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My Interaction with Mr. Anssi Vanjoki (EVP of Nokia) Print E-mail
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Day before yesterday, I attended the CEO forum organized by Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). Whole event was very well organized and most experts from the telecom and mobile field in general were there among the attendees. Mr. Anssi Vanjoki (EVP of Nokia) was the key speaker for the event. He presented Nokia, from where it started, what it is today and where the whole company is heading to. It was a great presentation and I am giving in the following few lines, the summary of what I got out of the whole presentation and interaction with him. Nokia when it started had launched a big mobile phone which people used to keep as a status symbol as every single piece used to cost around Euro 9000. Whereas today, the size is much smaller with better features and comes in merely Euro 20 each. Earlier, the mobile device was used only for calling and recieving. But today Nokia’s business revolves around much more than just voice. In fact voice is just an add-on feature on top of everything else. Today Nokia’s business revolves around internet, navigation, videos, photos, applications, games, music etc. Vision of Nokia and also their promise is - A World Where Everybody can be Connected. Key trends in todays world are: Social Networking - driving new communications behavior. Context - creating next generation web (connecting place, people, time). Context - webNG (sharing - contacts, locations, time, online or mobile status etc.). Point&find - search the world around you - matching real and virtual info to share and transact. Consumers drive Nokia’s thinking. Context is at the heart of Nokia and thus they have launched OVI. People expect complete solutions like synchronization in between mobile, web and desktop. Here OVI comes in. Eg. Maps from the world can be downloaded on ovi on desktop to mobile free of cost. Nokia comes with music, download all that u can consume in an year into OVI and onto your mobile, all free of cost. People will be able to browse the photos in 3D environment inside OVI. OVI is the next major innovation platform where developers and operators are invited to make applications. Qt - environment is yest another innovative platform being developed by Nokia where any application that runs on symbian will also work in any other platform entertaining Qt - environment.


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1. 11-28-2008 18:29
 
Interesting look at where Nokia is headed. It made me want to refresh my memory on what Nokia's Ovi is and when the strategy was launched. From an August 29, 2007 press release here's how Nokia launched Ovi: Nokia today introduced Ovi, the company's new Internet services brand name. With the introduction of Ovi, Nokia is expanding from a focus on mobile devices to offering a range of Internet services. Ovi, meaning 'door' in Finnish, enables consumers to easily access their existing social network, communities and content, as well as acting as a gateway to Nokia services.
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2. 12-03-2008 12:44
 
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