Mobile phone nostalgia

I just switched on my old Nokia N86. It was one of Nokia’s flagships just about a year ago. 8MP camera, AMOLED screen – it was one of the many N95 successors.
Switching the phone on is, however, like switching on your old DOS computer in times of Vista. Clunky & outdated springs to your mind when using it. It’s a shame really because it’s not a bad phone. But it’s just so many years behind what is possible today. How could it come so far?

I left Nokia in 2007, a company I loved to work for, yet knowing already back then that things were going horribly wrong. Chaos in strategy, lack of leadership, and arrogance all around. ‘ Because we are Nokia’ was an often used phrase in internal meeting, still seeing oneself in a position to dictate the market while the trends were already going in another direction.

I really hope that the company can turn it around. It’s done so much for mobile telephony, it would be a shame if the future was to be without them. But for that, the clutter needs to be removed – and I’m not only speaking of the outdated phone software here…