Nokia - Touch Screens To Be Next Big Thing! No Shit!
Nokia’s CTO just said (on June 18 2007) that Nokia believes that - sensors and touch will be the next big things…
No shit! I wonder how they worked that one out! Now, I don’t want to swear two blog entries in a row… but… Fuck me! Sometimes I wonder about people, I really do…
Asam Bashir wrote:
lol!
Posted 19 Jun 2007 at 1:10 pm ¶
simon wrote:
And, the best bit is that just last week, a Nokia exec said that Nokia’s view was that consumers weren’t interested in devices with touchscreens…
http://www.unwiredview.com/2007/06/11/nokia-e90-communicator-launch-this-week-entirely-new-type-of-mobile-next-year/
It’s almost unbelievable.
Posted 19 Jun 2007 at 1:28 pm ¶
Asam Bashir wrote:
After I finally decided to go back to Nokia after several years with SE, the Nokia UK Online Shop was down for about 8 hours - is that an omen?
Argggggggg, damnit I’m gonna have a general moan. I’ve actually been trying to get a decent replacement for my SE T610, great phone, but rapidly dying and it’s not going to make the long wait for the Euro iPhone, probably why it’s decided to die on me now at this critical phone juncture in myLife. Three years ago the T610 became a valuable tool, combined with Mac OS X Bluetooth phone services and Sailing Clicker (http://www.salling.com/) letting me use it as a remote control for my PowerBook. It was at the time the best phone for compatibility with Mac OS X features including Bluetooth file browsing, iSync and Address Book.app. The nifty SMS sending features of Address Book.app where almost paradigm shifting for my sms habits, and probably the main reason I’d never miss a qwerty keyboard on a phone. When my Mac is connected to my phone, I can ctrl-click a phone number in Address Book.app and type an SMS which is then sent through the phone. When I receive an SMS message on my phone it gets sent to my Mac and is displayed on my screen then logged. So any new phone has to do all of the above as basic, and that’s why all current and forthcoming Simbian Series 60, UIQ 3.0, SE phones are useless to the Mac head. SE has decided to use m-router instead of OBEX SyncML, and Apple has not added m-router as a plug-in to iSync even in Leopard. Sabotage ahead of iPhone release by Apple? Who knows, but p990i and P1 are no goes for the Mac head.
So even though my first phone was a Sony back in 92, I have to go back to the makers of my second phone, which was a Nokia 101 which I still have. I had a few more Nokias after that but think I got sick of the rubbish reception and they where too slow in their adoption of Bluetooth and I got a T68 instead. So when I got a Nokia N95 a few months back and tried the GPS and WiFi, reception was something I remembered Nokia as always having a problem with. I returned the N95 after 3 days, so it didn’t really matter anyway as I’d already decided that I didn’t need a brick, with a 2 hour battery life, that took longer to make a GPS fix then the optimal brewing time for a cup of tea. A very important measure of time in my world.
In this hinterland of my mobile phone using life, with the T610 on life support, I look to Nokia in desperation and fear for the next six months. For the reason given above, I don’t really care for a keyboard, the E62i just seems wrong in my hand, so I have no choice but to get a E65 - combined with the LD-3W Nokia Bluetooth Sirf III GPS module and TomTom Naviagtor 6, it’ll have to do me for navigation, voice, VOIP over Wifi, as well as iSync/Address Book.app/SMS functionality. My SMS usage has been in a dynamic flux since the Address Book.app friendly Callwave SMS Widget (http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/email_messaging/callwavefreetextmessaging.html) , but still nice to receive incoming messages on the Mac and be able to reply to them in Finder.
Nokia does seem to have someone at least aware of a Mac heads needs in this crucial time, they’ve got a new Mac app doing the beta rounds, which should help with syncing media with iLife apps,
Nokia Media Trasfer beta for Mac, http://europe.nokia.com/A4423134
and hopefully this new wireless keyboard app will work with Apple Bluetooth Keyboard,
http://europe.nokia.com/A4144291
But still, the only reason I’m getting a Nokia is because I can’t get a Euro iPhone, so in Europe at least Nokia is the only fully compatible phone for Mac OS X - which is fucking scary. The stores working again, and I do have a nice discount (which they sent me after I reported a major Manchester based importer selling fake Nokia in Ebay to them ha-ha) so off to try me luck with an E65, with no H2DP n all.
Posted 20 Jun 2007 at 2:57 am ¶
Asam Bashir wrote:
PS, you’ll note that my world totally ignores all phones that use Windows Mobile, for obvious reasons..
PPS, check out CallWave if you’ve not heard of them, http://www.callwave.com, they’re doing some great things in the widget market and visual voicemail….
http://www.callwave.com/widgets.asp
Posted 20 Jun 2007 at 3:01 am ¶
Asam Bashir wrote:
Ha-ha you WindoZZZZZeee users, you get in to the Sailing Clicker world after 3 years,
http://www.salling.com/Clicker/windows/
Posted 20 Jun 2007 at 3:12 am ¶
Asam Bashir wrote:
Nah, sorry like 5 years, forgot it was working from T68 and Mac OS X 10.2…
Posted 20 Jun 2007 at 3:19 am ¶
Asam Bashir wrote:
And going back in a circle to the original topic of this post, for all the reasons given above, Apple doesn’t think keyboards are that important to have on a phone, so this really will put Nokia’s keyboard/joystick centric view vs Apple’s touchscreen and gesture input - If the iPhone keyboard is just-good-enough, it’ll hurt Nokia even more then it’s expecting….
Posted 20 Jun 2007 at 3:37 am ¶
Asam Bashir wrote:
Urggggggg, I hate you Nokia you two timer, you make a proper Nokia Mac app at the dawn of the era of the iPhone, after years of laughing at Mac users when we asked for something equivalent to Nokia PC suit - You probably finally heard about Mac OS X when Apple became your biggest threat.
http://europe.nokia.com/A4423133
Posted 20 Jun 2007 at 4:31 am ¶