New iPhone Competitor From Nokia
Nokia has just the world a taster of its new iPhone competitor. Check out the YouTube video below.
As you can see, the new Nokia phone has a large touch screen, gesture-based interface. That gesture-based user interface (UI) has been one of iPhone’s unique value propositions to the end user: that is, the gesture-based UI has enabled Apple to develop some beautiful software for the phone.
Now, when you combine a gesture-based user interface, with all IP that Nokia puts into phones (iPhone is a simple device by comparison), this new phone clearly has a huge amount of potential. It goes without saying, though, that Nokia needs to execute well on this device in order to compete with Apple. That means, for example, the phone should not crash randomly, and frequently, throughout the day…
Asam Bashir wrote:
Well that is the problem with Nokia, they just don’t seem to get out firmware updates in a timely manner. For example, my E65 is still crashing 20 times a day, and it’s supposed to be an enterpise phone for business users. Nokia has good ideas, but they don’t get it when it comes to user experience.
Not sure what impact this new Nokia music store is going to have on iTunes. iTunes is sucessful first because of user experience, exactly the very thing that Nokia can’t seem to get right. Obviously as we learn more of the service we’ll be able to better judge if it’s a real threat to iTunes but don’t think Apple are worried at all….
Posted 30 Aug 2007 at 4:21 pm ¶
simon wrote:
Yes, the crashing thing is riidiculous. The Nokia dev teams must be really overstretched (they ship a huge number of products). I can’t believe the people involved want to ship rubbish software.
From a business perspective, you could argue that Nokia’s approach (throwing flaky products over the wall and then fix up those that consumers buy in volume) might work better than Apple’s approach (try to ship a few robust products).
I actually hope that’s not correct though… I’d really like to believe that the best-designed, best-engineered products would win-out…
As for Nokia doing an iTunes… they don’t have a hope in hell of competing with Apple on that (if that’s what they’re trying to do, I haven’t looked at what they’ve said in that area).
Posted 30 Aug 2007 at 6:16 pm ¶
Marc wrote:
My N95 has a shoddy build quality. Nothing like my old 3210 in that respect!
Still not one beats Nokia in terms of phone interfaces, although I’ve not used the iPhone so I can’t comment about that.
Posted 30 Aug 2007 at 10:04 pm ¶