NTT DoCoMo did offer their own range of Symbian phones though, until Elop... well you know.

Now of course they've changed to Android.


I really don't know what it is that Apple have at the moment, I think it's something intangible. When you see those queues of people camping overnight outside the Apple stores when a new product is released and then whooping and cheering when the staff appear in the morning and strut up and down the line waving their arms in the air, it's absolutely bizarre.

It's really quite interesting to watch, it must be some weird kind of hysteria.

I certainly don't think it's something NOKIA could recreate. I think Samsung's success is built on something much more concrete and reproducable.