Nokia responds to Apple's iPhone- from TechDigest

Nokia responds to Apple iPhone - 'it is a surprise that the iPhone is not 3G'

So, the Apple iPhone has finally been announced. So what does this mean for existing mobile phone makers? I just interviewed Nokia's vice president of Nseries Computers Pekka Pohjakallio at CES, and here's what he had to say, having spent the morning receiving text messages from Nokia's spies watching Steve Jobs' speech.

"I think it confirms our story," he says. "We have been preaching the message of converged multimedia in one device, with lots of use cases and a good experience for the whole life of Nseries. And now Apple have come and said basically the same thing, even if they have implemented some things differently.

"It just confirms our message, and it's good to have others preaching the same message. The best company will win in the end, so I think it's good news for us. It's not a threat, although of course it's hard competition, but that usually makes you perform better yourself."


LINK-> http://techdigest.tv/2007/01/nokia_responds.html



yea, i remember a lot of apple guys were saying that convergence device sucks and it is better to have dedicated MP3 players (ipod) + phone.... now everybody sings a different tune... maestro jobs, is singing it, hence they follow...
 
What sort of logical process leads you to draw a world wide conclusion from a sample of..........one? Are you joking?

Second, video calling is pretty much discredited everywhere. Here in the UK 3G users tend to use it for high speed web access and watching TV or streams.

And, speaking as an american myself, I'll tell you that we are the most obvivious mobile phone users in the world. No one else puts up with what we have in the US: fractured proprietary networks, usurious 2 year contracts, awful selection of handsets, atrocious customer "service" and network coverage that frankly is worthy of the old Soviet Union.

Lets put it this way: its not that long ago that you couldnt send a text mesage from one US phone company to another. For no technical reason at all - just the desire to lock down users. Jeez....
 
3G is huge in the EU from my experience. People just don't use it for video calls. I really don't care if you're picking your nose when you talk to me, most people don't care if I have a zit on my chin either. Video calls are very niche, I could see them for a husband living abroad or something, but it's not something you'd use every day.

3G is usable for a LOT more, and anything that speeds up my data access I'm all for.
 
every department has it's fanboys, and there is no one like the apple fanboy. If it has an "I" in front of it, it must be the best.

I like the i-phone, don't get me wrong, but I think all Apple products are driven by hype. If I see an "I", I usually think overpriced.

I guess I could be considered a Nokia fanboy, but I've used just about every brand of phone in the business and there's very few that come close to Nokia's Symbian line up.
I'll wait and see what the opinions are on the phone before I make a final judgement. Right now it's all hype.
 
Nokia's presence is limited in US becoz ... GSM providers are very few & they are not getting support from them unlike in Asia & Europe. More over Asia is the emerging market for cell phones.. as more people are switching to cell phones as they are cheaper than landline. Nokia presence is already there in these markets & they are just just grabbing more. I read some where that Nokia sold 500,000 new units in just ONE day in India. Granted these are basic average phones. But look at the volume!! It's more profitable & easy for them than going after a new market.

Why Nokia to bother in a very small smarket(compared to ASIA/Europe) in US when there is no support with stingy providers like Cingular???
 
For all of Apple's flaws, and all the fanboy-ism, they generally put out well designed products with very nice interfaces. Just the kind of thing the cell phone world relies on.

I own a couple macs, heck - I even used to work for Apple. You know why I own them? They're easy to use, get the job done quickly, don't behave "randomly", and generally aren't proprietary-format-based. (Example, MS Outlook - I can't use it because it converts attachments into some crazy format on my IMAP mailstore, which makes them totally unusable to any other mail client. Mac Mail doesn't do that.)

I do agree with the "wait and see" mentality - actually - nobody really has a choice. They don't come out until June. That said, I suspect it's going to be a pretty nice phone.

I expect a lot more out of an official response from Nokia, that's for sure. That seems impromptu, and ill-advised. They sure as heck better have a better "answer" to the iPhone than they are letting on about. Maybe they do... time will tell.
 
and dont forget that there is cdma in NA...i dont think they exist in asia, well at least hk/macau (dont mistake with 3g/wcdma)
 
That's a good response from Nokia. I don't think they have a lot to worry about right now though. The iPhone won't even reach their strongest markets for a while, and it may be considered outdated by then, especially without 3G. Plus this is Apple's only offering for now. Most consumers don't want (or can't afford) a phone like this. The low-end and mid-range markets shouldn't be affected by this phone for a while (if at all).
 
