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Russell Beattie on Nokia and Apple: Who Approached Whom?
Today on his excellent blog, Russell Beattie thinks aloud about the recent news that Nokia would be getting a browser based on Apple's Safari OSS: "What if it was actually Apple who approached Nokia about creating a new web browser based on their Safari OSS technology? Hey, now we have something for gossip, no? The situation then is that Apple has learned from past mistakes of relying on Motorola too tightly (think CPUs) and is looking around for other top-tier manufacturers to help them with their vision of the perfect mobile companion to OSX: the proverbial and mythical iPhone."
This is total speculation, but it is fun speculation. Beattie goes on to speculate that "the entire phone UI could be done on top of the browser. Super compelling UI with super easy to create apps which run on Apple and Nokia branded phones." What do you think? Is this the first sign of the fabled iPhone to rival the iTunes support of the supposedly coming-forth-any-day-now Motorola iPhone, or merely another red herring?
Note: the pic in this post is not an actual iPhone.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Michael Katz said 1:59PM on 6-17-2005
I truthfully had always hoped that it would be Nokia or SE that made the iPhone, because they make much better products, more stable, and durable, with a better operating system behind the phones. If they do create the iPhone, that would be my dream come true. I would buy it in an instant, because it's an apple and a nokia. I do see the N91 as a potential predecessor for the iPhone since it has the 4gb hard drive built into it which would be useful in many ways, and is a true music phone.
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Iso Grifo said 2:58PM on 6-17-2005
I think these artist renditions have it all wrong (see this image for reference: http://grinitch.com/iPhone.jpg).
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narco said 7:20PM on 6-17-2005
I really do hope something comes of this. The only gadget I own that I've never been happy with is my cell phone. I've gone through about 15 in the past few years, mostly because I tire of them or they're just so frustrating and cheap. Out of all the phone operating systems, I think Nokia has the best, Motorola the worst -- which is why I was kind of pissed that they were supposed to release the iTunes phone.
I also dig the Sony Ericsson products as well, but I'm pretty set on buying a flip phone rather than a "candy bar" style one. I hate when you are bad mouthing someone and you accidentally call someone by accident -- has happened much too often.
Fishes,
narco.
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_victor said 9:12PM on 6-17-2005
narco, the fix is to only speak well of others at all times.
Another interesting (to me anyway) spin on this: .Mac services for the Nokia web tablet coming out. Why? Imagine being able to use a very small tablet PC as a sort of mini-hub. Using .Mac, WebDAV, and a local cache of some sort (big enough for temporary file storage), you could essentially do a lot of work on this thing-- and your data is wherever you have a network connection...
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Michael Katz said 9:39PM on 6-17-2005
Narco, your problem, can be EASILY fixed, just lock the keys, I'm pretty sure that SE and Nokia's now have automatic keylock, which thus locks the keys preventing errant calls. But I still prefer victor's solution that you shouldn't talk bad about others
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David L. said 9:49PM on 6-17-2005
I personally think Russel's speculation is acutally valid because Nokia has never really shown any interest in supporting Mac product. I personally have NOkia 9300, and there was never a sync program for Mac from Nokia (only PC Suite). For a company that have never done anything in the past to support this parciular product, and now they are coproating together to create a brand new product..I highly believe it's Apple that appraoched Nokia :)
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narco said 10:47PM on 6-17-2005
It's not like I talk bad about friends, it's mostly about work or clients. That's an acceptable form of trash talking. And I am well aware of this "key locking" technology you speak of, but it doesn't work when someone calls you and you accidentally hit the 'answer' button when you pull the phone out of your pocket to see who it is.
Fishe,s
narco.
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Macbeb said 2:36AM on 6-18-2005
Apple + Nokia = the ideal deal ... still dreaming, still dreaming ... tactac tactac tactac ...
They will made a smartphone and a new kind of "tablet Mac"/Personnal media player ... still dreaming, still dreaming ... tactac tactac tactac ...
And what about including Nintendo in the adventure , A nice smartphone has to include some nice game fetaures also ... still dreaming, still dreaming ... tactac tactac tactac ...
And after that, the final deal with sony for perfect integration with A?/Nintendog ... still dreaming,, still dreaminng ... tactac tactac tactac
Woaw, I need a coffee to really leave this dream.
Thanks for youre site, that help me waking up in a smooth mood.
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Virtuous said 4:30PM on 6-19-2005
Hope Nokia does a better job with the N91 than Palm did with the Lifedrive.
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