2012

Halti was intended to bring vivid internet access to people in emerging markets by wrapping an efficient, high quality device in a very robust package, and selling it below the $200 threshold. While it was never sold to consumers, this project reached a very high level of development with hundreds of functional prototypes built on assembly lines. They could be dropped, dunked, and stood upon without damaging the internal device. Its vulnerability, however, was its OS. It had been decided early in the project that in order to keep costs low, we needed to use a proprietary Nokia OS that was being developed in our Mobile Phones division. It was eventually realized that a new OS without a developed “ecosystem” was not plausible in the market, and the program was canceled.

I was key in Halti’s design development from it’s inception.