Nokia’s newly appointed Mobile Solutions chief, Anssi Vanjoki, has penned an ardent post over at Nokia Conversations currently where he sets out his viewpoint upon a company’s current place and future challenges. Describing a Finnish phone maker as “a challenger now,” rather than than an incumbent, Vanjoki wants to introduce the “laser focus on quality,” with his two central aims being to retrieve Nokia’s reputation for high-end inclination and to re-energize a flagging air blower bottom. He privately namedrops Ricky Cadden — who yesterday close down Symbian-Guru since he’d lost conviction with the association — and clearly considers grassroots support like which an critical aspect of how Nokia’s success will be judged.

As to the tangible program front, Anssi confirms which the N8 will be the last Symbian^3 handset in a N-Series, though describes a Symbian^4 device in which family as the “clever possibility,” a note that he follows up with a wink (seriously). Symbian is apparently still Nokia’s smartphone OS of preference — no Androids shall be found inside Nokia’s hardware underneath Anssi’s watch — yet MeeGo additionally earns the discuss as a “overwhelming” platform for delivering “market-changing mobile computers.” Just in box you were wondering, Anssi finishes off by revelation us which these wondrous computers will be tiny enough to fit into your slot — yet, sadly, he fails to mention just what sort of slot which competence be.

[Thanks, Peter]