Nokia promises to improve user experience in 2010

Nokia said improving the mobile user experience tops its operational priorities for 2010, promising to re-engineer the Symbian user interface in the year ahead. At its annual Capital Markets Day event in Helsinki, Nokia outlined a series of financial and operational targets across its business, anticipating its mobile device volume share will remain flat in 2010 while industry device volumes increase about 10 percent year-over-year. According to Nokia, it expects more than 300 million consumers worldwide will actively use its services by the end of 2011.

A superior user experience is critical to meeting those goals: Nokia said its Symbian UI revamp will include "a major product milestone before mid-year 2010, and another major product milestone before the end of 2010." In addition, its first Maemo 6-powered mobile computer, with "an iconic user experience," is set to ship in the first half of next year. Nokia also said it will significantly expand the number of touchscreen and/or qwerty smartphones in its portfolio, grow its services business geographically via new operator partnerships and provide developers with better tools to create applications for its Ovi ecosystem.

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