25 June 2008

Video Interview - Lee Williams,
The head of the Nokia S60 Software organization

The folks over at Nokia Conversation blog have posted a video interview with Lee Williams, who heads up S60. Interview is mainly related to bunch of shocking news that we got yesterday.

Nokia is going to significantly improve the S60 platform with selected UIQ and MOAP technologies and to setup up an independent foundation to create one open and unified mobile software platform which will build on Symbian and will be free for about two years.

As a head of S60 Lee is hugely positive about the move, how it'll impact Nokia and the industry as a whole. Lee also knows and understands how the Foundation is going to work, both relative to Nokia and in and of itself.

Lee Williams, the head of the Nokia S60 Software organization, within the central R&D unit for the company, is responsible for managing, and delivering key Nokia software assets for the company's products. This includes the S60 software platform, related applications and product software for Nokia's S60 based devices and internet based services. Lee is also a member of the Symbian Board of Directors. He was the former head of Engineering and Product Development for Be, Inc., a company whose products included BeOS, BeIA and related applications and services.

Be was acquired by Palm Computing and Lee became head of Product Development and Delivery. Palm OS 4, 5 and smartphone variants were delivered during his tenure at the company. When the hardware and software businesses were spun off from Palm Computing, he went to lead the Engineering Product Development Group at PalmSource, the software platform company responsible for the Palm OS platform and related products. After leaving Palm, and before joining Nokia, he was the General Manager of the Mobility Software Division for Symbol Technologies prior to their acquisition by Motorola.