Last month we were a little surprised to hear Dell was considering entering the smartphone market. While the initial canned response to the odd news was “bandwagoner,” the same cannot be said for Nokia’s decision to enter the laptop field, or so we thought.
The last couple of months we’ve been caught up in smartphone fever but before that, it was all about netbooks. Everyone has a netbook, even that lightbulb company Sylvania took a shot at it. So it makes sense that Nokia wants to get in on the action, especially since everyone is saying cell phones and laptops are getting closer and closer together. The last week or so, tech sites have been full of reports about smartphones inching into MID/netbook territory.
Speaking to Finnish reporters, Nokia's CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said the company is "looking very actively" at entering the laptop market. "We are looking very actively also at this opportunity,” Kallasvuo said. “We don't have to look even for five years from now to see that what we know as a mobile phone and what we know as a PC are in many ways converging."
"Today we have hundreds of millions of people who are having their first Internet experience on the phone. This is a good indication," he said.
Nokia's the world's largest maker of cell phones, and it wouldn't be a drastic leap to figure that the Finnish company would like to replicate some of its mobiles success for laptops.
No details other than the admitance that the company is actually looking at producing laptops at some point but we’ll keep you posted. In the mean time, what do you guys think?
