I'm just guessing here, but I have a theory.

In large parts of the world, when they introduced the mobile phone for the first time they had to think of a suitable word for it in the local language.

The word they came up with was the word that the people sending the goods used "Nokia".

So for most of the world Nokia just means mobile phone in local speak. Hence, when you tell people that the "mobile phone" is not a mobile phone they just look at you blank

Gets even better when you say the "mobile phone" is not a mobile phone but you can make calls with it if...

Zuber