Palm designers say future mobile phones should have four essential elements

Nokia Meego Department head Peter Skilman (Peter Skillman) Beijing time September 19 afternoon news, according to foreign media reports, Nokia Meego Department head Peter Skilman (Peter Skillman) recently said that At present, most of the handset manufacturers for the product division of meticulous, resulting in too many models of mobile phones, so that users feel confused.　　Skillman also said that the future of mobile phones must support the four elements of cloud services. Peter Skilman (Peter skillman) is well known in the mobile phone market and design arena for years as a product design firm IDEO and smartphone maker Palm.　　This Monday, Skillman joined Nokia, responsible for Meego system user experience and service department. September 10, the day before Nokia's career, Skillman a speech at the California design company Zurb.　　During the period, Skillman talked about his 11 years working experience in Palm, Palm's success and failure, Nokia's direction of development, the future of the mobile phone industry, and so on. Palm's success Skillman said Palm had been a leader in the PDA and smartphone market, but by the beginning of this century, everyone thought Palm had died before the Palm Pre smartphone went public.　　To save the company, Skillman a recovery plan from a design perspective, trying to attract mobile operators again. 2009, Palm launched the pre smartphone as a lifeline. Skillman is very proud of the pre. For example, pre's Synergy function is to gather information from different sources, such as social networks.　　"It's even better than any desktop solution," Skillman said. Skillman also praised the wireless charger Touchstone, for the September 2009 listing of the smart phone Pixi's compact design also has a unique feeling.　　Of course, Skillman also talked about some of Palm's shortcomings. Palm failure For example, pre and Pixi occasionally have some performance problems because the browsers for these two phones are designed based on relatively new technology WebKit.　　Skillman admits that the webOS system gives a less-than-perfect hint icon when new text messages and phone calls are not answered. Skillman also talked about Palm's marketing problems.　　Skillman thinks, the second webOS mobile phone "Pixi" This name is not good, easy to produce uprising. Compress product model Skillman spoke more about the future of himself and the mobile industry. Skillman said the interview with Nokia took 9 days to compare the status of Nokia with that of palm prior to releasing the pre. Skillman said: "I want to be able to inject my passion again, as I did in palm." Skillman also said he had discussed the issue of compressing product models with Nokia executives. At present, the handset manufacturer excessively "subdivides" the market, causes the product to be too many, thus disperses the user attention. Skillman said: "I hope Nokia can focus on developing some quality products." Skillman also talked about cell phone design and innovation.　　In a country where the subsidies are rife, he says, equipment makers will fail if they do not succeed in the high-end market, because the market can only hold 5 of companies. The four essential elements of design and manufacturers to be off, their products must have some elements: high-quality hardware, cloud services, rich and friendly user interface and developer support. Skillman said: "Lose one point, will die." In addition, Skillman also suggested that mobile phone manufacturers adopt new technologies, such as gesture recognition. Skillman said he had tested Apple's iphone and Samsung Android handsets and was optimistic about Microsoft's Windows Phone 7. "There is no solution, no one wears the same shoes, wears the same watch, and so does the smartphone," he said. "(Li Ming)