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Nokia promises to improve the user experience for their phones in 2010
During a recent Nokia press release, the Nordic telecommunication giant promises to deliver handsets that will have significant user experience improvement.
In the press release, Nokia outlines:
- Improve our user experience;
- Re-engineer our Symbian user interface; deliver a major product milestone before mid-year 2010, and another major product milestone before the end of 2010;
- Deliver our first Maemo 6-powered mobile computer, with an iconic user experience, in the second half of 2010;
- Significantly increase the proportion of touch and/or QWERTY devices in our smartphone portfolio;
- Scale up our Services business by expanding geographically and in partnership with more operators;
- Provide third party developers with better tools to create applications and content for our Ovi ecosystem;
- Further optimize the industry’s lowest cost end-to-end business model in Mobile Phones; and
- Continue to build on our affordable and localized services offerings for emerging market consumers.
Engadget has a video of the webcast from Nokia and it shows some of the screens from the future Symbian and Maemo devices from Nokia. In the video, Nokia says the problem is the UI, not the OS (Symbian). Take a look after the break.
Nokia’s press release is here.
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