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Found Footage: iPhone.. by Nokia?


Our sister blog Engadget is crazy about all things gadgety, which is why they covered the boatload of Nokia announcements today. Those announcements included the phone in the video above. Look a little familiar to anyone? Now, I'm not usually one to accuse companies of copying Apple, product development is a long process and different paths can lead to the same destination. That being said, when questioned during the press event about how this phone looks a little like the iPhone (i.e. exactly like it) Nokia's Exec VP said, "If there is something good in the world then we copy with pride."

At least they are honest.

This phone should be available sometime next year, unless Apple Legal stops it.

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jonathan ober

If my eyes are deceiving me...that strap is from the Nintendo Wii remote. It's one of the new ones that they are packaging with the Remotes. So, there are two companies they stole from.

August 30 2007 at 7:41 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dan.hutch

quote: Nokia could NEVER compete with Apple. Not even in their wildest dreams.

You forget that Nokia did to mobile phones in the 90s what Apple did with portable music players in the 00s.

August 30 2007 at 4:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dan.hutch

Maybe Nokia's thinking is to release this in Europe where Apple have yet to release the iPhone, I think Apple's practice of giving one provider a monopoly may even give Nokia the upperhand in a court case if their phone were available on multiple networks and before the iPhone in Europe.

August 30 2007 at 4:17 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ben the Dog

Much as I would love an iPhone, Apple have decided that a) it won't reach me in HK until Spring 2008 (despite being made only a few hundred km from where I live!), and b) it will most likely be locked into a carrier which I may or may not already be with.

If Nokia can come up with something as good (and then if hackers can emulate the Mac OS), then I'll head that way. I would of course prefer an iPhone, but if Apple continue to make it next to impossible for a non-USA non-AT&T user to use their hardware, then it doesn't leave some of us with a lot of choice, does it?

With a bit of luck, the competition will force SJ to pull his head out of his proverbial and sell the iPhone under less draconian conditions.

August 29 2007 at 11:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
krye

I hope Apple sues their ass off

August 29 2007 at 8:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
R Muffet

Oooh, sexy voice!

I'd take her promoting the iPhone over Apple's black shirt man any day.

Apple, please hire sexy voice lady to tell me I can use iPhone to buy calamari.

Nokia, nice try, but a touch screen and copying a few gestures does not an entire rethink of phone interfaces make.

Erica, please hack an "Upload to Flickr" option by Sunday. Thanks!

August 29 2007 at 8:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mitch Cerroni

Is it just me or is this a private video I can't see?

August 29 2007 at 5:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Fernando

@ Jonathan Dann

My N95 syncs with itunes, iphoto and ical/adress book via this Nokia Multimedia Transfer app

@ Adrian

It was a concept showed during Olli-Pekka's keynote, is not the first time Nokia does that, last year they showed a video showing other touchscreen concept (before the iphone mind you)

and @ all

It's just business, everybody copies from everybody.

August 29 2007 at 5:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
XESpawn

Good Grief!

It's a publicity stunt, get it???

It's not real.

Since when is a YouTube video a reliable source? Check Nokia's websites. Check their official press releases. Check their new product announcements.

Nada, zip, zero, null, nill, nothing, theoretical vacuum.

It was a STUNT. That's it.

August 29 2007 at 3:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jonathan Dann

It seems to me like no-one will be able to beat apple at the simplicity. No-one else will integrate so well with other product, and when you buy apple stuff its not just the item you buy, its the knowledge that you won't have a new piece of awful control software on your computer. You know that the updates will be regular and seamless.

Even if the Nokia is better, it won't sync to iTunes, which is the best Media centre out there IMO, and most likely it won't run on my Mac.

Apple do it well, thanks to the versatility of OSX, the iPhone might not be perfect, but I'm going to get one so I don't have to manually sync calendars etc... Its not just about the hardware, its about the whole experience, which Apple capture.

August 29 2007 at 3:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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