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Latest Comments

meh

Step 1) Take kick ass existing product

Step 2) Fuck it up

Step 3) ???

Step 4) Profit

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Soooo...

Nokia's entry in the "iPhone killer" catagory is...

A BAD IPHONE CLONE!!!

N95/96 lovers, whatever....

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I like it...

but, they need to refine the GUI some more. As it is, it's like they've just migrated the old "point and click" paradigm to a touch interface. In other words, it's a bolt-on.

While this is fine, for now, other manufacturers have already surpassed this with multi-touch gesturing - Apple, HTC and Palm come to mind. And, if Nokia really wants to be a leader, then they'll need to either get on board with this new paradigm, and refine it. Or, invent sometime else that surpasses it. I'd personally like to see them do the latter.

What I'd really like to see is something that moves beyond touch screen altogether. Instead of actually having to touch the screen - messy, in my opinion - why not enable users to just gesture above it? Perhaps an under screen camera and proximity sensors could accomplish this.

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He said meg

He meant gig. It's a mistake you twats.

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uhm...

32MB + 16GB = 48GB ???

srfvwrtgvwdefvsduygvcsdgjvcwdeuygvf makes about as much friggin sense!!!

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