Nokia’s advanced design team today shared “Homegrown”, a long term research project looking at how Nokia can help people make more sustainable choices. The team is exploring specific environmental and social issues including recycling, energy and how to make the benefits of mobile technology available to more people.
The project is being run by the same team who created Remade – a concept first shown at the Mobile World Congress earlier this year and that explores how recycled materials may be used in the future to make mobile devices. At today’s event in Nokia’s London design studio the team showed for the first time some of the other concept they are working on. These are:
Zero Waste Charger concept - this explores ways to reduce the energy that is wasted when chargers are unplugged from a mobile device but left plugged into a live mains socket.
People First concept – this concept takes three human universals of the way people think about communication – time, lists, and people – to inspire and examine new user interface ideas.
Wears in, not out concept – as more services become available on our mobile devices this concept explores how people could potentially upgrade their devices digitally rather than physically in the future, giving people an additional choice on how they use and update their mobile phones.
The design team developing these concepts works on a time frame of looking three to five years out into the future. By sharing some of these ideas and stimulating a discussion they hope to develop innovative new ideas that can be used both within Nokia’s own business but also more broadly to drive environmental improvements.
Photos of the concepts
Video of the Remade concept
Press materials and photos from the London event www.nokia.com/press
Closure by June 30, 2008
Nokia GmbH and the company’s works council have signed the social plan agreement on the closure of the Nokia Bochum site on April 23, following their agreement on the key elements of the plan on April 8.
The affected employees will be informed about the details of the social plan agreement by Nokia and the works council in a town hall meeting today.
The total amount of the social plan is 200 million euros – including severance payments and the establishment of a transfer company. Employees affected by the closure have the opportunity to move to the transfer and qualification company for 12 months, facilitating their search for new employment.
Thus, the aim to reach a fair and reasonable solution for all affected employees has been achieved. The Nokia GmbH Supervisory Board has decided on the closure of the Bochum site. The site will be closed by June 30, 2008 as planned.
S60 on Symbian OS is the world’s leading smartphone software. It is under continuous development by Nokia and licensed by some of the industry’s top mobile device manufacturers. Read more about S60 www.s60.com.
Please find attached the press backgrounder:
s60_press-backgrounder_web-2-0.pdf
Nokia further strengthened its presence in the CDMA market today, announcing two new phones tailored specifically for North American audiences. Welcome the Nokia 3606 and Nokia 1606 – devices that combine sleek exterior design with feature friendliness. With the addition of these two devices, Nokia now has CDMA handsets supporting upcoming AWS (1700/2100 MHz) networks.
