Thread: Where is Nokia - no announcement no product - still in hibernation
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2009-01-09 , 18:53
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#87
Originally Posted by sachin007 View Post
That brings me to the question:

Why did nokia think that touchscreen phones were not the right thing of the future? I mean the 7710 was a good phone with a great screen at that point..... why did they chose to close down the touchscreen series? I mean it was so obvious that touch was going to be the future. Apple just came in and it became the inventor of everything!
Well, 7710 was ... I tried using one as my phone for a weekend. I wouldn't call it a good phone. It was on many levels ahead of its time. But the same as I wouldn't call the Apple Newton a good PDA. They were advanced for their time period, but ... I would say that something is a good device if I can give it to my girlfriend and she would use it happily, and those devices would not pass her test.

Hindsight is 20/20, but at the time when Series 90 got merged with S60, it wasn't really generally obvious that touch would rule. PDA:s had had touch screens for a long time and they never really picked up. Then again, at the same time when this was happening the organisation behind Maemo was starting to function.