Products & Services

My three favourite Nokia devices. Ever. part 2

By Phil on 12 November 2009

GLOBAL – I’ve had too many Nokia devices to even count…one of the perks from working at Nokia for seven years.  It seems that every new device in my hands instantly becomes “the best ever!” – until three months later when I receive a new device and the “old” one is relegated to a drawer somewhere.  So naturally, choosing my favourite Nokias ever took some serious thinking and internal debating, but three definitely stand out in my mind…

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Future Technologies

Your Nokia in 2015 – video

By JBC on 11 November 2009

GLOBAL – Get a picture of what life will be like five years from now with this look into the future video. Based on Nokia’s research and development, the video paints a picture of life in 2015. We mentioned in our earlier post some of the things you might expect to see when we expect the processing power of mobile devices to increase dramatically and always on super-fast internet access to make creating and sharing so much quicker and easier. Video after the jump.
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Products & Services

Emerging markets devices – poll results

By JBC on 11 November 2009

GLOBAL – Last week five new handsets for emerging markets launched, packed with genuinely useful and practical features. Starting with the €20 Nokia 1280, these low-cost devices have been designed around the needs and realities of developing communities in rural areas, where advanced smartphone features like Wi-Fi are all but irrelevant. But we wanted to see what you thought, so we asked you to single out what you think is the most important feature an ultra-affordable phone needs to have.
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Future Technologies, Ideas & Opinions

The opportunities for the future

By JBC on 11 November 2009

ESPOO, Finland – Trend research plays a key role in understanding what’s going to happen in the future. Creating an understanding of how people’s needs are changing and evolving helps create a clearer idea of where the opportunity for next generation products and services. Oskar Korkman is head of opportunity identification in consumer insights at Nokia and today he shared some of his thoughts for how we’re going to evolve. For Oskar, it’s all about relationships, with everything from strangers to plants firmly in his sights.
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Future Technologies, Ideas & Opinions

Nokia – life in 2015

By JBC on 11 November 2009

ESPOO, Finland – Smart ecosystems sits at the centre of our mobile life five years from now. That’s what Nokia’s head of corporate strategy Heikki Norta outlined this morning when he talked about what life will be like in 2015. During a short video, we saw how a combination of devices and services worked together to de-clutter life. This comes from a background that’s seeing the relationship between consumers and brands evolve from a monologue right now through a conversation and into a continuos relationship. The idea is simply to help users manage their lives better and enable them to create, share and get the most out of life.
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Future Technologies

Nokia and open innovation

By JBC on 10 November 2009

ESPOO, Finland – Henri Tirri heads up a global team of over 500 researchers at Nokia Research Centre and together they’re responsible for driving long term innovation at Nokia. Over the last three years though, the team have been building a network of labs around the world to create an Open Innovation network. Like the rest of the company, research and the resulting innovations are taking a more open approach, where expertise and specialities outside the company  can be tapped into to speed up progress.
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Nokia N900 and Maemo

By JBC on 10 November 2009

ESPOO, Finland – Maemo might seem like a new branch for Nokia, but it’s easy to forget it’s actually a project the company has been involved in for the last four years. Peter Schneider, head of technology marketing for Maemo devices at Nokia, underlined the point (several times) when he talked us through the latest happenings on Maemo this morning. Much of Peter’s talk was on the open source nature at the core of project and how the community of developers offers rapid and powerful solutions to common problems.
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