Alongside the introduction of Ovi, the portal for Nokia’s Internet services and would-be “iTunes killer” (good luck with that), Nokia today unveiled four new mobile devices designed for entertainment, music and games. The devices range in price from 225 to 560 EUR and are expected to begin shipping later this year.
Also presented during Nokia’s GoPlay event was “a glimpse into the future of Nokia interface design… due out next year,” Thomas Ricker reports for Engadget. Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia’s Executive VP & General Manager of Multimedia, was asked about the stunning similarity to Apple’s iPhone. Vanjoki said, “If there is something good in the world then we copy with pride.”
Mobile user interface design by, ahem, “Nokia:”
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Sunlokyee” for the heads up.]
Nokia reinvents the phone with Apple’s iPhone!
It doesn’t get much more blatant than this one; cheap Chinese knock-off outfits included. Nokia has just clearly and unequivocally branded themselves as derivative losers. That would seem like a losing branding strategy, but it’s worked quite well for Microsoft in the past. Lately, not so much.
With this video, if actually from Nokia*, whatever respect we had for Nokia has gone “poof!” Dragged off the Dock forever. Dumped in the Trash and securely emptied.
It’s tIme to start vigorously defending those 200+ iPhone-related patents, Apple.
Apple should tell Nokia to “GoPlayInTraffic.”
*We’re currently slogging through hours of really bad accents to find out if this video is actually from Nokia via the company’s “GoPlay” site here.
Lead, follow, or get out of the way..
Who is surprised that the iPhone was going to be copied? The mobile phone designs has become stagnant anyway. They need a change.
By the time it’s out iPhone will be on version two. The one to watch out for is Google Phone (aka gPhone – with hot spots)
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That is some sincere flattery
What a crummy accent – “Nahkia”, “simplar”… that, plus the usual buzz words (e.g. “elegant”).
Rubbish.
Well I’m sure the new Nokia phones are running OS X.
At least make the outside look a little different…Nokia…do you have any class at all? Seems you just took apart the iPhone and copied each little part note for note. Do you have any pride at all?
Billions of dollars, and you just copy it?
Never thought I would say it, but the Zune has at least a little image of its own compared to this!!
Here come the morons with their “Apple ripped off LG first” nonsense.
i bet you can use this nokia phone with verizon, unlike att’s monopolistic agreement to make it the only official carrier for the iphone
Good artists copy, Great artists steal.
So I guess Apple will actually have to do something to differentiate the iPhone? The UI (basically the iPhone’s only feature) is too easy to duplicate.
So, how about unlocking the potential of the OS X that’s under the hood.
Otherwise, my guess is the Nokia’s and others to copy the “style” of the iPhone will be offering much more substance as well.
It’s a big market. At this moment Apple is the main player with this interface.
The secret will be seeing how much more the design will advance with V2 and whether Apple will introduce other models (like they did with the iPod)…
Apple has a head start as they did with the PC GUI, let’s see if they can hold it this time.
Why didn’t they just show an iPhone and say, “This is what we’re gonna make some day” rather than some video full of special effects?
“unlike att’s monopolistic agreement”
Inigo Montoya: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
it’s not an iPhone
Too expensive ..and no keyboard!
In the same page you can read this:
This was done with a REAL Nokia N95, using a Nokia SU-W8 Bluetooth Keyboard and was filmed by a Nokia N93. It was of course, done as crudely as possible (No video effects, no pre planning, no post editing, no fake nokLa, no preloaded video) just with an out of shot wireless keyboard that controls the phone.
For more details, click the link on this video’s description. The same video description that’s been there since this was uploaded telling explicitly this video is a spoof.
Trouble for Nokia is they are just a mobile phone maker. No wider ecosystem, no OS, just Symbian and anything else they can knock up, and of course, no innovation.
But they must take ‘pride’ on being able to copy at least as fast as the Chinese do..
560 Euros is $765 US. It will be interesting to see what the carriers will be willing to subsidize.
By the time Nokia’s phone line hits the market, won’t iPhones be even cheaper?
MDN MW: coming… not even a wet dream!
Speaking of blatant rip-offs:
http://www.engadget.com/tag/minione
How the hell did they get that touchscreen? That’s got to be daylight robbery of an Apple patent!
Hmm, my first thought was, I wonder how many of Apple’s patents have been violated for this.
Then MDN beats me to the punch, “It’s tIme to start vigorously defending those 200+ iPhone-related patents, Apple.”
With crap like this, the iPhone hackers will have Apple’s legal department protecting much bigger things than people figuring out how to get a phone working on a decent wireless network.
Come on. Those were superimposed videos on top of the iPhone. None of that was real. Look closer!
Apple’s 200 patents are mostly centered around the technology behind the multi-touch screen. Anybody can copy the design and they all most certaintly will.
Nokia ought to be completely ashamed of themselves. Sad thing about it is that most people won’t care.