S60 Open to new features

When I hit up Phil to write for the S60 blogs, he asked me what I would like to write about. I spent some time thinking and I came up with something I call "Extreme Convergence."

The Nseries and Eseries devices are converging a larger number of "things" into a handset. Who is really making use of all of those features? Who might be taking that convergence to an extreme (for example, doing all their computing)? What are some of the challenges of having your computing life essentially in the palm of your hand? What other features can we cram into a mobile phone anyway? I'm sure we can take it pretty far, but how far should we go?

These are questions I hope to be able to explore while I write on this blog, but I'm sure that those of you who don't know me from my own personal blog might want to know a little about me first. I work for Enterprise Solutions in the Security & Mobile Connectivity Product Line Support team. I have surprisingly little to do with phones. You might see some of my handy work over on Nokia Support Web if you have purchased a Nokia Security Appliance as I am currently an editor for the Knowledge Base there. I've also written a couple of books on Check Point VPN-1, which is a software firewall that runs on the Nokia Security Appliances, among other things.

So why is a security guy who doesn't work with devices write about devices? Because we make really cool devices, if you haven't noticed! I also think that as the phones become more and more powerful, a lot of the security issues we have on desktop computers are going to start becoming issues on our mobile phones as well. It's only a matter of time. I would hope that as the leading manufacturer of mobile phones, we would learn from the mistakes of the dominant desktop PC operating system maker and bake security deep into S60 to prevent a lot of these problems from becoming issues.

I look forward to contributing to the conversation here on the S60 blogs and thank Phil for the opportunity to do so.