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timwatt	2010-06-07 , 21:51
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Originally Posted by orcocan

one thing nokia needs to learn from Apple is marketing

tomorrow joe bloggs on the street will talk to his friends and say "oh did you see that now with the new icraphone you can do video calls, that's so cool!"

nobody knows that N900 (and many others) can already do that, over wifi and 3g

there's plenty of people out there who think that apple invented smartphones and then everybody else started copying them...!!!

Agree on the marketing but hey with the apple video calls you can flip from back to the front camera (thats cool), I could use this for work and family calls. no other phone can do that!

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Freemantle	2010-06-07 , 21:58
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Originally Posted by qw3rty

And only iPhone 4 to iPhone 4... Major fail there as far as I'm concerned.

the video calling isn't really a biggie. It's been around at least since 2003, and never really taken off.

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	PradaBrada	2010-06-07 , 22:00
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Originally Posted by Freemantle

the video calling isn't really a biggie. It's been around at least since 2003, and never really taken off.

Same can be said about alot of things, Apple will however take it and do it right, which is when the others will try to imitate and improve it again

Also lets face it, phones from 2003 weren't technologically capable enough for video-calling, Snapdragon, A4 and Cortex phones today are

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Freemantle	2010-06-07 , 22:01
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Originally Posted by kojacker

Hmm.. I didnt think three or t-mobile had, that's interesting..

you're right 3 don't. T-Mobile may have now, seeing as they've linked up with orange.

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	Dave999	2010-06-07 , 22:01
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I can already see what will be the main feature for Iphone 5. You will only be able to call to other iphones. All the bad apples will cheer while apple takes away their freedom.

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quipper8	2010-06-07 , 22:02
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Originally Posted by nosa101

Sometimes I wonder why Nokia can't makke that one phone and then call it a day. I understand the need to satisfy various markets but why must there be multiple "flagships".

Why can't one device have the best camera, OS, processor, design and whatnot that Nokia has to offer.

and why doesnt ford just make one model of car and levis only one style of jeans

geez, just think about it for a minute.

nokia is way bigger than just the midrange american smartphone market just like ford is way bigger than the american midsize sedan market.

do you really think nokia would make more money if they only made one phone?

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Kingsley	2010-06-07 , 22:02
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Can i vote for how important freedom and openess are.. as apposed to appstores and ecosystems?

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	imperiallight	2010-06-07 , 22:06
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On the three network in the UK in 2003, video calls over 3g were the same value as voice calls for the introductory first year. I had 900 mins a month of these and it worked fine.

It was pretty good and I used it a bit but many times you didn't want people to know where you were (people will force you to use it if they know you have it)!! And then they charged extra for the service and I didn't really miss it.

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	Benson	2010-06-07 , 22:08
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Originally Posted by ysss

What's interesting about the screen is that I think apple will make use of it to enhance readability and media definition within the comfortable ergonomics envelope while retaining high aesthetic standards. (Yeah, that's RDF talk probably.) not just to cram desktop apps on small screen.

I think Apple will use it mainly (at first, anyway) to pixel-double existing apps that are hard-coded to HVGA. (Which makes me wonder if they use straight pixel doubling, or something like 2×SaI.)

Funny thing is, they'd have probably been content with WVGA like everyone else otherwise -- odd that a loathsome combination of decisions (pathetic resolution, strongly resolution-dependent design) ultimately pushed them to introduce a better screen than everyone else.

But FWIW, I want that screen in a Meego phone so I can cram bigger desktop apps into it.