July 18, 2008

Nokia Belatedly Opens Arms To Touchscreen Market July 18, 2008

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Nokia has stayed away from the touchscreen market with its mainstream mobile phones so far, preferring to leave this particular area to rivals like LG and HTC.

Like a lion studying a herd of grazing antelope it appears to be finally ready to pounce, and is planning not one but a range of touchscreen devices across the market.

Continued...

No doubt spurred on by the success of the iPhone, it really is time to put up or shut up and though we doubt we'll see anything quite as fancy as the Aeon phone, we hope it'll get a little more adventurous than the recently announced Tube.

According to Kai Öistämö, head of devices for Nokia, it'll be releasing a complete portfolio of touchscreen products to both the high and low end of the market.

The first of these sounds like it will be the Tube phone, which will be aimed at the mid-range market and be officially released in a few months, though now that Nokia's officially getting involved we'll be keen to see what else it comes up with towards the end of the year. - Paul Lester

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Nokia Tube touchscreen

Comments

too little, WAY too late...

Without the amazing app store backup and developers buy-in all these iPhoneys are just fish in a barrel. Granted, Nokia is a VERY big fish, but still in a barrel...

posted-by Russo | July 18, 2008 6:08 PM

A lion... or an old fashioned, slow-moving tortoise?

posted-by Tony | July 18, 2008 7:35 PM

Fish in a barrel competing with the iPhone?! Nokia could compete with the iPokalpys with a phone from the 90s

They might make a touch phone with a decent camera, that can actually send such simple things as MMS, and that work when you buy them.

all things Apple's offering cant.

Now if they can match the LG viewty or the new Samsung, thats the challenge...

Give me an iBreak

posted-by Chris | July 18, 2008 10:45 PM

Yeah, of course Chris, the LG Viewty and the new Samsung are much better than the iPhone ... Hmm ... what a stupid thing to say!

Me thinks you need to get a better working knowledge of technology ... especially if your only moan is that it cant do MMS! Im sure you've never even touched an Apple product, hence the reason your head is so buried in the sand!

Dont knock what you dont know matey - and before you say anything, I've owned the LG and Samsung (the later I have for a work phone) and one month down the line (and many technical problems with the sh*te thing), we're all using our own iPhones because NOTHING can beat them for versatility, style and usability. I guess selling 1 million 3G handsets in one day says it all!

Enjoy your Fisher Price mobile Chris you numpty!

posted-by Chad | July 19, 2008 4:11 PM

Tony, I've owned the LG viewty and the iphone before

and I must say

iphone > LG viewty in every way possible, even the shite camera

yea, 5mp? so what? crap marcos and focus sucks too

buggy software and when it breaks LG don't care and always tell you they'll ring you back but they don't

fuck em

the samsung one might be alright though, but it sure is ugly

posted-by Adam | July 19, 2008 6:19 PM

So Chad, can you send an MMS -- a phone standard -- or copy and paste, a Windows standard since the days of DOS? Okay, who's the numpty eh?

posted-by Tony | July 20, 2008 4:28 AM

You know it really makes me laugh seeing all the iApple fanboys posting on this blog. If the iPhone was that good (which it isn't seen as it is missing many features that have been standard on phones for some time now), then they wouldn't have to defend it.

Read this fanboys and cry

posted-by Anonymous | July 20, 2008 6:04 PM

Shot yourself in the foot their Chad i'm ON a Mac right now, (I dual boot vista and OSx for different tasks) and everyday see the company message boards full of people asking if anyone knows how to unbrick their iPhone, why it can't do "x", why it's only on one network, or just asking if they can even activate it yet. Most have given up on them and gone back to blackberrys or better mobiles, and these are hardcore designers who love their Macs.

Yeah, Apple can seriously shift units - they're excellent salesmen and like to sell people a lifestyle choice instead of a product. They shift a lot of iPods too but there are better MP3/4 players out there.

The fact that you defend the iPhone by claiming people who don't like it don't like any apple product would suggest you've bought into this iLifestyle marketing ploy... take a step back, look at the offerings from Samsung Sony Erickson and HTC and you'll see some far superior devices, you just don't get the snazzy branding with them though do you?

Shame.

posted-by Chris | July 20, 2008 6:09 PM

I have to agree, the iPhone is a waste of time at the moment. Until it pulls all of the standard phone features up instead of wowing people with new features then it's useless to most people as a phone. I would rather stick to my tactile buttons on a phone that takes good photos and vid, can multi bluetooth and do all the other normal whizz bangs. I'm waiting for Sony to do a touch screen K or C series phone. THAT will be good. Nokia's suck, I've had way to many problems with their newer phones. Bring back the days of the 3410's, etc. They didn't break and just worked!

posted-by Jay | July 21, 2008 9:41 AM

Both the new Nokia E66 and E71 are available for preorder in the UK on http://shop.nokia.co.uk

posted-by ChrisE36 | July 30, 2008 11:47 AM