Nokia launches a community website for professionals interested in exploring and envisioning a mobile future

Nokia today seized the initiative in the mobile Internet space by announcing a new website designed to help shape the emerging Mobile Information Society. More than an online magazine, TheFeature (www.thefeature.com) aims to become the industry’s premier thinking space. TheFeature’s members – industry professionals, academics, media, and others – now have a place to gather, learn about, and discuss the issues that affect the industry, and share their visions of a mobile future.

"Today Nokia lives up to its role as a leader in the mobile Internet space by providing an insightful, informative, and educational resource for professionals interested in exploring, envisioning and sharing ideas of the future of our mobile society," said Nokia Senior Vice President, Martin Sandelin.

TheFeature helps mobile minds meet by offering its members a lively community and a set of networking features that includes open discussion forums and virtual business cards. Membership is free.

In addition, TheFeature offers visionary writing and multimedia content from its own staff and contributors, and up-to-date news, information, and in-depth analysis from such hot-button content partners as The Industry Standard, Red Herring, the451.com, The Register, and TheStreet.com.

Opening the site, Professor Sandy Pentland, Academic Head, MIT Media Laboratory, cited by Newsweek as one of the most influential people shaping the future today, writes about how the wireless Internet can help bring health, education, and political issues to the fore in developing countries.

In keeping with our anytime/anywhere mobile philosophy, TheFeature offers its visionary content tailored for WAP-enabled devices, Nokia Communicators, and Palm OS PDAs via AvantGo.

The comments and opinions expressed on TheFeature are solely those of its writers and content partners and are not official statements by Nokia or any of its business partners or affiliates.
TheFeature.com – It's all about the mobile Internet!

Further information:
Nokia Corporate Communications
Tel. +358 9 1807 424
Fax: +358 9 652 409

www.nokia.com