Category: Nokia
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Choosing Mobile Development Platform
There’s been a lot of heated discussions in the blogosphere in the past month about mobile platforms from independent developer perspective. Which platform to choose, if you want to develop cool applications, reach a lot of users and maximize your revenues? I previously wrote on this subject a year ago, when Android was announced, and…
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Leaving Nokia
As some of you may know, I have decided to leave Nokia and go back into the start-up world. My last day is only in the end of May, but the decision was made long time ago, and information seems to travel too fast, so I decided to publicly announce it already now. I am…
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Google Android vs. Nokia Series 60 – what would it take to build a better mobile phone?
The long awaited Google phone turned out to be just an OS. What does it mean for us, mobile software developers? Personally, I think this is great news. An open mobile platform is something that was long due to stir up the world of RIM-Windows-Symbian. Android managed to get many things right from the very…
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Nokia – new Google, new Apple or just new Nokia?
Nokia’s brand is one of the most valueable brands in the world (MillwardBrown rates it as 12th). Nokia is quite close to becoming a synonym of a mobile phone. Whenever I tell someone that I work for Nokia, reaction is almost always the same – “oh, so you make phones”. It is very difficult to…
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Nokia Beta Labs – Tommi Vilkamo
Conratulations Tommi, congratulations Nokia! It is really a lucky break for Nokia that someone with such a great track record of blogging and openly talking to community of Nokia users will head Beta Labs. As Stephen Johnston said “Plenty of improvement ideas are in the pipeline, and the key one for me will be to…
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I moved to Linux completely
That finally happened. I’ve completely got rid of Windows on my computers. The last bastion of Windows was my Nokia work laptop, and now there is Nokia corporate version of Linux installed. I would’ve preferred Ubuntu, but that was not an option. Migration was relatively painless and that’s yet another proof that Linux can be…