Nokia has three R&D centres in India, one each in Bangalore, Mumbai and Hyderabad. The centres are focused on next-generation packet-switched mobile technologies and communication solutions to enhance corporate productivity. While all the three centers are an integral part of Nokia’s global R&D infrastructure and therefore work on global projects, these centres do play a pivotal role in assimilating local flavors from the market and act as a conduit for information to the global product development teams

Of the three, the Bangalore R&D centre is the largest Nokia site in India. It was established in 2001 with the acquisition of Amber Networks. Over the years it has played a pivotal role in the development of new applications, software platforms and chipsets for high-end Nokia mobile devices. The software platform group works on development of parts of the base services for the platform, application frameworks, user interfaces and test tools. On the chipset side the work done in India is mainly in the area of ASIC design, hardware design, integration and verification, protocol software design and integration, speech and video codec design and integration.

The facility today houses over 1300 employees across all teams namely the S60 Software Organisation, Common Technologies, Next Generation (now called Maemo Software), Productisation and Software and Services, and other enabling functions.The vision of the center is to drive operational excellence and innovation in hardware, software and internet services with a great sense of pride. There is a strong intent to make it a growth site for Nokia through development of knowledge, resource and infrastructure building. To achieve this, the centre encourages and fosters an environment that encourages people to be connected to social networks; flexibility, sharing of best practices and spawning of new ideas with both internal and external customers.

One of the focus areas of the center is to increase the S60 invention flow through intense training and focus. There have been other key initiatives which have contributed significantly to the overall development of products and services. An example is S60 Webservices and Webvideo programs have qualified to the semifinals in the Product Excellence Category of the Nokia Quality Award 2008.