Nokia just revealed it won't let phone networks apply any proprietary customization to its hot little Mid/smartphone the N900. It's another sign that in the future your cell-phone network will be way less important than it thinks it is.
Speaking to Reuters, Nokia's VP for Devices R&D David Rivas explained that Nokia would change its policy versus the way it behaved with Symbian phones, to a new way of thinking with the Maemo-powered N900. Nokia, along with numerous other cell-phone manufacturers, often lets cell-phone networks across the globe apply customization to its phones--including external styling details, and custom UIs that even disable particular capabilities of the phone. But when Apple burst onto the scene with the iPhone, it was a radical departure from that model: In the U.S. there's no At&T decal on the phone, and it runs the same Ui as iPhones sold everywhere else on the planet.
Speaking to Reuters, Nokia's VP for Devices R&D David Rivas explained that Nokia would change its policy versus the way it behaved with Symbian phones, to a new way of thinking with the Maemo-powered N900. Nokia, along with numerous other cell-phone manufacturers, often lets cell-phone networks across the globe apply customization to its phones--including external styling details, and custom UIs that even disable particular capabilities of the phone. But when Apple burst onto the scene with the iPhone, it was a radical departure from that model: In the U.S. there's no At&T decal on the phone, and it runs the same Ui as iPhones sold everywhere else on the planet.
- 9/10/2009
- by Kit Eaton
- Fast Company
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