First Nseries Hands on Previews
<< My first reaction to these handsets is that it is very nice to see Nokia get its design mojo back. You combine these announcements with the 8800 and Nokia has completely revamped their high-end handset lineup. The N90 and N91 are big, but they are absolutely packed in terms of features. The N91 has a miniHD, WCDMA, stereo Bluetooth and WLAN....WOW! >>
Nokia sure did kick it up a notch. As for the N91 I say WOW! to. As for the launch itself trio I say WOW!
If Nokia isn't "Back" they are well on their way and the new terminal platform enabled by the high-level, real-time, Symbian OS v. 8.1a supported by Nokia's Symbian Series 60 2nd Edition Development Platform with Feature Pack 3 and the Nokia Series 60 UI is really something. I'm not sure any competitor has as solid a foundation and they certainly don't have the development community Nokia has.
Michael Oryl from Philadelphia's MobileBurn was in Amsterdam:
mobileburn.com
So was Jørgen Sundgot from InfoSync:
infosyncworld.com
As for Jørgen's appellation of "Nokia's N91, also known as Steve Jobs' wet dream," Ben Wood, analyst from Gartner has declared to the BBC that ...
"All phone producers dream of the music market, but going against Apple will be difficult, considering that iPod is already a standard. ... Nokia is saying that this device means users won't need a separate digital music player but there is always a compromise with converged devices. ... It is all very well to say camera phones are outselling digital cameras and MP3 players but people who buy them are not necessarily going to download music or take pictures."
news.bbc.co.uk
His point is well taken. Markets for both converged and stand-alone single purpose devices will certainly exist, but one only has to look at what impact smartphones have had on the PDA market to start to think about what 2.5G/3G/WLAN digital convergence has in store.
These are early converged devices. Imagine what will be on shelves for the 2007 holidays.
Best,
- Eric - |
