Tommi has a new position within Nokia
By Stefan Constantinescu on Wednesday, January 17th, 2007 at 8:59 AM PST In Financial/Corporate News
On 1st of January, I started in a new job position inside Nokia (NYSE: NOK).As many of you know, I worked three years in a quite remarkable S60
application development unit, hands-on in the development. Once more, I
want to thank all my old colleagues. It was truly a great ride.In the new role, I have a much wider scope, and I’m looking at
things from a more strategic perspective. Primarily, my job is to
understand what is happening out there – in the business environment of
S60 – and to ensure that we do right decisions. I haven’t updated the about page yet, but I will, as soon as I understand the new playground better.Anyway, I have agreed with my new boss that I can keep using ~20% of
my time in blog related activities (= writing this blog, replying to
your comments and emails, and reading and commenting other blogs). I
can keep writing about the same topics as before, but most probably the
topics I find worth interest will evolve hand-in-hand with the new job
responsibilities.Thanks everybody for your attention so far! I hope this blog will be worth your attention also in the future.
Source: Tommi’s S60 Application Blog
Business aspect of S60? So you’re not going to care about us consumers? 
I wish you the best of luck with your new role! You need to give us a few more hints as to what exactly it is you do now because I’m confused.
Thanks man.
In the future, please use a more fresh pic of me – the one you use is 3 years old… Here’s a newer mug shot that I took with N73: http://blogs.s60.com/voiceofs60/images/s60_tommi_vilkamo.jpg
> Business aspect of S60? So you’re not going to care about us consumers?
Well, Nokia is not a non-profit organization. Therefore, you have to think about the making-money part too. Luckily, the best way to make money in the long term is to create cool stuff for the people of earth, and to care about the people who buy the stuff we build.
Picture changed!
So what exactly is your responsibility now, I’m not quite getting it. Are you going after companies looking to deploy S60 to their mobile work force?
Not to speak for Tommi, but I think you are interpreting the word “business” too narrowly. I suspect he is dealing with issues such what are the strategic directions for development of S60 overall, differentiating it for different consumer groups, beating iPhone to pulp with the amazing new and intitutive editions of the S60 UI etc.
But what I really wanted to say: Oh boy, Nokia really does have deep pockets if they allow him to use 20% for blogging.
On a more serious note, it is probably a very smart investment from Nokia as the blogs are the pulse of the nerdy underworld of phone enthusiasts. 