Nokia —
There’s no doubt about it - with iPhone V1.0, and now iPhone 3G, Apple caught Nokia asleep on the job. iPhone changes everything, and Nokia’s lack of credible response suggests that their senior management is: a) in denial about this; and b) doesn’t know how best to respond. Apple is, today, a small player in [...]
I’ve been using a new mobile phone, the Nokia 6500 Classic, for a few days now. Overall, I can say it’s the best mobile phone I’ve ever used. Here’s why…
Pros:
Supremely pocketable - a mobile phone should be easy to carry around. This phone is only 9.5mm thick and 45mm wide; and [...]
Electronic mapping, when combined with GPS satellite (or similar) navigation, is already a pretty good business. It’s hardly surprising - this technology is incredibly useful. For example, barely a day passes where I don’t use my in-car GPS sat nav. And yet, the key players, are only just scratching the surface of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s taken a few years, but at last mobile technology has reached the point where genuinely compelling smartphones can be made with form factors that will appeal to the mass market. The point is that, to appeal to the mass market, mobile phones have to be easily pocketable; and that imposes some size constraints. [...]