Rafe reports back from a 'conversational briefing' with Marko Ahtisaari (Head of Design at Nokia) at Nokia's London Design HQ. There's an explanation of Nokia's "smart push", of how Nokia's three tier device strategy fits together, of how Nokia's software and hardware design teams have been brought together to promote a holistic approach and accelerate the pace of innovation, and there are hints of future design directions for both Symbian and MeeGo devices and software.

"Marko said he returned to Nokia because "there is no more exciting space [than mobile]"; he also pointed towards what has become animportant trend for the Nokia in the last few years - the ability to drive social change through technology. This desire, which, in part, springs from the company's Scandanavian DNA, cites Nokia's unmatched scale - 1.1 billion customers in the last two and half years (active device users) - as putting the company in a unique position to help promote and drive social change."

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