* The complete design process, from concept creation to product testing * The future of small interfaces * Usability engineering in practice in the mobile environment * The elements of a Nokia User Interface * First person accounts of the product development cycle

Learn the processes that helped Nokia develop the world's most desirable handheld

Until not very long ago the mobile phone was expensive and the preserve of a rich few. Today the cellphone is everywhere--so common it goes unnoticed. Jon Agar tells the fascinating story behind the rise and rise of this incredible little device.

This book shows how the hybrid model, which uses both market and committee mechanisms, explains standard setting and firm competition in the mobile communications industry. The hybrid model explains why certain mobile communication standards like GSM have become global standards while others, for example digital standards supposed by US firms, have not become global standards. The hybrid model also explains why Nokia is the leading producer of mobile phones and Ericsson the leading producer of mobile infrastructure.

This volume, concerned with social/political theory questions, is first in a new series which examines the ways in which the emergence of new business and professional classes in East and South East Asia are radically altering the global economic balance of power, opposition, and consumption

Global instantaneous mobile telephony is at the cutting edge of the communications revolution. Humanity, for Martin Heidegger, is 'the entity that talks'; Jurgen Habermas is a passionate advocate of authentic human interaction.

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