Nokia calls for open mobile telephony platform

In his keynote at the Mobile Future conference in Santa Clara, Nokia's chief technology officer Bob Iannucci invited the mobile telephony industry to develop a uniform open platform for mobile devices.

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Iannucci said that an open platform is required because it would give the mobile telephony industry the greatest opportunity to recognise the killer applications of the future. The current agony of having to port applications for dozens of different mobile phones is simply too much and deters developers, he explained. He anticipated that completely new forms of use which nobody can perceive today, and which will probably not be developed by companies in the traditional telephony industry, will emerge in five years' time. However, Iannucci considered a standardisation of hardware platforms similar to that in the PC sector unlikely. Mobile phone vendors don't allow individual companies to dictate standards – no matter how successful the iPhone becomes, he said.

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