Jan

6

This is our first blog carnival and there is no better way to start than with a bang at the Carnival of the Mobilist, which is now hosted by Mobile Point View.

For some time now, Nokia has been touting their new content service called Ovi. This word comes from Finnish language and means ”door” in English. As we all know, doors close doorways and therefore do not connect people.

door

Unimaginative word games aside, Nokia still ventures outside their traditional slogan. By providing us with a portal of mobile content, Nokia doesn’t help us to connect with people but with content. How they do it is that they garner copyrighted content and package it into mobile form. Boring.

This is an ancient business logic from old-school movie and television distribution business. Just take a brief look at any TOP10 box-office list and guess if entertainment business is lucrative or not. Yes, you guessed it right, it is an expensive game of marketing.

Now take a look at any hot mobile application, they all include some form of social aspect. People are connected with other people and they are having fun. In best case they are having fun without any bought content, they just rely on conversation. Yes, conversation!

I don’t understand why Nokia is abandoning their well-served mantra of ”connecting people” and welcoming stagnated forms of business like ”providing content”.

Aug

1

Sourcing came first, then it was manufacturing and now it is time for research and design. Nokia is opening its’ first design studio in India.

For the longest time, strategic business development mantra has been that China does manufacturing and India does designing. For the most part it has been true just in case of China, which is a huge manufacturing country. India on the other hand hasn’t really gripped its’ supposed role on world market arena, but is now picking up.

Business tends to shift in cycles. It used to be profitable for companies to move manufacturing to cheap labour cost countries. This wave has passed and now it is a norm on any business field on which physical product is part of the complete service. Now we will see increased investment on R&D diversification around the globe.

All these moves are for the good of brand, because if foreign investments earn money, that money can be used to further develop business and win competition. I bet we will see more dropouts in mobile phones market. Those companies that are not good spreading their functions around the world will fail.

May

21


Interesting news coming from Nokia. Blog enthusiasts will be treated with interactive travelling experience. Peter Schindler will maintain a blog while travelling in China. Peter’s weapon of choice will be Nokia’s new N95, a brilliant multimedia gadget also some other Nseries phones will be used.

This approach will no doubt gather interest all over the blogosphere, although it is still a tad too calculated effort to gain mass following as some kind of special novelty. However, this shows us that travelling is coming more and more shareable activity, which mostly likely will lead into extensive holiday reporting. This bonfire of travel industry need internet connected camera phones to fuel the flame. Good times are coming for multimedia mobile phones.


Feb

7

Fascinating rumors are circulating around net. No, forget the rumors, this is news that we are dealing with here. Official N-Gage blog tells us that more and more publishers are lining up to the ranks of companies, which support coming generation of N-Gage gadgets. This comes quite soon after the announcement of platform discontinuation.

It is also peculiar that Nokia firmly denies that they are preparing new N-Gage platform. Maybe this time the faceless marketing staff at Nokia is able to mull enough street level support and credibility for the platform that it won’t crash land on its face after take-off. Anyway, we are also writing about N-Gage even it is dead, so looks like they are doing a good work on rallying the market enthusiasm, but in this, Apple they are not.

Jan

30

Nokia Research Center has a new interesting application for those who want to follow their wellness. Application is called the Wellness Diary.

When asked about wellness, we tend to focus on our weight, because it is so easy to pinpoint and measure. This free mobile phone application brings total lifestyle management to the terminology of wellness. You can track just about everything you do with it like calendar appointments, sleeping, exercising, eating, weight, blood pressure… etc.

Now you are able to get a grip on your daily and long-term life and analyze your habits to the detail. This is a good tool for people who are trying to make a change in their lifestyle. You can also get a lot more out of relationships with doctors and personal trainers, as they can get detailed information of your health and lifestyle.

Jan

25

Nokia will soon shine like a diamond, only it won’t be diamond but a new material that mimics the shine of diamonds. Nokia has found a way to combine plastic and coal in a manner which produces hard and shiny surface. Say goodbye to those hideous painted plastic cases, which try to pass as steel or some other real material. Expect to see some cool looking mobile phones coming from Nokia, and they will be dirt cheap, because it’s not real thing but fools’ thing, eh… bling.

Jan

25

Nokia shines

January 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment



Nokia did well during the year 2006. They sold more mobile phones with lower prices but with better profit margins. It looks like Nokia’s product slate can hang in the predatory market climate that eats the poor. One trick ponies like Motorola’s RAZR aren’t just cutting it anymore. However it looks like Nokia’s high-end models aren’t doing the trick either as growth in multimedia segment was dissapointing. Secret to the success, good technology, focus on growing markets and crushing cost control.

Jan

23

Nokia comes out

January 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Press is full of rumors and opinions about Nokia’s coming financials. Suddenly the underdog has bounced back to the ring. Nokia’s strengths at the moment include wide mobile phone catalogue, cost efficiency and technological leadership. These are the ingredients for amazing staying power, however they still need that spearheading generation phone that will get people talking. It has been a while since Nokia had one of those babies.

Jan

9

Motorola said that their financials look a lot worse than anybody guestimated. Motorola hasn’t been able to copy the success of their RAZR phone model and competitors like Nokia have turned on the price screw. Motorola is therefore pretty screwed.

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