GigaOm has an excellent entry on Nokia's long view of providing a device that is an open platform for the Internet. It discusses the gradual release of Nokia's N700/800 series of handheld devices, which are not released under any pressure to get them out fast, but rather to get them right. This is well conceived strategy and smart investment in R&D with open source software that I am hopeful will pay off for consumers in the future.

The article goes on to compare Apple's iPhone to CompuServe and Nokia to the Internet. Strange, that they say that because Apple promised an SDK, and by doing so, Apple are admitting that the tightly closed nature of the iPhone will limit its place in the long term. Their immediate focus on controlling the experience and selling units is obvious. It's very interesting to compare the strategy with Nokia's which has goals that are much further out, and which is willing to take a seemingly more measured release schedule.