Nokia 'looking very actively' at making laptops, says CEO

Convergence is happening on all sides. PC makers Acer and HP pushed their way into the smartphone market this month, and now we await the push by a phone maker into the PC business.

Statements from Nokia's President and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo yesterday affirmed his company's interest in making notebook computers, if nothing else. Kallasvuo told Finnish broadcaster YLE that Nokia is "looking very actively" at producing a PC.

Kallasvuo said, "We don't have to look even five years into the future to see that what we know as a mobile phone, and what we know as a PC are converging in many ways. Today, we have hundreds of millions of people who are having their first Internet experience on the phone. This is a good indication."

And a good indication of Nokia's interest in the PC market is its previous ventures outside of the confines of the handset category with products such as the N800 and N810 Internet tablets.

If Nokia makes laptops that are more like its N-series of handsets and less like its attempts at MIDs, it will definitely be a company to reckon with in the sector.