Nokia‘s The Way We Live Next conference has been going down in Espoo this week, with the company’s execs and industry figureheads looking forward to envision the phone – and mobile services – of the future, and in a brief video, the Finnish phone maker’s shown off a video of what it thinks the handsets of 2015 will look like. The answer? Two modular screens, connected by the cloud!
Speaking at the show, Nokia’s senior vice-president of corporate strategy Heikki Norta talked about how future phones will merge more horsepower with awareness of your surroundings, not just delivering you relevant information, but sending it to others too – one example being an Indian fisherman who’s easily able to sell data on his trade to universities across the world through them. Convergence like this is nothing new as an idea, of course, but Nokia also teased the audience with a video of how these future phones will work.
Symbian Oyster card tech incoming!
Twin screened smart-book might be a better way to describe the Nokia concept device, which can also act as a computer, satnav and media centre and connect to a TV, and splits in to a smaller handset that’s more convenient to carry around if you’re doing sport, say. And because of faster bandwidth than the 3G connections we have now, you won’t lose any services or locally stored media, as it’s all backed up in the cloud and syncs between the two.
Of course, the day when this works fluidly is still some time off, but it’s good to see Nokia putting a date on it and keeping things real, where all Motorola can do is dream of shape shifting phones. You’ve got five years, guys, get to it.
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