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Saila Laitinen is Senior Consultancy Manager for Forum Nokia. She's got a new book coming out on Wiley entitled, "S60 Smartphone Quality Assurance" geared towards developers, licensees, operators, and other members of the S60 ecosystem who wants to get "the big picture" of S60. She met with me this past week to discuss her new book, the S60 ecosystem, and S60 quality assurance... Enjoy!

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Saila Laitinen joined Nokia year 1995 and she has worked in variety of positions and organizations within the company since then. She started as a master’s thesis worker in Nokia Networks and worked as a software engineer for three years, which sets up good grounds on having an overall understanding on software nature, development challenges as well as network technologies. During those three years she also worked as a project manager in a couple of software projects. This provided her primary understanding and know-how on how challenging it is to run the project both in budget and within given schedule.

After networks Saila joined Nokia Ventures Organisation to lead the testing activities in one venture. Then she gained international experience and worked in Nokia Hungary as an expatriate. In Hungary her responsibility was to manage the overall testing activities of Nokia’s very first presence server-product. After Hungary she moved back to Finland and joined the S60 product line, where she was leading the testing, triage and technical consultancy teams. These teams worked in a daily basis in the wind of S60 customer products and provided them the platform expertise in different technologies and activities. Lastly Saila joined Forum Nokia where she currently leads the global consultancy function to serve the biggest developer community innovating on top of Nokia platforms.

Working in all these organizations and both in the home base and abroad has given her very clear inside on mobile technologies and multi-cultural differences. Her several years experience nearby the S60 customer programs has given her the first hand knowledge needed in writing this book.

I met with Tommi Vilkamo this morning for a very nice interview. For those who don't know, he's host of Tommi's S60 Application Blog. We discussed his blog, S60 applications, himself, and answered a lot of great questions submitted by his readers. Enjoy! Here's the podcast...

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"Tommi Vilkamo works as a Technology and Business Analyst in a Nokia unit that develops built-in applications for Nokia's S60 based devices. As part of his work, he follows actively what is happening in the S60 ecosystem, in the mobile industry, and in the Internet world. Since November 2005, he has been writing an S60 blog, that is probably the most widely-read Nokia blog out there."