The iPhone design ripple effect
After Apple’s iPhone received rave reviews last year, developers at Nokia and Research In Motion must have been told to go back to the drawing board.
That’s the only conclusion one can draw after reading reports of the company’s forthcoming smartphones.
Nokia’s Tube, pre-announced earlier today, bears a striking resemblance to the iPhone and incorporates its touch features. One major difference; the Tube will have Java built in to the device so users can run a variety of applications that may not run on the iPhone.
Nokia, which hasn’t set a price for the Tube or a release date, is calling it the company’s first “touch device.”
As for RIM, the 9000 series not coincidentally has iPhone-like curves, and a completely revamped user interface. The cramped menu and cartoon-like icons are gone in the 9000 series of devices apparently.
Net result? The BlackBerry 9000 series looks pretty damn good. If it works as well as the Curve, it’ll be a killer consumer device.
Remember, RIM’s now going trying to grab a great number of consumers - the 9000 will help its cause with the oh-so fickle and fashion-conscious group.
While Nokia vice-president Tom Libretto dismissed Apple’s impact on the smartphone industry, saying the company ships Apple’s entire user base (e.g. 5 to 6 million phones) in a weekend. But Apple’s impact on the smartphone market is undeniable; the evidence will soon be found in the Tube and the BlackBerry 9000 series.
Now if we could only have those devices made available in Canada.
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It sure took Nokia awhile before they finally realised they needed to implement a touch screen. But there have been many iPhone look-alikes, like the HTC touch, and even though the iPhone has been around forever, they still don’t touch it. Best wishes to Nokia all the same, a little competition can’t hurt.
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