability to succeed in creating a
competitive smartphone platform for high-quality differentiated winning
smartphones or in creating new sources of revenue through our partnership with
Microsoft; 2) the expected timing of the planned transition to Windows Phone as
our primary smartphone platform and the introduction of mobile products based on
that platform; 3) our ability to maintain the viability of our current Symbian
smartphone platform during the transition to Windows Phone as our primary
smartphone platform; 4) our ability to realize a return on our investment in
MeeGo and next generation devices, platforms and user experiences; 5) our
ability to build a competitive and profitable global ecosystem of sufficient
scale, attractiveness and value to all participants and to bring winning
smartphones to the market in a timely manner; 6) our ability to produce mobile
phones in a timely and cost efficient manner with differentiated hardware,
localized services and applications; 7) our ability to increase our speed of
innovation, product development and execution to bring new competitive
smartphones and mobile phones to the market in a timely manner; 8) our ability
to retain, motivate, develop and recruit appropriately skilled employees; 9) our
ability to implement our strategies, particularly our new mobile product
strategy; 10) the intensity of competition in the various markets where we do
business and our ability to maintain or improve our market position or respond
successfully to changes in the competitive environment; 11) our ability to
maintain and leverage our traditional strengths in the mobile product market if
we are unable to retain the loyalty of our mobile operator and distributor
customers and consumers as a result of the implementation of our new strategy or
other factors; 12) our success in collaboration and partnering arrangements with
third parties, including Microsoft; 13) the success, financial condition and
performance of our suppliers, collaboration partners and customers; 14) our
ability to source sufficient quantities of fully functional quality components,
subassemblies and software on a timely basis without interruption and on
favorable terms, including the disruption of production and/or deliveries from
any of our suppliers as a result of adverse conditions in the geographic areas
where they are located; 15) our ability to manage efficiently our manufacturing,
service creation, delivery and logistics without interruption; 16) our ability
to ensure the timely delivery of sufficient volumes of products that meet our
and our customers' and consumers' requirements and manage our inventory and
timely adapt our supply to meet changing demands for our products; 17) any
actual or even alleged defects or other quality, safety and security issues in
our products; 18) any actual or alleged loss, improper disclosure or leakage of
any personal or consumer data collected or made available to us or stored in or
through our products; 19) our ability to successfully manage costs, including
our ability to achieve targeted costs reductions and to effectively and timely
execute related restructuring measures, including personnel reductions; 20) our
ability to effectively and smoothly implement the new operational structure for
our devices and services business effective April 1, 2011; 21) the development
of the mobile and fixed communications industry and general economic conditions
globally and regionally; 22) exchange rate fluctuations, including, in
particular, fluctuations between the euro, which is our reporting currency, and
the US dollar, the Japanese yen and the Chinese yuan, as well as certain other
currencies; 23) our ability to protect the technologies, which we or others
develop or that we license, from claims that we have infringed third parties'
intellectual property rights, as well as our unrestricted use on commercially
acceptable terms of certain technologies in our products and services; 24) our
ability to protect numerous Nokia, NAVTEQ and Nokia Siemens Networks patented,
standardized or proprietary technologies from third-party infringement or
actions to invalidate the intellectual property rights of these technologies;
25) the impact of changes in government policies, trade policies, laws or
regulations and economic or political turmoil in countries where our assets are
located and we do business; 26) any disruption to information technology systems
and networks that our operations rely on; 27) unfavorable outcome of
litigations; 28) allegations of possible health risks from electromagnetic
fields generated by base stations and mobile products and lawsuits related to
them, regardless of merit; 29) our ability to achieve targeted costs reductions
and increase profitability in Nokia Siemens Networks and to effectively and
timely execute related restructuring measures; 30) Nokia Siemens Networks'
ability to maintain or improve its market position or respond successfully to
changes in the competitive environment; 31) Nokia Siemens Networks' liquidity
and its ability to meet its working capital requirements; 32) whether Nokia
Siemens Networks is able to successfully integrate the acquired assets of
Motorola Solutions 's networks business, retain existing customers of the
acquired business, cross-sell Nokia Siemens Networks' products and services to
customers of the acquired business and otherwise realize the expected synergies
and benefits of the acquisition; 33) Nokia Siemens Networks' ability to timely
introduce new products, services, upgrades and technologies; 34) Nokia Siemens
Networks' success in the telecommunications infrastructure services market and
Nokia Siemens Networks' ability to effectively and profitably adapt its business
and operations in a timely manner to the increasingly diverse service needs of
its customers; 35) developments under large, multi-year contracts or in relation
to major customers in the networks infrastructure and related services business;
36) the management of our customer financing exposure, particularly in the
networks infrastructure and related services business; 37) whether ongoing or
any additional governmental investigations into alleged violations of law by
some former employees of Siemens AG may involve and affect the carrier-related
assets and employees transferred by Siemens AG to Nokia Siemens Networks; 38)
any impairment of Nokia Siemens Networks customer relationships resulting from
ongoing or any additional governmental investigations involving the Siemens
carrier-related operations transferred to Nokia Siemens Networks; as well as the
risk factors specified on pages 12-39 of Nokia's annual report Form 20-F for the
year ended December 31, 2010 under Item 3D. "Risk Factors." Other unknown or
unpredictable factors or underlying assumptions subsequently proving to be
incorrect could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the
forward-looking statements. Nokia does not undertake any obligation to publicly
update or revise forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise, except to the extent legally required.

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