I love Nokia. Period. This blog should be proof alone of that. There is however one company I am even more passionate about: Lenovo
If I had a choice between a brand spanking new N95, better yet the unreleased E90 or a new Lenovo ThinkPad then without hesitation I would get a laptop.
Why don’t I write a Lenovo blog?
That market is saturated. There are more notebook review sites out there then I have fingers and toes. They do a fantastic job covering Lenovo and their laptops so I don’t see how I could improve what is already out there.
What is the point of this post?
Lenovo recently started blogging, last summer I believe, and I’ve been reading what they’ve had to say since day 1. Today they touched on something important to many users, a post entitled: "So Why Did My AC Adapter Change?" I immediately thought of Nokia, who also adopted a new, smaller, power connector. I would like it if someone from that little company in Espoo told me why they did that, wouldn’t you?
Do you know how satisfying it is to have a company tell me why they did what they did? To give me technical reasons why it happened? To apologize for the frustration they’ve caused but it was the only way to adopt the latest and greatest hardware?
When I think Lenovo I don’t think ThinkPad anymore, I think about David Churbuck, Matt Kohut, Terence McCarthy and Tim Supples. Real people who I can email whenever I want and talk to them about a product I am very passionate about. They’ve succeed in giving their company and products that human touch. No company has even come close to meeting the bar that Microsoft set with Channel 9, but I digress.
I would love it if Nokia started a hardware blog. Please use a standard blogging engine like WordPress or Typepad because that N series blog during CES was a huge pain in the ass.
The S60 blogs are a smashing success, when someone says Nokia the names Tommi Vilkamo and Phil Schwarzmann immediately pop in to my head. Time to expand and actually have someone talk about what makes Nokia the brand it is today. It isn’t S60, it’s the phones.