Nokia's iPhone, No Seriously

Several readers have written to tell us that Engadget has a look at Nokia's visions for the future. "It was presented during Nokia's GoPlay event this morning as a glimpse into the future of Nokia interface design. Oh, and it's due out next year. When pressed during the Q&A about the striking similarity to the little Cupertino device, Anssi Vanjoki — Nokia's Executive VP & General Manager of Multimedia — said, 'If there is something good in the world then we copy with pride.' Well, ok then."

This is S60 4.0

[Eugenia Loli]

This will be based on Symbian's S60 4.0 new version btw, not Linux. It's just the evolution of their S60 smartphone platform.

But it's not OpenMoko!

[WamBamBoozle]

I'm just waiting for OpenMoko [slashdot.org] to finish their beta.

Re:Turn it on its head

[nine-times]

Noah Wylie, while playing Steve Jobs said that "good artists copy, great artists steal"

That quote is stolen from Picasso, I believe.

Re:Can't anyone see it's a joke/hoax?

[bob_dinosaur]

It's no hoax.

Nokia had a huge launch event in London on the 29th to announce a US 3G version of the N95, the N81, the new version of the N-Gage platform, the Ovi brand (maps, games, & other services), as well as to demonstrate the touchscreen S60 interface mentioned in this article.

Re:Can't anyone see it's a joke/hoax?

[Nazlfrag]

No, this is legit, it's coming from the London GoPlay launch event. There's a pic of it from a live blog here [thenokiablog.com].

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Phone interface

[Enderandrew]

I agree. My favorite interface for a phone seemingly died ages ago, though I hear iPods offer it. I miss the jog-dial. With it, I could easily operate my phone with my left hand while doing something else. I really love my Samsung slider, though I wish the buttons offered even more in the way of tactile feedback. For instance some phones have tiny ridges on some of the numeric keys to act almost as home-keys, so it is easier to avoid mis-dialing a phone number when you're not looking.

Re:This is S60 4.0

[pyrrhonist]

Because Apple were categorically the first company ever to release a pocket device with a touchscreen.

Actually, the Casio PB-1000 was the first to have this feature in 1987.

Apple also had competition in the PDA market when it first introduced the Newton in 1993. The Casio Z-7000 "Zoomer"/Tandy Z-PDA were introduced a couple months later. These devices also featured a touch screen with handwriting recognition.

Re:This is S60 4.0

[Yetihehe]

Please, read parent carefully: "Companies like Palm who made small touchscreen devices, looked into the future, predicted the iPhone and copied the concept years before Apple did it first". So is this still +5 insightfull, or rather +5 funny?

Re:Turn it on its head

[gkndivebum]

Actually, the quote is from Igor Stravinsky. See http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Igor_Stravinsky [wikiquote.org]

Re:The Newton Irony

[edwinolson]

The page below provides evidence that "standing on the shoulder of giants" was a common turn of phrase since the 12th century. Newton's variant is particularly pithy, and was indeed in a letter to Hooke, but I don't see any reason to think that he was mocking Hooke.

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/q0162 b.shtml [aerospaceweb.org]