Nokia, bored of phones, wants to make laptops
FINNISH MOBILE giant, Nokia, would like to jump on the netbook bandwagon, according to the firm's CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo.
In a television interview with Finnish broadcaster YLE, Kallasvuo noted his company was "looking very actively" at plans to make little laptops.
"What we know as a cellphone and what we know as a PC are in many ways converging", said Kallasvuo who added millions of people were losing their Internet virginity for the first time on their mobile phones.
The announcement comes just a week after Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where PC makers including Acer, HP and Lenovo unveiled new smartphone offerings, muscling in on what Nokia sees as its territory.
During his keynote at MWC, Kallasvuo had hinted at the shift by calling Nokia's latest offerings "mobile computers" rather than smartphones. µ
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They have using the 'Mobile computing' slant since the launch of the N series, so its got bugger all to do with any Netbook activity...
Sylvie,
Can I lose my internet virginity for a 2nd time?
Yes, I would expect that from someone who has preformed the "pull another towel from the hanger and drop it trick"
I whatched the show last night and yes, Kallasvuo stated in the end of a sentence that they are looking very actively into laptops/netbooks but the sentence started with a comment that Nokia doesn't even have remote plans to develop netbooks or laptops.
So this should no be hyped up by anyone.
Nokia is trying to emulate Apple & Microsoft. But they are losing in their core market , mobile phones. Soon Sony will have a 12mp Symbian Idou while they do not have a single 8mp phone. Their touchscreen is also substandard to the Iphone while their internet devices have flopped. I have loved Nokia phones till my N95 but feel now they have lost focus and will soon end up like Motorola , great plans very poor execution. Instead they should leverage their symbian smartphone strengths & beat HTC , Samsung & Sony
I once said it is inpossible (and bad for the consumers) if Nokia gets a 40% share of thr mobile phone market.
But they got that share, and I find it understandable if they need to extend their product range.
The Linux N770 and later I think gives a hint in which direction they will go.
They do have a problem with phones as they have, sort of, lost the ability to put "sex" in their phones.
And do not forget that Nokia used to produce computers before they put all the eggs in one bucket.