Comments on: Nokia’s Touch Phone on Oct 2. Too Little Too Late?

By: kevin_405

kevin_405 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:42:19 +0000

IPhone is great but with its weired marketing and high cost shuns a lot of users..
I would never sign up for a 3 year plan just to get iphone…

Is there any other company that makes handsets with better radios than Nokia. Nokia XPress Music costs 299$ with out contract… yes a great price for a good device..

I still think Nokia with its pricing and pro consumer approach will previal..

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Nokia Announces N97 SuperPhone, Won’t Sell It For Months - GigaOM — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:23:35 +0000

[...] take a lot more for Nokia to beat competitors, especially Apple iPhone.You can buy Xpress device, first announced in October 2008, for $314 unsubsidized though in India and Russia the prices are higher. On 5800 Xpress, a friend [...]

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:51:56 +0000

Well I know of one web browser that runs flash, but the main problem is the scaling and website support. It runs flash video in browser perfectly fine from DailyMotion.com

But then again it is a N95 running R&D software.

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Nokia com touch-screen « 48kapa — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:36:10 +0000

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…te calles ya! » Blog Archive » Predicción para el Nokia Tube — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:46:01 +0000

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By: Ramanan

Ramanan — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:30:05 +0000

I have a Nokia N91,It always delivers me the Good Quality music with 8 band Eq.,Stereo Widening and Loudness. it Shines in All Aspects with the S60 V3. This can be expected in the Nokia’s Tube too as it also belongs to S60.
But in iphone the very famous ipod lacks Eq. or any other Audio Settings. Shame on it.

By: AC

AC — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:00:25 +0000

Jose, I believe those Google stats are for the U.S. market only. As for Opera Mini being “still very far from the iPhone”, that’s a bit subjective, yes? I for one want to get to my web content straight away without any finger gymnastics, and actually prefer mobile-optimized sites on a handheld screen.

And KenC, again I must ask: Why is touch (or multi-touch) a benchmark feature for smartphones? By this logic Tablet PCs would vastly outsell regular laptops, yet AFAIK that’s not the case…

By: KenC

KenC — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:47:49 +0000

@AC, it’s not how many devices have an Opera browser, it’s how many are actually using them, and how much they are using them. As for how many, there were 6M EDGE iPhones sold before they were phased out. Analysts are estimating from 4.5M to 6M 3G iPhones sold this quarter, leading to a total of 10.5M to 12M total iPhones, not counting iPod Touches which also use Safari’s mobile browser. Apple’s mobile browser dominates the mobile browser category according to webstats. It’s not even close.

As for the iPhone and how others compete, it’s not enough to just have a touch screen. The iPhone has a MULTI-touch screen. Why is it that everyone forgets that? To compete, you need to implement multi-touch, not just touch. That’s what has differentiated the iPhone so far. It’s all about multi-touch. None of the other phones have it, yet.

By: Jose Miguel Cansado

Jose Miguel Cansado — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:49:02 +0000

AC, I have had an Nokia N70 and N73, both with Opera, and the mobile web experience is still very far from the iPhone.

Some facts, extracted from a previous post:
“In January, Google disclosed that the traffic to Google sites from iPhones had surpassed any other smartphone, despite iPhone accounts for only 2% of the worldwide smartphones, Nokia’s Symbian 63%, Windows Mobile 11% and RIM 10%.

Later in March, M:Metrics confirmed that 85% of iPhone users access the web from their handset, compared to 58% of smarphones, and a mere 13% of the overall market.”

Read (and watch) more:
http://tech-talk.biz/2008/05/15/at-last-mobile-web-thanks-to-iphone/

By: AC

AC — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:20:45 +0000

Jose, you do realize that the mobile web has actually been around since BEFORE the iPhone, and currently the world’s most popular mobile web browser is Opera Mini — it already has ten million users, at least on par with the best estimate of total iPhones sold thus far:

http://tinyurl.com/45vapu

And before you counter with the iPhone’s “superior web experience”, lets remember that NONE of the mobile browsers on the market can currently handle Flash.

By: Jose Miguel Cansado

Jose Miguel Cansado — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:55:05 +0000

@symbianguru, as you mention it is not about number of features (iPhone is lacking a few) but about making the user experience enjoyable. e.g. iPhone’s Safari browser has finally made mobile web a reality.

And it is not the touch-screen only. Windows Mobile phones had it before the iPhone (although less cool). I know many people waiting for the Blackberry Bold to switch back to BB from iPhone, because for mobile email, there is nothing like Blackberry with its qwerty keyboard.

RIM makes great business mobile email devices, iPhone makes a great cool multimedia & web device, Android makes great open mobile Internet & communication devices. Nokia keeps doing phones (with a me-too multimedia player)

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:33:32 +0000

Om,

I love your entries, but this one makes no sense. First of all why do you assume this is for developing countries? Cuz it is low cost? and I think low cost is relative and it is more targeted for the EU where people don’t spend a lot of money on Phones. Too late? why too late? Apple V2 just came out and GPhone V1 just came out too. The other guys have produced ridiculous phones that I don’t even consider competitors. In Europe, the iPhone has done terrible and Nokia is still going strong. Don’t look at the US market. Plus, you really don’t know what the new Nokia can do, let’s wait until Oct 2 and then judge. Let’s make something clear, I don’t work for Nokia and only owned one Nokia phone back in the 90’s but have been doing Mobile for a long time…

By: AC

AC — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:57:47 +0000

I have a bit of an issue with the premise of this piece, i.e. that a touch-screen is a make-or-break feature on a successful mobile device.

Could it not be that Nokia (and RIM, for that matter) are releasing touch-screen devices to satisfy an irrational market demand for them?

By: Abhishek Baxi

Abhishek Baxi — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 06:38:59 +0000

I’m a HTC Touch user. I’m a perenial Nokia anti-fan. Haven’t seen any major innovation coming from Helsinki. Let’s face it N-series is ohh lala but still, bulky phones with average UX.

Gimme a WinMo anyday.

By: Sachin

Sachin — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:09:04 +0000

I can bet you that it will disappoint all.

By: Patch

Patch — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 03:09:45 +0000

@Francis “Their advantage is with the business user, which is where Apple has missed the mark with the iPhone.”

This is funny :) I can see a Blackberry user say that, Nokia in the business world ? I see iPhone everywhere in the corporate world.