A little over a month today, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs told Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat that by the end of this year there will be a Nokia product out on the market using the company’s well known Snapdragon processor, and that it would run Symbian. When Business Week asked Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kalasvuo about the possibility of such a product, he replied:
I cannot comment on that one. All I can say is that Qualcomm definitely is a potential partner going forward. The companies did fight a long time in court, and now we see them as a potential partner.
No comment is code for “yes, but if I said something then corporate communications would kill me.” I’m sure after he accidentally announced “Leevi and Gadget” in a conference call almost 2 years ago, he got a lesson about what he can, and can’t, say in public.
Read the whole interview to hear about what he has to say about Palm, Nokia’s partnership with Microsoft, and the same tired description of how Nokia is working hard to make themselves relevant in the North American market once more.