2009-07-03
post/134757871
quote 13:53:00
“ Nokia offered mobile web access and apps long before the iPhone was dreamed about but it took Apple’s genius to make them user-friendly and, more important, to break the resistance of telcos to “unlimited data” packages. ”
Obvious, but worth restating. From Nokia’s N97 brings a clash of two cultures by Victor Keegan in the Guardian. (In fact, many phones still don’t come with unlimited data by default, it seems.)
(The bit about maps being broken is sadly what I’ve come to expect from Nokia, having failed to reinstall the map app repeatedly on candace’s N73. Still, having that happen on a new, review unit is pretty poor show, even given those low expectations.)
