Mike Haydon

I just read an interview with Nokia CTO Bob Iannucci in the June 2008 Harvard Business Review…

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Apparently, Nokia are investing heavily in nanoscience to make things smaller (no surprise there). He sees the future of mobile phones becoming more standardized (FINALLY!), similar to how PCs have gone (your software/hardware for an IBM will work with a HP, etc, so why not between Nokia and Motorola).

He says in response to “Assuming Nokia’s efforts are fruitful, how will people use mobile phones differently in the coming years”:

“Nokia is moving into services and software for mobility. We’re trying to fuse the physical and digital worlds and looking at how wristwatches, sensors in your car, and other types of input devices might interact with your mobile phone so that you can get a whole range of data, from information about hour health, to the status of your automobile, to whether there’s traffic a few miles ahead.

One particularly exciting technology is the use of the phone as a sensor. Rather than use a text query to search the internet, our researchers use an image captured by the phone’s camera to initiate what they call a “zero-click” search. Point the phone at a shoe in a store window, and in a second or two you can read about it on your screen. Or take a picture of a sign in one language and get a translation of it in another. All we’re trying to do is orchestrate a revolution in the mobile phone industry.”

Now how cool does that sound? I gotta get me one of those!

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