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N97 – competitive?

The N97 is Nokia’s latest “Yes, it will kill the iPhone” contender. After the really poor showing of the N96 in games performance (they decided, during the same year that the iPhone would come out with graphics hardware beating most handheld consoles, to leave out the graphics hardware accelerator in the N96), the N97 has a little bit of an expectation to beat. The phone itself has a neat pop-up screen that really reminds me of the old Psions and runs S60 (bleagh!) and you can tell the interface was derived from the latest system software for the N800 series of their Internet Tablets. The biggest issues I can see are going to be the chiclet keyboard and the choppiness of the UI and video playback in this demo video.

That, and the fact they show the phone doing everything except actually making a telephone call.

From a hardware point of view, it’s inoffensive. From a software point of view, they need to stop scrimping on CPUs and graphics hardware as it just looks slow, clunky and choppy.

Back to the drawing board, guys, you can do better.

Maemo now supports Twitter

Maemo now supports Twitter Still looks gawdawful. Especially compared to Twinkle, the latest of the iPhone Twitter apps: I still find it hard to justify breaking out my N800 when I have an iPhone. The UI is still like wading through molasses. Related posts: Nokia N800 versus iPod touch Google Calendar? 30 Boxes? Yahoo!? Entourage … Continue reading “Maemo now supports Twitter”

Maemo now supports Twitter

Still looks gawdawful. Especially compared to Twinkle, the latest of the iPhone Twitter apps:

I still find it hard to justify breaking out my N800 when I have an iPhone. The UI is still like wading through molasses.

1 million handsets? Big Deal.

Carlo Longino takes some issue with Apple’s recent PR trumpeting 1 million handsets sold in a weekend: “Just to let reality back in for a second: – Total Q1 handset sales: 282 million (from Strategy Analytics) – Nokia Q1 sales: 115.5 million (from Nokia PR), or roughly 1.28 million per day” I don’t think it’s … Continue reading “1 million handsets? Big Deal.”

Carlo Longino takes some issue with Apple’s recent PR trumpeting 1 million handsets sold in a weekend:

“Just to let reality back in for a second:
– Total Q1 handset sales: 282 million (from Strategy Analytics)
– Nokia Q1 sales: 115.5 million (from Nokia PR), or roughly 1.28 million per day”

I don’t think it’s fair to compare the iPhone to, for example, to the non-smartphone that I rented from O2 when my iPhone went in for repair.

We know the handset industry is going to be about 1 Billion this year. We also know that around 10% of these are smartphones which puts that market for 2008 to 100 million. Apple already has 6 million first generation iPhones out there and last weekend they just sold another million. Suddenly the comparison of a billion to a hundred million becomes relevant.

To be honest, with Nokia in such disarray with Symbian, Maemo and their home-grown non-smart phone operating systems and with RIM, HTC and a dozen other companies nipping at their smartphone marketshare, it is something that Nokia needs to take into account.

I know this. Nokia knows this. And yes, losing 1% of your market is just the start of it. As I said earlier today in “Save Your Business”, Nokia would be stupid to ignore changes in their marketplace.