UPDATE 1-Nokia considering entering laptop industry-CEO

Wed Feb 25, 2009 9:28pm GMT
 
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* Top cellphone maker looking to enter PC industry

* PC makers have been entering cellphone industry

* The line between the two industries are blurring (Adds more CEO comments, analyst, background)

By Tarmo Virki

HELSINKI, Feb 25 (Reuters) - The world's top cellphone maker Nokia (NOK1V.HE) is eyeing entering the laptop business, its Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said in an interview to Finnish national broadcaster YLE on Wednesday.

"We are looking very actively also at this opportunity," Kallasvuo said, when asked whether Nokia plans to make laptops.

Industry has rumoured about Nokia's possible plan to enter the PC industry since late last year, but Kallasvuo's comment was the first official admittance of such plans.

"We don't have to look even for five years from now to see that what we know as a cellphone and what we know as a PC are in many ways converging," Kallasvuo said.

"Today we have hundreds of millions of people who are having their first Internet experience on the phone. This is a good indication," he said.  Continued...

 

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