Phone or a Multimedia Computer

According to The Seattle Times, workers in Nokia (NYSE: NOK) are forbidden to call any Nokia device a “phone”. Instead they are “multimedia computers”. Now, that’s weird. I can understand that people call their smartphones “mobile computers”, but “multimedia computers”!? Kind of obsolete – almost all computers today have the multimedia features. Also, what about Nokia’s regular phones – without Symbian?

Is Nokia looking to consolidate all their consumer devices (including 770) in the single category – “multimedia computers”, or are they trying to expand their reach even more. The Seattle Times’ reporter raises many questions…