Following the Nokia launches in video

Quick update on the webcast timing, it's 9am EST, which is
1pm GMT
2pm BST/WEST - London, Dublin, Lisbon etc.
3pm CEST - Paris, Berlin, Madrid etc.
4pm EEST - Helsinki

3pm CEST (Central European Standard Time) is one hr ahead of the UK. So its 2pm in London.

Thanks, all!

Steve

I must apologise for his accent... ;-)

I really don't like the guy. I find him boring and almost aggressive in the way he's talking. I should be exited and eager to hear about what he is talking about but instead i'd like to run away. Will let it play it in the background just to catch the demos but frankly, they should find a real showman for this kind of anouncements (invite Steve Jobs :-)

"I really don't like the guy. I find him boring and almost aggressive in the way he's talking."

Well, he's an executive rather than a presenter. Have you ever heard Bill Gates giving a speech? ;-)

Maybe they should have got someone local to co-present with him.

Crumbs, David Bowie!

Steve Jobs:D That one doesn´t like Nokia, is killing his business!
His a finn, and talk english with a lot of mother language behind... like me, I suppose;)

Yep, which is why they should get a showman to do this kind of anouncement (they must have someone good at that in their marketing department) rather than letting him do that. Have you seen the terrible blanks after each video he's showing? Not a single clap, not a single cheers in the audience, it's morbid, completetly the opposite of what this kind of event should be.

Yes and he is just as bad (although he doesn't give this agressive feeling at least) which is why they generally don't let him do the entire show by himslef.

At the very least yes.

This happens quite a lot at these kinds of trade events, maybe big companies feel that the presence of a bigwig is more important than a slick presenter, sort of a "We're giving you our full attention so you should give us your full attention" or something along those lines. Alternatively maybe executives just like to feel important. :)

Having said all this, these aren't consumer events, only a tiny percentage of the people who actually buy these phones would know anything about these kinds of events, and tech journalists tend to drool over the actual devices rather than their presentations. Maybe it makes no difference in the real world.