Some lessons learned --- I hope ....

Developing maemo and Internet Tablets has always been a learning journey for us at Nokia. We have learned a lot about using mainstream open source technology in mobile devices, about integrating big company and open source culture together, about shipping open source based products, and about working with communities.

An important learning case happened during the last spring. We made some mistakes. No doubt about it! And on top of all, we underestimated the passion people had towards our work and products.

We launched the N800 in January. People loved the product. But some of you simply didn't accept that we didn't promise to provide new features and hacker support for the old 770s any more. Back in January -07, we got a lot of comments that eventually made us re-evaluate the 770 software situation. And now, as you know, a few days ago we released an Internet Tablet OS 2007 Hacker Edition for the Nokia 770. Not perfect, but we are learning.

So thank you. Your enthusiasm, positive comments, good reviews, criticism, sarcasm, and doom's day predictions prove that we are doing something right. Actually, I have not received any 770 software comments with f words for my posts recently ... so wake up, kids! Something's wrong?

Another thing we put out recently was the Hildon Input Method Framework.

And next week I gonna go out myself and fly to Madrid.