Hello, iPhone? meet the N800
Hello, iPhone? meet the N800
Categories: Nokia 770, Nokia N800, business, 270 words1 feedback •Time to take another tech pundit to task.
Andrew Melcher begins a piece praising the iPhone's next-gen PC potential by interviewing, of all people, a random Apple store clerk. The floor jockey assures him in near-monosyllabic fashion that, one day, the iPhone will supplant desktop PCs and be the only device you'll need to tote around.
Current power discrepancies notwithstanding (we'll assume both Melcher and the clerk are envisioning the surely in-design quad CPU iPhone), there is definite potential for such a device, and its time isn't too far off. But it may not be an iPhone fulfilling the role first. The iPhone has some competition in that particular space, although Melcher seems oblivious to this:
And the iPhone may also be a killer technology for the cell phone hardware industry as well. The likes of Nokia (NYSE: NOK - News) will simply not be able to create functions valuable enough to compete with $600 (or $3,000) iPhones that are also dockable Apple computers. The cell phone manufacturers as well seem wholly unprepared to compete with Apple's well established desktop software universe.
I have a surprise for you, Andrew: it's called the Nokia N800, and today it can function as a basic laptop replacement. It even supports VOIP phone use via Skype, Gizmo or Googletalk. And you were saying...?
I'm left to wonder how the heck he could be so bold as to envision this brave new world of an iPhone on every computer desk, and yet be so completely oblivious to what Nokia has been doing with internet tablets. Maybe he's relying too much on the wisdom of Apple store clerks.
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