Nokia’s long rumoured iPhone-beater was revealed during a presentation at the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference in California.
The phone will - as expected - have a touchscreen interface, but Nokia were keeping quiet about the other features.
In theory, it should be relatively simple to build a better iPhone. If you consider the component parts, the iPhone is a pretty mediocre phone with an exceptionally shiny screen and a novel input method. In theory, you should be able to get a better camera, make the OS user-modifiable and you could steal Apple’s lunch money.
In theory.
Unfortunately, as LG has discovered, just because you have a technically superior phone in many respects, you wont necessarily be able to reproduce that combination of slick interface and brand power that has made the iPhone a winner.
Still, it’s clear that Nokia are going to give this the old school try. When asked if Noia could match Apple’s 4 million shipped units, Nokia Forum VP Tom Libretto calmly replied that “We’ve done that since we’ve had dinner on Friday.”
Going by the faintly ludicrous codename ‘Tube’, the new handset certainly looks extremely iPhone-like. Time will tell if it can capture the imagination of the pubic in the way that it’s rival has.
Time will tell if it can capture the imagination of the PUBIC in the way that it’s rival has.
funny typo