GLOBAL – Think about innovation and the first thing that pops into most people heads is headline-grabbing, top of the line product. But innovation happens across the board at Nokia, not just at the high end. It doesn’t necessarily need to be a brand new technology, it could just as easily be about taking an existing piece of technology and making it available to a whole new group of people. Mark’s post on Friday sparked a whole load of debate, with a lot commenting on Nokia’s apparent lack of innovation. Really? Well, what about all this then?
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JAKARTA, Indonesia – When you hear about Nokia and services, Ovi is the big thing that springs to mind. Nokia Life Tools though, is also a service, but not one that gets too much attention. Even though it should. Recently we saw the release of a bunch of new entry level devices and alongside their launch in Indonesia, was the introduction of Nokia Life Tools for Indonesia. This follows an already successful launch in India and Africa and forms part of a rollout across select Asian and African countries.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia – It’s almost a year to the day that we first reported on an intriguing new service called Nokia Life Tools. Piloted and then officially debuting in India, Life Tools was designed to help improve the livelihood and lives of farmers, students and many people in more remote and rural areas in emerging market countries. It does this by offering easily accessible and up-to-date crop prices, education tools and entertainment packages, delivering this valuable information on a simple SMS backbone. Hence we’re excited to see Nokia Life Tools announced for Indonesia, where it has been keenly tailored towards its people’s needs.
Read on to find out more, see photos of folk using the service, and as always, share your comments below.
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BOSTON, USA – One of the benefits of knowing the unknowns, the things that are unknown to the public, but known to the company, is that it gets exciting when folks start speculating – about launches, devices, direction, moves. And I like speculating as much as the next guy.
Of course, we don’t substantiate rumors or talk about those known unknowns (that’s usually called a leak). And it’s a hard balance to say enough to show where we are going, without giving the game away. In some cases this can put us in an unfavorable light. For example, it’s sometimes foolish to suggest we released a solution in response to a competitor device or service, when in actuality, solution timelines were long set before the competitor revealed its solution. Or, all of us have to wear a Finnish poker-face, because we can’t really to talk about a leaked product everyone is excited about.
Today, there are some links we’d like to share. In the past week, we’ve had more than enough concrete stuff to be excited about. But here are three articles that are examples of the hopeful speculation we usually like to read. There is also one, to remind us that even when we do reveal something, it might not be so exciting in the end.
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