Meet Jo Harlow, SVP of Smartphones in Nokia

Jo Harlow. Senior Vice President of Nokia smartphones explains what is the most significant difference in Symbian^3 for Nokia users.

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[giecsar]

@mjlynch712

LOL yeah, the N96 failed to be a decent successor... but Nokia's N900 is truly the best device ever made!

[TravvyG]

I think the Touch and QWERTY form factor is the best

[bongky18]

Will the new nokia WP7 comes with dual-core processor??

[joekkl]

Problems of Nokia: Too many "suits", VP, SVP, Directors...

and not enough Innovators, Engineers and Designers...

If you look at Google/Apple companies, their employees are young, full of energy, exciting.  Look at Nokia, bunch of middle age in their nice suits talking about design they have no idea about. Totally out of touch from reality.

[begunok76]

Вот бы ещё они и на Русском языке начали общаться- как обычно в прочем, игры на пендосском и уругвайскомвыпускают, Россия на стописяттридцатом месте

[syliokas]

It was quite informative. 1. get rid of irritating double tap, more finger friendly usage. 2. 3D games, means maybe 3D accelerators in every new phone?. 3. Augmented reality

[xdeiri]

she looks like a phone her self

[1337ln]

stfu trolls seriously. I found this very informative. Symbian definitely still has a place in the market and can most definitely share the same space as Meego/Maemo.

They both do much different things for much different devices. They both have their strengths and one can't really exist without the other at least right now.

I like my small, pocketable Symbian device to make calls and text message. I'd much rather sofa surf the web or check my Facebook on the toilet with Maemo. Simple as.

[geozec]

Over 8 minutes saying nothing...The 3D thing apart, which I consider to be a bubble, vapo-anouncment.

Why not elaborate on whether or not the N900 will finally get voice guided navigation and when or any other definite info rather than "smartphones will play an important role bla bla".

[speed16bp]

I hope the n900 will be able to update to meego!

[sunny256]

@lemjen20

I never got impressed with the Symbian OS. Had a N95, and the OS was incredible unstable, introducing new bugs at every update, while others were fixed. Enter Maemo and the N900. Linux-based, stable, real multitasking and the possibility to install my favourite Linux applications. I hope Nokia choose to use Maemo in the future (or this MeeGo thing, which I'm skeptical about, I prefer Debian-based distributions). Anyhow, the future is very exciting.