Palm design VP headed to Nokia to work on MeeGo

By on Sep 14, 2010 at 3:15 PM
General September 14, 2010

There has been quite a bit of press about high-level executives mobile maker Nokia has been shedding, but this fairly large addition managed to slip under the radar. Nokia has hired Peter Skillman — former Vice President of Design at Palm — to be their Vice President of MeeGo User Experience and Services. Skillman worked for Palm for over eleven years and headed the team that was in charge of designing the Palm Pre. Hopefully, Mr. Skillman’s addition will expedite Nokia’s development of the Linux based mobile OS.

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  • MacMan

    They call it a comeback. Nokia is coming out with something big

  • OneTwo

    what is with these steve jobs wanna be’s! those stupid black smock neck shirts from the 90′s

    • http://www.symbian-freak.com christexaport

      He didn’t wear them first. I wore them in elementary school in 1985.

  • http://www.e-articels.com Digi Life

    Nokia is not doing any special now?

  • AT33

    That’s great news, the UI from webOS is great! That’s what I’m talking about Nokia, kick out the old stuck up managers and bring in some young blood with some vision!

    • http://www.symbian-freak.com christexaport

      The WebOS UI is almost the same as Maemo5/MeeGo, as well as the internal components. Don’t see why HP doesn’t just merge with MeeGo and just make its WebOS UI with the UI toolkit, and save some costs.

  • wam

    Why cant Nokia bring some phones to Sprint? Bummer!

    • UrbanSimplist

      I emailed them a couple years ago about CDMA in the US and they basically weren’t interested in it. I wanted the E71 BADLY on Sprint.

  • UrbanSimplist

    “Ergonomics and Usability” is something Skillman touts as a “specialty” on his LinkedIn profile (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/peter-skillman/0/499/879). Did anyone find the keyboard from the Centro to Treo Pro to the Pre to the Pixi postively ergonomic and useful? His experience seems to have a hardware incline with software in there a little bit, but the colossal FAILURE of the Pre design is primarily what kept Palm from remaining independent. Motorola was not to long ago risking the same fate but pulled itself out the hole it dug itself with proper device design. Nokia better just brain drain this guy and give him a parachute next summer to make it look like his time there meant something. I had a Pre and am absolutely disgusted with the waste of an opportunity Palm had there. Now their HP, and that means dilution. Hurd’s mark on ignoring R&D vs. cost cutting will hamper innovation and new hardware for a while.

  • serpentor

    That’s strange. He’s heading up the software UI and services, but at Palm he was in charge of designing hardware.

    The real guy they want for this job is Martias Duarte (who did sidekick and webOS UI,) but he’s working on Android UI now.

  • burnett

    I think palm is fairly innovative when you take into consideration how sleek the pre and pixi looks(albeit small) it nice to marvel at, the touch stone backs were pretty cool, and the rubbery keys are much better then the hard plastic on my epic.

  • bluehorseshoe

    Don’t these companies learn anything? If your going to recruit, recruit from the best. Pulling someone from a failed company is the answer?

    Classic.

  • Capt America

    Another foreign company that needs American smarts to succeed. They all hate us, until they need us…which is whenever the going gets rough.

    • JK

      Exactly!

      How do think Kia started making bad-ass rides like the Soul!

      They brought Lee Iacocca out of retirement to run it!

    • http://www.symbian-freak.com christexaport

      Don’t be a nationalist/racist. All these companies are global. You think Palm is all US citizens? Moron…

  • btdown

    Sheez…How do you decide between two sinking ships. Not a call I would want to make.

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