When Nokia talks about the future it's generally a good idea to pay attention. After all, even with
diminishing market share, a split
Maemo and
Symbian smartphone strategy, and
less than stellar financials, the company remains the world's leading supplier of handsets with a proven ability to innovate. So take notice when Nokia's head of corporate strategy, Heikki Norta, describes what life will be like in 2015 in a video littered with high-tech devices driven by finger-based UIs. Of course, five years is generally only enough time for the nascent technologies we see today to mature enough for mass market acceptance -- in other words, readers of
Engadget won't find anything mind-blowing in a presentation laced with liberal doses of
augmented reality, pervasive
connectivity,
dual-display clamshells, and as always:
micro projectors and
laser keyboards. Beyond hardware and software, Nokia sees itself at the heart of a global network aggregating data from hundreds of millions of intelligent devices for an unprecedented level of knowledge sharing that enables services such as highly
localized traffic reports and
weather trends. Fun stuff and certainly worth a few minutes to ponder on your own. Still, it's difficult to get too excited by the vision from a company that was not only
totally caught off guard by consumer trends at the margin-rich (read: money making) end of its devices portfolio, but also
so slow to respond in any meaningful way.
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posted Nov 11th 2009 7:15AM
Nokia: Connecting People ...'s Data
ya, sure, theyre really going to do all that but I cant get a freakin FOTA update on my NAM 5800
give me a break
I like this one and you can see it also here: http://www.nextgenmobileshop.co.uk/phones-Nokia-N95
I find it funny they think Ovi will still be around in 2015. that's like a vid in 2005 saying Ngage will still be here in 2010...oh wait.... lol
Guys, seriously. WTF, can´t you write one article without going all out against Nokia? Can´t you be impartial once?
^^^ No they can't, cause they are being paid not to.
lol
Very European, nice touch with Maria having the Barcelona lisp, added street cred.
People are not always fully aware of their strengths and weaknesses. For example, a friend of mine believes he is God's gift to women but instead his primary strength is being a Level 45 Chaotic Nerd in some kind of Evercrack game.
Nokia as a company would really like to become a software and services company for some reason. I guess someone said that software makes people rich or something, so now you have a bunch of people who know absolutely nothing about good software and/or services embarrassing themselves like my friend with his +5 Vorpal Sword. Clueless to the point of not getting that they are clueless.
Let me illustrate - Ovi, for example. When first announced, it didn't work on my E71. Fine, I waited. Then when I tried again I had to go thru some long and painful registration process, which was OK until I hosed the phone mucking around with APNs and had to do a factory reset. OK, back to Ovi. Ooops, you need an Ovi account even to download stupid free stuff like Opera Mini (actually a damn fine browser for the E71, much as it is pretty good even on a RAZR, oddly it seems to suck on WinMo and Android, but life is funny that way sometimes). Turns out that it was faster and easier for me to google Opera and find their download page than it was to use Ovi. Bummer.
Then the whole maps thing. OK, many who are serious about services would put all that crap on the cloud. Instead, how about you mix metaphores and make it such that you need to install a big fat application on your pc and then you have to download area maps and then you have to sideload all this crap onto a phone, oh, shit, where is my cable? Ooops, the desktop thing wants to update itself and oh look it wants to update the client on my phone too....
The N97, although a wonderful piece of hardware, really and truly was a bit of a short bus effort and the short bus aspect of that phone was all software. Seemed like they shipped a beta or something. Wonderful build, great feel, crap phone. Oops.
So, we have these folks who suck so badly that they don't realize they suck. Trust me, you see this kind of thing everywhere, not just in technology. You can see it among sportbike riders up in the Santa Cruz mountains, you can see it in the gym, you can see it at the shooting range. Usually you don't see it at companies with such a long and distinguished history as Nokia, but sometimes you do.
Don't get me wrong, I still like Nokia and wish them the best. My first mobile was a Nokia with a black and white screen and it was built like a tank, one of the best made pieces of consumer electronics I had held, but they have seriously lost it and are going off on a messed up tangent and need to get back to basics and focus first on building good phones again then worry about all this other bullshit. They would kick so much ass with Android but I guess that most in Espoo would rather burn their faces off with a blowtorch than put Android on a Nokia. That sting is pride messing with you.
I can´t understand such a hostility against Nokia... It remains the biggest mobile phone manufacture in the world and the most innovative with such a wide portfolio. Great and free services. Good phones! I suggest you to take a look to the N900, X6 and the N97 v2.0... They´re superb phones with very good hardware and very complete software. Apple or others won´t be able to compete in the future... In every big company there are tough and more nagative moments. You just have to understand how enormous and how wide "know how" they have in many services. Even the new Nokia 3G netbook is superb... Be fair please!
I´m starting to find quite childish and amateur this articles published at Engadget website.