Nokia Internet tablet: a community cellphone
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Ari Virtanen, Nokia VP for convergence products, admits that the Nokia open source Internet tablet is an UFO. “The biggest thing is that we don’t want to be part of the cellular value chain,” he said to CNet. “We want to be a little bit out of that world. Once you put a SIM card in, it’s automatically controlled by the operator.”
Nokia has one of the brightest move to disrupt the mobile phone market: Starting from scratch and wait. Make the Nokia 770 become a lab prototype.
Translation: Nokia has taken down any cellular connectivity ― which makes the mobile device look closer to a ultra-light laptop than a cellphone, invite every developer to play with its own open source toolkit, and monitor any project that can enhance its capabilities.
For instance, at the last VON Europe conference, Mr. Virtanen told Nokia expects Web access to “go mobile,” much as telephones have. Results: Google Talk has landed on the phone. And an upcoming version of Gizmo is due to appear.
And Virtanen confirmed it. That extra functionality will be added to the devices by studying how people behave with fixed Internet and then adding a mobile dimension, giving a chance to WiMax to be supported by the phone. This looks very like the Nokia 770 is one of the first, if not the first, Web 2.0 mobile phone or user-driven phone or community Internet phone or whatever, at least a user-centered mobile phone.
Jun 23, 2006 | By Nuno
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