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Nokia's New.... iPhone?
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Consumers do - and always will - punish poor copies like that one...
The iPhone more than a gadget, Nokia is just a piece of metal and plastic.
The iPhone more than a gadget, Nokia is just a piece of metal and plastic.
It was a concept phone, but the final design is what we now know as the 5800 Xpressmusic
I have one, it's not bad.. But, the Nokia build quality has dropped significantly in recent years. (i am talking hardware here people, Symbian is still good)
Totally off topic, but your username and avatar made me chuckle. "Tomorrow I'd tell her she's lost weight or that I liked what she'd done to her hair. Whichever seemed the most plausible."
Not surprising
It was only a matter of time for this to happen... take the LG cookie, a budget touch screen with nice little square icons, sound familiar?
The touch screen is clearly the users preferred method of interaction with their phones, and Nokia would be foolish to not push along these lines. The question now is - what unique features will define the next big mobile phone? The 3Gs is hardly unique in comparison to the 3G, and everyone is still awaiting the iPhone with removable memory.....
It was only a matter of time for this to happen... take the LG cookie, a budget touch screen with nice little square icons, sound familiar?
The touch screen is clearly the users preferred method of interaction with their phones, and Nokia would be foolish to not push along these lines. The question now is - what unique features will define the next big mobile phone? The 3Gs is hardly unique in comparison to the 3G, and everyone is still awaiting the iPhone with removable memory.....
Sure, but there's still a huge market for non-touch phones.
There are still many people who don't like touchscreens (or smartphones for that matter) and who prefer a simple numeric keypad phone.
For instance, my wife dislikes touch phones, I think partly because she's too vain to wear reading glasses all the time.
She just wants a dedicated keypad for dialing, and buttons for answer/hangup, without having to look at the screen. Her ideal smartphone would have programmable physical buttons to launch about six primary apps.
I understand her desire, because it's similar to the way that most people feel about TV remote controls. All-touchscreen remotes are nowhere near as popular as ones that also have physical buttons. Most people memorize the position of controls so they don't have to waste time looking for them.