I will break it down to everyone in simple terms. Any Business majors in here will agree with me on a small scale:

1) AMERICANS WANT THE CHEAPEST, THE MORE POPULAR, THE HYPED UP, AND THE MORE ADVERTISED.

A note on that. Why is it that many Americans know about the 8800 Nokia phone, compared to the N73, N80, and N series in general? Because the 8800 got some world-wide hype.

Now, ask yourself one question. Do Americans know what BMW and Mercedes is all about? I love comparing this to cars because everyone in the world can relate to cars more than anything. So, Americans DO know what BMW is. Do they all run out to get it? No, if every American on my block had a BMW, I would get rid of mine, like angel said. In fact, I would love to be one of the few people in my city with a BMW. I don't care if they don't know what it is....

So..do they all know what Nokia is all about? NO. But the ones that do, go for it and love it.

I had motorola phones (with NEXTEL service) for a while, and one day a friend wanted me to sell his N71 on ebay.

The phone spent the night in my room before getting shipped, and I'll tell you guys one thing; as soon as I held that n71, I knew right then and there that Nokia had something I didn't know about. I knew then and there I had to get a Nokia, and I came in the Nokia forums and ditched the Nextel forums, and the next day I let go of Nextels iden service, switched to TMOBILE to get GSM service...because of one reason: I wanted a Nokia.

Guys, this is all business. It's all advertising. If everyone know what Nokia had to offer, they would go for it. The low end phones they offer everyone are in fact better than the v3 and others, but not every computer user had a custom built gaming PC...they all go for Dell, the more popular, easy, and simple to use computer. The best part is..when they try to play games and wonder why they lag and get blurs everywhere.
 
This is also true when it comes to buying an American car or a foreign car. Americans percieve American cars as inferior to foreign cars, so what happens to the resell value of American cars? They drop. What does this do to foreign cars? They get more sells, and this is why they can afford to sell their Toyotas and Hondas for half the price in America. This is why the best car companies are not American.

DO Americans always want the cheapest? No. I know folks who have American pride and stick to American cars, American phones, and American everything.

Why would they not let Nokia play big boy in America? It goes back, way back when America thought it was the best.

China will rule very soon. Enter Walmart, exit Kmart.
 
sounds like nokia is confident that this "iphone" wont affect sales

apple is stabbing themselves in the foot by charging so high and exclusively from cingular
 
considering that only 7.7 percent of mobile users in the uk subscribe to 3g services, i would hardly call it mainstream. (look it up)
lol.....if the US is so terrible then why the hell does the rest of the world migrate here? jeez....
 
In the N75 thread, IHAP noticed and pointed out the irony of the opening statement, "We're surprised it's not 3G."

My response:

OMG THANK YOU!! I read that and my jaw physically dropped. The company who is at an event in the United States and decides to drop two 3G devices, only with the wrong bands, criticizing another company for completely leaving it out. Honestly, I'd rather not have it at all than to have it teasing me in the menus.

I can't believe no one else seems to be bothered by the fact that Nokia only announced 2 s60 devices, neither of which really do Americans any good that other phones on the market don't do.
 
iphone really is good looking... but that's just about it...

on apples website, they are saying that they are reinventing the phone (cellphone, that is)... probably others have said this already, there is nothing really new with the iphone except the UI concept which btw, nokia, se and moto have been toying with that hand-navigation TS for a very long time now...

i didnt even read if there is voice dial via BT, is there???

txt to speach has been there for quite sometime now...

samsung even have a 10GB phone now...

2MP cam, even N91 has 2MP...


jobs and apple is doing what they do best, create a hype... marketing, marketing, marketing... thats all...
 
the us is not terrible (well to a degree...maybe?), but the US cellphone market is indeed terrible. I mean...nextel?! try selling that in hong kong
 
let's face it guys. the iphone is super-sleek looking and has got all the specs that one needs. it is true n95 will have a 5mp cam and gps but phone cams are always crappy and we all know this. whoever wants good pictures, just buys a 5mp cyber shot or canon for $250. GPS is no deal-braker for me and I believe for most people. the only thing is 3G and video call. I had n80 for more than half a year now and have not had the chance to video call anyone yet just because most of the people i talk to don't have such phones ( with 3g video calling ) or those who have did not care to switch to UMTS cause they don't know how. not to mention that the iphone has got a huge touchscreen, super sleek interface, and this super cool accelerometer thing. i was going for the n95... not any more i think
 
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