Pertti Korhonen from Nokia is talking about the effect of mobile computing.

What do we need to unleash the potential? We need to simplify the user experience of rich environments, for example by bringing touch into the picture: Point and touch your mobile device. He touches his mobile device to a book. It makes a connection to an RFID tag. Now it can open a web site, push an app to his device, or it can push info to his peers.

Two ways of getting to super mobile devices: Try to shrink a PC or try to grow the simple mobile device to enable the new apps. Nokia likes the second approach.

We want personalization: Playing with ringing tones, new covers, etc. “We need to extend and encourage this type of human creativity.” [Could have used some exciting examples. ]

We are looking at how people want to share information. P2P is in the mainstream.

He shows Modish: Mobile distribution and sharing. It works with GPS radio and BlueTooth. Create groups. Capture. Publish.

His most important message today: Openness. Open interfaces and open standards to insure that the maximum amount of innovation can take place. Globally agreed Internet standards making their way to cellphones. Nokia builds on top of Symbian. They have a platform on top of Symbian designed for designing apps and UIs.

This year they will ship 100M devices with Java . “That’s a lot of sockets.” Java is “the prime end-to-end platform we want to support.” They also support Python.

Example of an innovative app: Photoblogging. 400,000 tools and docs are downloaded every month — quite an active developer community.

He demos a simple program that navigates weather info.

We need to start a lively conversation with Internet experts about what to do to enable groups.

Q: It’s great that Nokia isn’t openness and innovation, but the carriers aren’t. Can use your influence to explain to them the importance of open standards? [applause]

Q: Your developer tools are generally Microsoft only. How about Linux and the Mac? [applause]

A: We’ll be releasing new tools. We think it’s important not to be single-platform.

Internet technology will enable integration across domains. IPv6 is important, too, because it will enable device-to-device addressing will be possible, making P2P possible.

Q: How about DRM?

A: It’s important that we put DRM in. The field has been fragmented, but we think it’ll come together.

(Overall, he’s made an impressive case for Nokia’s commitment to openness.)

[The incredibly helpful Greg Elin (“He gives and gives and gives…”), sitting next to me, is more impressed with this talk than I am. He’s hearing that the rest of the world forms the same personal relationship with their phones that we in this room (and in this country to some extent) form with our PCs.]

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