02/05/2007, 12:25pm, EST
Monday, February 5th
Nokia: iPhone will stimulate market
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But about the article - I agree it's the first time I've seen the visual voicemail on a mobile device_ I have been bitching for years now that my mobile company won't allow for a way to permanently store my voice mail_ Or skip over 'new' message I don't care about at the moment_
Another thing about the iPhone - is that other than a couple of PDA's or phone/PDA combo that have been hacked by Linux gurus - this is also the first handheld mobile phone or device that I've seen that runs a FULL Desktop Level implementation of an Operating System_ OS X_ They did not say it was a mobile or slimmed down version of OS X_
That is kind of a big deal_ I could potentially run Photoshop and Final Cut on this bad boy_
Like the Mac GUI it is not revolutionary in it's idea - we all know this has been knocking around for a while in labs, and seen in sci-fi films - but just a mobile video phones were seen in sci-fi films in the 60s, the point is in delivering it. And no one out there has delivered anything with the graphical slickness Apple have shown.
But overall, I think he's right - it is growing to drive the mobile market. The feature set of phones has really become stagnant - there's nothing out there that makes me want to replace my RAZR with something larger, for instance. If someone else can deliver something like the iPhone without the network tie-in, then I might seriously be tempted - I'm not a complete Apple fanboy.
However, I think the cellphone companies are too dependent on third-parties (from their chip-design to their bought-in operating systems) to be able to deliver anything similar within the next 36 months.
Of course, given that so many people can't tell touch-screen from gestural, that may not be an issue.
Is this the same Samsung that has no traction against the iPod in the music player market? Fool you once, shame on Apple. Fool you twice... time to get a new senior vice president.