Design, Products & Services

Interview with Valtteri Eroma, head of design for Nokia Eseries

By Charlie on 19 February 2009

BARCELONA, Spain – Both the Nokia E75 and the E55 come with new or updated form-factors and materials. Valtteri Eroma is a driving force in making such design decisions as he heads the design team for all Eseries products.

I asked him to tell us about Eseries design, Nokia’s innovations in phone keyboards, and some special aspects of the E55.

To hear what he said, check out the video below.

Nokia has had QWERTY keyboards for some time now, starting with the Communicator back in the 90s. A few years back, the Nokia 9300 Communicator set the standard of usability in phone keyboards.

With the Nokia E75 and E55, Valtteri and his team pushed the design even further, working hard to innovate with both the format and the materials used in the devices.

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anil k gupta Says:
March 29th, 2009 at 4:30 pm

Dear Eroma

real innovations will come about when nokia decides to provide the building blocks of cell technology to millions of users in India who will innovate and design, fabricate and deploy variety of innovations at grassroots level,

let me quote my own paper for a talk at Chicago on April 3-4 and MIT on April 5-6:

“”Cell phones were introduced around a decade and half ago and they became mass consumption good in the last decade. Not only people developed a language of missed calls but also developed lot of other applications. Young innovator Prem Singh developed a remote switch by which farmers could switch on and off their pumpsets, power lines could be tripped or monitored for load, one could get a message whether the milk has boiled or not sitting in a separate room, lock car if stolen, amplify heart beat and communicate it to the doctor. It is a pity that not many of his ideas could go to the market and become a mass consumption product. But just the range of applications should indicate the way Indian and trained mind can create numerous possibilities. Many other innovators developed security system so that an image as well as the message would be sent to pre defined addresses in case an unauthorised person tries to tamper with the lock or open the door. Cell phones can also be used to intimate the water status in the field so that farmers can track the need for irrigation. All these innovations have been evolved by the people who have not even gone to the college much less get any technical training. Companies like Nokia never shared the technique of extracting emergency power in a battery which had run down and could not power the cell phone. The young boys in the villages figured out ways of getting that reserve energy from the battery to make sos call or sms. Anurag Rathod, a class nine student thought of converting the gait of a person into a mobile password system. The moment phone is used by an unauthorized person, it would stop working till the original user unlocks it. This is an original thought with an amazing potential. Every such idea deserves a fair trial and opportunity for value addition and benefit sharing””.
“Grassroots innovations for poverty alleviation: An entrepreneurial approach : anil gupta, iimahd
anilg@iimahd.ernet.in

would welcome comments from all those who wish to join hands with honey bee network

anil