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- kiensoy, on 12/09/2008, -2/+18It is you.
- yacinebouatrous, on 12/09/2008, -5/+14some people really think that apple invented the the touhscreen phone, well they didn't, they've been around for 1000 years, mostly used in the U.K and Asia. Seriously apple didn't invent it, they just made it more popular, cuz of their design skills
- FI5HERMAN, on 12/09/2008, -5/+13You can't knock Nokia, they always perform!!!
- splinteredmind, on 12/09/2008, -0/+8Interesting, looks like a mix of the Prada and iPhone (similar messaging bubbles, 'multiple home screens'). I still think Symbian is the downfall of most Nokia's these days - but the alternatives arent that great (WinMo, Andrioid - yet).
- replaysMike, on 12/08/2008, -3/+10replace Mysterious with more of the same.
- bluemist, on 12/09/2008, -1/+7Still a concept maybe but I'm loving the almost-no-bezel design.
- lurrker, on 12/09/2008, -1/+6Probably the reason the iphone has mediocre resolution, thanks, never considered that.
- banthis, on 12/09/2008, -1/+6SIDEKICK!
- liquisoft, on 12/09/2008, -0/+4I hope they do this one really well.
A lot of touchscreens have come out since the iPhone began gaining momentum, and the good majority of them suck. I suspect a lot of the poor technology is mostly due to rushed timelines, but I digress. If this Nokia phone ends up being completely awesome, it'll certainly be welcome competition to the iPhone. As everybody knows, competition is the driving force behind innovation. - DBreeze, on 12/09/2008, -2/+6to the apple fanboy any new smart phone is an imitation of the iphone. dumbasses
- SteveMax, on 12/09/2008, -0/+3@superkendall
You can program for S60 on any OS. You can use Symbian/C++, POSIX C/C++, Python, Zsh, Java, pure ARM ASM, Javascript, WMLScript and OPL; you probably don't have to train your developers in a new language.
You can only program for the iPhone on OSX, and only using ObjectiveC/C++, which is probably a new language for most of your developers.
S60 offers a wide variety of devices and a 10x bigger userbase.
On S60 you can program any type of application; the Symbian foundation won't disallow your application because it "offers duplicate capabilities and could confuse the customers" (or because it competes with an application they did).
You could say that YOU believe the App Store is a benefit that overwhelms all of those reasons; but you can't say that S60 offers "nothing" over the iPhone. It's all about a trade-off. - lurrker, on 12/09/2008, -0/+3I'm not saying the general interface is better, but on wm pocket pc's, Opera mini scrolls very nicely. The whole UI doesn't, but some software does. On the internet tablets from Nokia, the scrolling is crap, but it's a lack of a function of the omap processor, actually lack of 2. One, Nokia never licensed the powervr portion of the chip for graphics rendering, which would enable that ability. If they had, they wouldn't have been able to go past 640x480, which wouldn't work right since the screen is 800x480. The recent TI OMAP 3430 series does has up to 1024x768 support, so anything is possible.
Their other option would be, put a real graphics chipset in, but that would reduce battery life, and cost a bit more, but for now, iphone has the edge, since they actually licensed powervr, and kept the resolution low.
PS: The Sega Dreamcast had powervr, or some variation thereof. - neckofjelly, on 12/09/2008, -0/+2Stalin sticks to film.
- skyshock1, on 12/09/2008, -0/+2Nokia still have over a 40% market share on the mobile phone market. RIM, Apple, and all the various WinMo phones are playing catch up.
- kbcool, on 12/09/2008, -4/+6At least Nokia makes phones that multitask oh and can run applications not found on the Apple store. Want me to keep going? There's a list as long as all the iPhones in the world lined up. Which of course is a lot shorter than all the Nokias in the world lined up.
- PinkyTheWinky, on 12/09/2008, -2/+4I am just about ready to shove an iPhone up someone's ass. This is an article about Nokia for *****'s sake. I bet you people go to the science articles and say: "volcanoes are cool, but iPhone is better". Just shut your ***** faces already.
Have fun digging me down because im right. - infectaphibian, on 12/09/2008, -0/+2Ugh, I hear about these days is phones.... When did everyone in the world turn into a teenage girl?
- hoodratthangs, on 12/09/2008, -3/+5Has anyone ever noticed that every time another touch screen phone comes out, the scrolling on it is really laggy? It's never smooth like the iPhone's.
- noahhoward, on 12/09/2008, -0/+2What the hell does that have to do with them looking very similar?
- TexasShiv, on 12/09/2008, -2/+4A touch screen phone?!?! How novel!
Oh man.. what is the phone called that everyone will compare this to... right on the tip of my tongue.. - inactive, on 12/09/2008, -1/+3Wha?
- skyshock1, on 12/09/2008, -0/+1The G1 does. It's because the iPhone and G1 both use OpenGL graphics acceleration.
