Plotting Nokia's assault on the services space

Nokia has been building momentum in the services space of late – an initiative which has been interesting to watch for two reasons. One, because all this talk of social networking and Moshing is suggestive of the world’s biggest handset vendor shaking off its typically dour, Finnish image. And two, because of the controversial statements coming from the typically dour, Finnish chief executives of the world’s biggest handset vendor.

When talking about the deal to get Boingo wifi onto Nokia phones recently, Nigel Rundstrom, vice president of Nokia Multimedia, said: “This agreement reinforces Nokia’s commitment to become an internet driven experiences company – offering not only great devices but also exciting services around them.”

This builds on Olli Pekka Kallasvuo’s comment at the Ovi launch about how, “devices alone are not enough anymore.”

But Ovi was just the start of it:

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