"The N9 is back!" I exclaimed, when Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop asked some of us bloggers what our first thoughts of the Nokia Asha 501 were. "Doesn't it feel good?" he said, and we all nodded in unison. Five minutes before that moment, it was a private room full of bloggers, eager to ask questions to the Chief of a company that just made the world know its effort to re-invent the affordable smartphone. What follows below is a summary of our discussion with Stephen Elop and what we learned from it.
The Asha 501 is, in many ways a tribute to the amazing user interface of the N9 and the people behind it. Peter Skillman, who was one of the key hires in the Meego-Harmattan period is the VP of Mobile Phone user experience at Nokia now, and he passionately spearheaded the Asha 501 product development. According to Stephen, Peter was the one who said a lot of "No"s to the engineering team to get the performance right up to the level that is. The level of passion Peter displayed at his Keynote presentation was indicative of his role in the Asha 501, like Stephen mentioned in our discussion. It ...
"The N9 is back!" I exclaimed, when Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop asked some of us bloggers what our first thoughts of the Nokia Asha 501 were. "Doesn't it feel good?" he said, and we all nodded in unison. Five minutes before that moment, it was a private room full of bloggers, eager to ask questions to the Chief of a company that just made the world know its effort to re-invent the affordable smartphone. What follows below is a summary of our discussion with Stephen Elop and what we learned from it.
The Asha 501 is, in many ways a tribute to the amazing user interface of the N9 and the people behind it. Peter Skillman, who was one of the key hires in the Meego-Harmattan period is the VP of Mobile Phone user experience at Nokia now, and he passionately spearheaded the Asha 501 product development. According to Stephen, Peter was the one who said a lot of "No"s to the engineering team to get the performance right up to the level that is. The level of passion Peter displayed at his Keynote presentation was indicative of his role in the Asha 501, like Stephen mentioned in our discussion. It ...