Samul Simojoki knew the outcome was a formality, but he still wanted his say, "not so much as a Nokia shareholder, but as a Finn." Mr Simojoki, a lawyer from Helsinki, was one of the 3,200 who attended the company's extraordinary general meeting on November 19th. He voted against the only motion, the proposed sale of Nokia's mobile-phone division to Microsoft for €3.8 billion ($5.4 billion) in cash. More than 99% of votes were cast in favour. When the deal is sealed early in 2014, Nokia, once the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, and still its second-biggest, will be out of the business.
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