• Rich Context Modeling - Meeting your needs based upon your environment
• New User Interface - Interact joyfully and intuitively through technology
• High Performance Mobile Platforms - Devices that adapt to you and your environment
• Cognitive Radio - Liberate access to optimize spectrum

There's an overview, technology papers and examples of each area here. If you have time I recommend the technology insight papers, fascinating bedtime reading with wild, futuristic dreams guaranteed.

                
                                                    Source: Nokia Researc Center, cognitive radio


Talking about spectrum, the auctions are on again. Finland is assigning frequency ranges between 2500-2690 megahertz,  primarily reserved for wireless broadband (interestingly there's a problem with lower LTE frequencies because Russian military interferes in that range, hmm...). Finland hasn't auctioned frequencies before, but we all remember what the UMTS auctions did elsewhere in Europe some years ago. I think some of those operators are still suffering from the price they eventually ended up paying, I mean, those operators that survived. In market economy it is the customer who pays in the end, so I'm not a fan of these auctions. They raise the price too high and cripple the operators' ability to provide high quality, low cost services. Government gets the big money, yes, but often that is spent on some short term expense that won't recharge the economy in a way that a reasonably priced service on an upgraded communications network would. And remember, I'm saying this as a tax payer in a country that has one of the highest taxes in the world. I am what they call a happy tax payer (yes they do exist).