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Re: iPod Touch (threads merged)

http://www.lucafiligheddu.com/2007/0...okia-n800.html

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Future = Google Phone // Asus Eee PC 701 // New iPhone 2008 // and others comes -
more cheaply and also innovatively - Nokia N800 - the projection/lead goes too end - unfortunately

http://www.viddler.com/explore/atmasphere/videos/53/

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Originally Posted by dlhuss (Post 73546)

Just curious, how much is there to steal?

BTW, I actually saw an N800 in a store yesterday on the end of the mobile phone shelf at a major electronic retailer in Berlin. I can't imagine they'd ever sell one of them at that store. Everybody was looking at all the mobile phones / smart phones. Who's going to pick up this giant Nokia and look at it? I can hear it now, "What? I can't make a call?"

Regardless of Apple's size (almost as much annual profit as Nokia and at least triple Sony's), I think it's fair to say the N800 won't steal any significant sales from the iPod Touch. People will go to the store looking for the iPod touch, not the other way around.

Edit: Actually I just got your point. Those looking for the features of the N800 will buy it and not the iPod touch. That goes back to my first question.

You mean Saturn at Alexanderplatz? They also had the 770 and this was my introduction to these devices. Maybe I was the only person who ever bought a NIT there...

The UI Millhouse linked to is needed yesterday - it's (presumably customizable) different appearances would appeal to the fanboys and also to the apple-type user - obviously it's not a simple case of cosmetics but surely canola (which is what, a year old now?) showed the premise worked and really, we all know that however many man-hours something takes can be shortened in timescale by more money for more men (and women)!

And I agree with everyone else who says so - we need concrete information about developments that are ahead - hell, apple don't seem to be too worried about announcing things way up front, why are nokia so cagey? Is this forum really a hotbed of industrial spying? :D

For everyone who wants sales figures for 700/800, how about simply checking the membership numbers of this forum?

I've had both models from almost day one, live in the UK, travel around Europe and have not met one single person who has one or even knew what it was/that it existed. I saw it on sale in Singapore a couple of weeks back, again, no big deal, just an ugly big thing tacked on the end of shelves of great looking phones.

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Originally Posted by Texrat (Post 73571)

Some of us truly appreciate the retro industrial design of the N800. And the faceplate is metal (although you might be referring to the 770). And if you don't like the looks of the N800... well... turn a blind eye to successors... :p

I'm not a Texrat knocker by any means - I reckon he is a genuine enthusiast, you can't deny it. But comments like this really do come across as some kind of internet street-teaming thing, (we get it a lot in the music industry) it's a bit like "you think x's new track is good, just wait 'til you hear y's". It's beginning to grate on me, these hints of "if only you've seen what I've seen" just give me the mental picture of a blind-sided nokia R&D team frantically back-engineering the latest apple product :eek:

Like most people, I only have so much "disposable income (it's called a credit card!). I bought the 800 the very first moment I could. Even if i knew it was three months, six months off, but I knew what the "successors" were, it would make an impact on my future buying plans.

Time for Nokia to finally listen to the limited buyer-base it has got for NITs or lose out I think.

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Originally Posted by gammer (Post 73627)

You mean Saturn at Alexanderplatz?..

actually...ja!

wow, small world

Re: iPod Touch (threads merged)

iPod Touch will be excellent device, especially with third party application, which hopefully appear soon thanks to programmers working on iPhone soft. Even lack of BT or mike shouldn't be a problem - they're availlable as extra add-ons for regular iPods already - that's a matter of time when they'll come dedicated for iPod touch I think

Re: iPod Touch (threads merged)

nice, going to order a 16gb one.

Re: iPod touch - not bad

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Originally Posted by Milhouse (Post 73563)

I'll ask Reggie to change it something more appropriate.

(Nearly there...)

Hey Administrators! Let this guy **ss into some sort of pot and do him a dope test. He is doping his post amount! :D

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Originally Posted by Milhouse (Post 73567)

for instance if this UI is possible or likely to appear on NITs in a future update (I'm guessing it's possible but that's all it is - a guess).

It is based on Hildon so I really *hope* we will have it on future releases. I dream about it every night ;) jokes apart, I would really like to be able to use the stylus less and my fingers more, and to have a real_(or_almost)_desktop with icons and whatever or a launcher (though I'm using simple launcher but I'd like it to be more customizable).

UI is definitely the part where N800 lacks more at this moment (and, yes, I don't complain about its design :rolleyes: )

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Originally Posted by flareup (Post 73628)

Your perception couldn't be more offbase.

Enthusiast? Yes. Blind??? By no means. I am well aware of the tablets' shortcomings and Nokia's missteps, and have acknowledged them over and over again in this forum.

If you want to find blind devotees, look at the rabid Apple fans (a little irony there). If you want more objectivity, pay closer attention to what I write, and try not to apply too much bias.

And I'm sorry if the hints grate on you. Based on the feedback I've received, you're in the minority, and I tend not to pander there. As I've told the few hardcore malcontents here (not saying you are one), if anyone has any trouble with me or what I write, the Ignore feature works very well.

Oh, and I'm nowhere near R&D... unfortunately.