Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed - Winston Churchill
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Nokia releases 'Iphone Killer' prices
NOKIA has released prices for its two smartphones which it has been touting in the press as its 'Iphone killers'.
The Nokia N900 and Nokia N97 Mini are now available for pre-order from the Nokia online shop.
They are being flogged SIM-Free for £429 for the Nokia N97 Mini and £499 for the Nokia N900 Internet tablet. Officially they will ship later this year.
According to Nokia the N900 delivers a PC-like experience in a handset-sized device. Basically it is a 3.5-inch touchscreen device that has 32GB of memory and even a 5-megapixel Carl Zeiss camera.
It is powered by the new Maemo 5 software that enables the user to have lots of applications windows open and make the occasional telephone call.
It has a touch screen and a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard for when the touch screen gets too taxing. The touch screen is why it has been mentioned as a rival to the Apple device.
The Nokia N97 Mini is smaller than the the Nokia N97 but has stainless steel detailing, a tilting 3.2-inch touch screen display, a QWERTY keyboard and a fully customisable homescreen.µ
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I hope Nokia lives up to these words cause the iphone was the biggest load of crap ever my old N95 whooped its ass.
Cant use your own ringtones you need to buy them from the itune store even if you have the original cd with the song on it you whant to use. cant bluetooth, cant mms, its got a shitty camera. and every time i updated my phone ut froze so i were without a phone for a few days.
Common Nokia You Can Do It!
Only time will tell if it is an 'iphone killer' or not. For now I'll just say it surpasses the iphone in many ways :
- Desktop-like experience
- Impressive camera.
- Debian based.
- VERY HIGH resolution for a phone, 800x480 is really something, mainly if you want to browse the web comfortably.
- Well designed multitasking.
- Great interface.
- Open Source
- Firefox is supported and a port of OpenOffice seems to be planed also.
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For me it deserves every penny of his current pricing.
The [overrated] App store is not really a feature by the way, who would want to pay for 'farting apps'? If people are dumb enough to pay for useless apps, good for them and good for Apple, I prefer free apps (that would also be ad supported ones actually) myself.
"iPhone killer", a true journalistic linguistic tic.
They don't care Nokia, with the n900, is redefining the notion of mobile device with this fabulous OS linked with the excellent OMAP3 (found also on the Pre and iPhone).
I'm impatient to see if Firefox mobile is able to plug Gears from Google (the plugin management is present, but on the beta2, you can't charge any plugin. Just "URL fixer" installed by default).
If so, it would be really a premiere on a smartphone: the use of disconnected mode for online applications...
I'm impatient to try this amazing open and truly original product and I hope it is the first of a long and successful serie!
It's a discrete and so attractive innovation. What shines isn't always the most interesting and useful!
...especially regarding the substantially higher spec'd hardware, and proper desktop OS (Debian Linux).
Business phones don't have such rich multimedia and social notworking capabilities.
Nokia doesn't decide for you which apps you are allowed to install.
And any music can be drag'n'dropped from any OS - no extra bloatware required.
Nokia has answer to APP store:
http://www.ovi.com/services/
Was the tag line chosen as a publicity stunt. Not in my dreams can I imagine any product to be "iphone killer" so soon .To Kill the product also needs to beat the APP store . How do you think nokia would do that ?
I'd like to see one comment by Nokia where they have said that these devices are its 'iPhone killers'.
Otherwise this article is just another stupid rant trying to get some sort of fight between devices.
Nokia has said that it is on offensive against companies like Apple. That has nothing to do with 'iPhone killers'.
I assume you have assigned the "iPhone killer" tag to these models so you can laugh with glee when they don't measure up against it?
The N900 is a business phone, a completely different market to the iPhone.
The N97 mini is a cut down N97 to help it get onto the cheaper tariffs, although with the original N97 already available for £0 on £35 a month tariffs I'm not sure of the point.