all TOUCHy..feely!. . .Nokia will unveil touch screen phone next week. . .

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. . .everything is touch this. . .touch that. . .


Nokia to unveil touch-screen phone next week

. . .The world's top cellphone maker Nokia will unveil its first touch-screen phone at a media and analyst event in London next week, two industry sources told Reuters on Friday. . .

. . ."The phone is extremely important. We have been waiting for the market leader to respond to iPhone for a year and a half now. There is a lot of pressure on Nokia," said Carolina Milanesi, analyst at Gartner. . .


can't TOUCH this. . .?

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Another clownish imitator, hoping to fool the naive...

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Is that the phone that Nokia put together a little web teaser for maybe a year ago, where the thing looked and acted virtually identically to an iPhone? Vaporlicious.

I have no faith in Nokia to put together remotely useable software or UI. Prove me wrong.

And does Nokia have any plans to more aggressively price their smartphones in the US? Despite their ad campaign from last year, N95s have typically been expensive as hell in the US and therefore rarely seen in the wild. I'm now seeing almost as many iPhones as Blackberries these days.

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Silencio wrote:
I'm now seeing almost as many iPhones as Blackberries these days.

Yep, and maybe now RIM will learn to cool the bluster and pretense:

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