Ideas & Opinions
“N97 – Basically a pocket-sized laptop”
By the Team on 12 January 2009
LONDON, England – That was OPK’s description of the N97 when he was interviewed by the TimesOnline’s Lilly Peel, which was published today. The interview appeared in the Business section’s Movers & Shakers column, with the punchy title “Far from Silicon Valley comes challenge to Google and Microsoft”. It’s a nice piece, focussing a lot on Nokia’s move to being more like an Internet business. But it does reveal a few titbits about OPK which were news to me, and perhaps, news to you.
When OPK was brought into Nokia originally, he was part of the team which transformed the company from a primarily rubber-based business to a technology business. I was aware that OPK was around then, but perhaps not aware that he was so instrumental to the move.
Tackling the change today then, where Nokia moves emphasis to services and software, away from hardware, there’s probably nobody better placed to lead and drive that move.
The article does question the sense of the move in the current economic climate – questioning whether people will be willing to pay for additional services, and whether the services section of the business will be delivering the $2 billion of revenue by 2011. I’m not placed to answer that, but it is an interesting question I think. In the grand scheme of Nokia’s annual revenues it isn’t a huge amount, but even so it’s nothing if it’s not ambitious.
And it needs to be. If services are to take off and develop in the way they deserve to to, then the targets and ambitions need to be set high. I reckon it helps to focus the mind somewhat. What do you think?
Read the full interview on TimesOnline
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Tags | Navteq, Nokia, opk, TimesOnline
January 12th, 2009 at 4:07 am
lovin’ the content, happy new year! i am not lovin’ the “The Team” byline, could we please return to individuals authoring posts instead of “The Team”?
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January 12th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Although its a semantic thing, to refer to the N97 as a laptop, but say that there’s more to mobility such as contextual interfaces speaks out of both ends. It cannot be both in their respective semantic definitions, and at the same time, starting from the framework that the N97 is a laptop might do it more disservice than help it.
That being said, it would be nice to see how the N97 and future Nokia devices respond to all of this computing power being in the pocket, that is, adjusting themselves to users rather than in UI and UX expecting people to just figure it out.
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January 14th, 2009 at 9:42 am
Actually I find Nokia is in a great position to weather the storm. The N97 and many other S60 devices offer access to Web2.0 not just as a concept but a working solution to end users.
N97 “N97 – Basically a pocket-sized laptop” is closer to fact and consideration that RIM’s Lazaridis claiming the Storm “Is a netbook” lol. N97 allows the user and with MobileWeb Server others to access the storage, traverse many networks without an APN price plan restriction, and true global network coverage & protocol support which the BB does not; not without a corporate infrastucture which is becoming more of an expensive Financial expenditure ($$ = BES) for business.
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May 6th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Hello Nokia,
You have the hard and software to make your top of the range communicators global travellers, but what mobile workers like myself would run to your doors for is some sort of:
1. CRM softeware
2. External Monitor (and keyboard) connector (we all know about the bluetooth keyboard) or adapter.
3. Re-introduction of native fax (see 9500 communicator) and
4 if you can, WiFi video messaging (see e71 two camera’s).
With the above arsenal mobile workers and professionals /consumers will have a single fully connected device they can rely on wherever they are……………..you’ll have the consumer and business market sewn-up.
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