By Natasha Lomas, 19 February 2008 10:00
Nokia president and CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, rocked up to the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona with a warning about global warming.
The current model of development is not sustainable and something has to change, he told the Congress audience during his keynote. "We all have to make decisive moves towards a more sustainable development," he said.
And to prove it is not all talk, Kallasvuo unveiled a special prototype Nokia gadget...
Photo credit: Natasha Lomas
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1. Dr John Dimmock
Half the problem is that the mobile phone companies need “churn” to survive, a bit like Microsoft
I have a Nokia 6310I one of the best mobile phones in respect to reliability and capability and it is now over 12 years old
True, I have made a point of saving a few of these from the dump to use for spares but so far as I am concerned the 6310I is going to be my mobile until I am unable to support it
The question for both Microsoft and companies like Nokia is that once everybody has a workable and relatively reliable tool, there is no need to replace same, look at what’s happening with Vista in the corporate environment, XP-P00 has been give a further 10 years of support and the only reason for this must be that the operating system does the job