Elop: – Front cams for next Lumia and more (nfc, dualcore?). MeeGo in lab, stay tuned for what comes out.

Front page of this week’s Engadget magazine is Stephen Elop. You can download it in various formats. On the PDF, it’s pages 44-57.

Here’s the PDF.Distro Issue 13 PDF

• early in 2012 you should see some very exciting Lumia products from us. (lol, I hope not ‘early 2011’ which meant August)
• Lumia - It’s about the promise of the Nokia brand and what it stands for.
• US – working with MULTIPLE operators
• Differentiate Lumia experience in hardware, software and services
•  Highest priority to compete with Android and Apple
• Fragmentation not just a buzz word. A real concern in any operating environment.
• Thinks skinning might be confusing for the developer and consumer (it’s funny when I see mates with different Androids and they’re like, but mine can’t do that. Mine doesn’t do this on the homescreen :S) On WP, there’s minimal relearning.
• As a result of the structural changes, you are seeing results. More than people expected, already in the early stages of the implementation of this strategy
• Not surprised by the response to N9. Reiterates what’s been said many times – elements of N9, the design, the user experience, swipe (lol not the Swype experience as in text) as well as the Qt environment. Those will live on in future Nokia products.
• Beauty of N9 and put windows phone in it. That’s exactly what we did.
• We’ve also given some clues about the Qt development platform.
• Stay tuned, it’s going to be very interesting.
• The idea of having devices for connoissuers, high end devices and speciality devices is something you will see from Nokia, there will be examples of that.
• What we’ve said about the underlying MeeGo environment is that it’s moving into the lab. Who knows what comes out of the lab. Stay tuned for that, but nonetheless, you’ll see some interesting speciality things over the years ahead.
• Not about being the Nokia that tries every OS, first whilst in this challenging period is focus on WP (and as that goes well, more focus in the labs!)

• Why no FFC? Decisions needed to be made for the FIRST markets Nokia was entering. What elements were most important balanced against the price points (and Nokia wanted volume, remember?), knowing that future devices and capabilities were coming (there, for certain next Lumia will have a front facing camera. As we’ve said before, the core experience of Lumia now is just right for the market it’s entering)
• On things WP doesn’t currently support – e.g. NFC, or dual core. Tim asks is that frustrating? Elop says NO as they have a good visibility into and influence on future of WP.
• Elop knows what’s coming, what’s ahead and know different timiongs for different markets. At end of the day though, what Nokia needs is to land well is the quality of the overall experience.
• Speaking dual-core/single core – in terms of experience in Lumia 800 against those devices with “more power” I’ll put our experience against any other experience ALL DAY LONG.  (Damn right. Symbian fans have said it time and time again, and now it’s really true with WP too that it doesn’t need super high end hardware. It would be nice to brag about and add some inches to your ego but the old gen are already fast…and the Lumia is even faster. Remember in several reviews this was highlighted, e.g. Jon Rettinger of TechnoBuffalo made this exact point). User experience is king. Not list of features, what it can or can’t do, but how you do everything.

Source: Engadget

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