- Nephersir7, on 12/10/2008, -0/+1the iphone? oh yeah, that LG prada knockoff...
- superkendall, on 12/09/2008, -3/+4I seriously doubt the Nokia platform has anything on the iPhone for applications at this point.
- thcobbs, on 12/09/2008, -3/+4So, you're saying they re-invented a better wheel?
- atma1008, on 12/10/2008, -0/+1We know now the iPhone is like a woman who looks hot and is a superstar in bed. This Nokia looks hot, but who knows how she is under the sheets (OS, software, etc)? Everyone wants virgins for sex, but I think we'll have to see how this Nokia pans out.
- TheBlueVulcan, on 12/09/2008, -3/+4Lost interest when I found it was a Resistive Touchscreen. Works okay for a stylus, but is crap for fingers.
- Murdats, on 12/09/2008, -1/+2a dark themed touchscreen phone, nope that never got done before the iphone came along.
- aryxza, on 12/10/2008, -0/+1interesting
- superkendall, on 12/09/2008, -1/+2It looks nice but I really think in the next few years the smartphone market is going to boil down to Android and the iPhone OS. Yes Nokia is a huge player, but not as much in the smartphone arena and they are going to get creamed there by rapid OS developments and apps from the other platforms.
Windows Mobile will hang on for some time, propped up by Microsoft but I do not think Microsoft is capable of breathing life back into it. - skyshock1, on 12/09/2008, -0/+1Maybe that will change after Symbian goes open source.
- inactive, on 12/09/2008, -1/+2About 6 years ago just about everyone and their dog either had a nokia or a motorola peanut phone. I would still have my peanut phone, but i tried destroying it. That phone still worked after running it over at 160km multiple times. It even worked after throwing it out of the windows at 160km. The second time i threw it out the windows the battery fell out and blew up, otherwise it would still work. Do that with your iPhone.
- yourbrokenoven, on 12/09/2008, -1/+2this article had a link in the upper right to another article which showed a picture of the Nokia n95 which i've heard about but had never seen. damn, the n95 is sexy. this "new" thing is kinda bland.
- Lemon, on 12/11/2008, -0/+1Ahem... G1?
- noahhoward, on 12/09/2008, -0/+1Looks nice but I've got a feeling this is another product of the 'users are about looks' mindset that has consumed the market lately. If this thing is just another candy-coated windows mobile, I don't want it. Windows mobile is a ***** user experience, it doesn't matter how pretty you make it on the surface. The sooner manufacturers realise this and move away to Google or some other new OS, the sooner we can have real competition again. For now this looks like another iPhone clone that misses the point.
- YodaJones, on 12/09/2008, -3/+3Every cell maker wishes they made the iPhone.
- shiftless, on 12/09/2008, -4/+4Hahahah. NOKIA. Sure.
- inactive, on 12/09/2008, -1/+1The scrolling on my instinct isnt laggy at all. The only thing i noticed with regard to the touching aspect was that the iphones "Drag to Turn off" animations and stuff were less jitter when holding in the same spot, or rolling the finger.
- ripple123, on 12/09/2008, -3/+3from now on im gonna call all phones that aren't the iphone "not iphones". and i have to say, this not iphone from nokia looks like a bit of a ripoff of the iphone...
- soupdawg30, on 12/09/2008, -4/+4Without a decent OS the phone will fail like all the other phones trying to be like the iPhone.
- noahhoward, on 12/09/2008, -1/+1... why? If I saw anyone else being retarded I wouldn't do it. Why should I follow your example?
- BobCFC, on 12/09/2008, -1/+1Lol, I have that wallpaper on my desktop when I use a dark theme. It was designed by -kol on deviant art for a PSP theme and he got requests to release a desktop version.
http://-kol.deviantart.com/art/Stream-of-Light-911 ...
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Wallpaper that I used on my PS3 and PSP themes.
Wallpaper sizes:
Widescreen
Fullscreen
iPhone version
PSP version
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These wallpapers are free for personal use. Distributing these images commercially or with any intent for monetary gains is prohibited.
(HOPE NOKIA GOT PERMISSION!)
Note Linux won't allow the - char in domain names because it violates DNS protocol (windows will happily process it lol). The solution is add an alias in the /etc/hosts file such as
8.10.77.140 -kol.deviantart.com
PM me if you can't figure it out and I'll upload you the wallpaper or something. - superkendall, on 12/09/2008, -3/+2Storm?
- yacinebouatrous, on 12/09/2008, -3/+2courtoisie of the supreme race of Nokia users, who wants a canadian blackberry anyway or a MOTOROLA razr stuff or worse than that an iPhone
- jrm125, on 12/09/2008, -5/+3I for one welcome our mediocre touch screen overlords.
- Commodus, on 12/09/2008, -2/+2Old news - that was posted on a few sites last week.
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