Nokia shows off 'Tube' iPhone-lookalike
The world's largest handset maker is starting to talk about its response to Apple's iPhone, almost 10 months since the iPhone made its debut.
Nokia showed off the Nokia Tube in a presentation slide noticed by Infoworld at a software development conference in California Monday. The Tube, like the iPhone, is a touch-screen phone that can be manipulated using your fingers, and is Nokia's "first touch device," according to Tom Libretto of Forum Nokia.
It's fair to say the iPhone forced just about every handset maker to take a second look at their product development lineup. HTC and LG have shown off their iPhone-lookalikes already, and more will probably start to appear over the rest of the year.
Nokia didn't provide a time frame for the launch of the Tube. Several Web sites have put up a grainy picture of a phone that purports to be the Tube, but I can't figure out who took the original image, so I'm not putting it here until we figure out if it's real, or if proper credit can be assigned. I can, however, show you what all the fuss is about through the magic of hyperlinking.
Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding world of Internet search, including Google, Yahoo, online advertising, and portals, as well as the evolution of mobile computing. He has written about traditional PC companies, chip manufacturers, and mobile computers, spending the last three years covering Apple. E-mail Tom. 
The web is searchable, after all.
So its candybar phone, all-screen, no buttons, in black...
Don't blame Cnet or the blogger for you're own laziness to read.
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... also be an iPod.
... be able to interpret multi-touch and motion-sensitive gestures as input.
... include a modern Unix OS, complete with with network stack, Open GL, MySQL, etc.
... offer free state-of-the-art development tools and APIs for third party developers.
... will include a high precision 3 axis accelerometer for gaming ... ala Wii portable.
... offer location services either via GPS or signal triangulation.
I hope so, at least to keep Apple on their toes.
But my prediction is that iPhone will soon dominate the smart phone market, and eventually smart phones will dominate the cell phone market.
many of them will be sued into oblivion. Apple has patents on
almost every useful technology the iPhone employs, and if history
is any indication Apple will protect their intellectual property with a
vengeance. That is why I'm long AAPL shares, and will remain so.
They have the lead, have the patents, and have the technology.
The iPhone is popular because it took existing technology and combined it in a way to make a sleek stylish device.
What the iPhone did was put them together nicely and make the phone useful which by itself is a huge step foward from the propritary kludge the wireless providers have forced on phone makers.
Everything the iPhone does well can be done with existing tech already on the market by others. I don't care if my interent is Opera Powered or Safari powered as long as it works well. I don't care if my MP3 player works like an iPod or a Sony as long as it works well.
Apply may sue, but they won't have much luck.
- The sad truth
- by Composer_1777 April 12, 2008 12:51 PM PDT
- The sad truth is: phone companies are so caught up in gimmicky ways to capture new markets that they completely ignored apple as a threat; All the while apple was silently waiting to go in for the kill...
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(18 Comments)It is very dissapointing that, we- the consumer have only one option for a large touch screen phone. SURE... we can talk about samsung, or HTC, sony, but in reality none of those companies are doing it right so-far. (I have high hopes for the Xperia X1 !!)
How hard is it to make one giant screen , apparently too hard for any company but apple.
Sad...