AAS Podcast #78: Ewan Spence interviews Mikko Rontynen (S60 Summit 2008)

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Ewan sits down at the S60 Summit to talk to Mikko Rontynen, from Nokia's new Customer Spearhead Project to talk about S60.

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Duration: 00:18:44

Show Notes

In our final report from the recent S60 Summit at Barcelona, Ewan Spence chats with Mikko Rontynen on the wide range of issues in the world of S60. In the podcast, Ewan and Mikko talk about:

  • Nokia's new Customer Spearhead Project.
  • The Conversational nature of the S60 Summit.
  • Why Nokia are proud that Samsung took the lead in terms of press announcements.
  • The commitment to being 'open' from Nokia, and is this reflected in the attitudes from Samsung and LG?
    • Open is not just open source.
  • The common platform...
    • The web browser and widgets.
    • Enabling innovation.
    • Addressing different kinds of needs and other programming langauges
  • The most surprising thing that Mikko has seen (MobiToss).
  • What if Mikko wasn't working at Nokia just now?
  • What is the mobile landscape going to be like in ten years time?
  • ...and what's going to be in the next series of S60 device?

 

 

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