Bottom Of The Pyramid – Nokia’s Second Act
The two-third of world’s 4.6 billon mobile users live in the emerging markets. Millions of these users live below the poverty line and are part of the bottom of the pyramid (BOP). Nokia is the market leader in these emerging markets, at least for now…
What Does a Post iPhone World Look Like
Robert Scoble asked the question “What does a post iPhone world” look like to people from Microsoft, Nokia and Research in Motion. From Robert’s blog it looks like the answer isn’t one that we really want to know about, because none of these companies are thinking that way. A post iPhone world to me means [...]
I’ve Got Productized by Nokia
It’s not every day one sees his family name as headline on TechMeme. Well, if that name is Scoble or Arrington, sure, but for the rest of us it’s a red-letter-day… Well, it just happened to me, courtesy of Nokia, and the shiny new Nokia Erdos luxury phone. Last I checked a few years ago, [...]
Webstock – Matt Jones – The Demon-Haunted World
Matt Jones is a designer who was formerly creative director for the BBC news online. He was with Nokia as the director of UX design and he’s now with Dopplr. Informed by two overwhelming mega-trends in the world – rising urbanisation of the planet and the rapid digitalisation of those cities. It is projected that [...]
What Nokia? Kim Basinger's Lifeline would be an iPhone Today.
The 2004 thriller Cellular features three stars: Kim Basinger, Chris Evans, and a Nokia 6660 video-phone. The kidnapped school-teacher played by Kim Basinger pieces together a broken phone and reaches a random dude, Ryan (Chris Evans) on cell-phone – this call literally becomes her lifeline. Ryan effortlessly uses his Nokia miracle-phone in the middle of [...]
