Sunday, October 07, 2007

The Fourth Screen

Another Nokia video, this time about the internet...

I actually think that this video nicely points out how Nokia is eventually starting to grasp where we're at right now and starting to show a possibly interesting value proposition for the users -- a way to keep connected regardless of time and place. If WiFi cut us loose from our desks but forced us to carry along tons of equipment, then more intelligent smartphones with nifty, cheap connectivity via 3G/3.5G/4G/WiMAX/LTE/whatever will cut us loose from the ton of hardware.

Nokia is always getting laughed at for being the naive and slightly slow guys from Finland who always mess things up. And I'll be one of the first people to point out all of the stupid things we've done. But I think it's fair to say that right now we're doing some interesting things (enterprise stuff like Intellisync, then some consumer stuff like Gate5, Loudeye and now Navteq, experimenting with Open Source with the Maemo platform and the internet tablets, and so on).

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I really like that video! The only thing is though, you arent going to fragging newbs on your nokia!! :)

But i do like the idea of the "screens"