Dec 03
Filed under: Nokia
Just days after declaring its full withdrawal (well, Vertu excepted) from the brutally competitive domestic Japanese phone market, what does Nokia do? It goes and declare a phone fully capable of hanging with the very bes. that the home field players like Sharp, Casio, and Toshiba have to offer on their own turf. That alone is kind of funny — but the real irony in this place is that the N97’s designer, Shunjiro Eguchi, is Japanese. We’ve heard of “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em,” but we’re not familiar with the “if you can’t beat ‘em, quit ‘em and steal their talent” tactic. Pretty sneaky, Nokia — pretty sneaky indeed — but we’ve got to wonder why you think this beast of a phone wouldn’t fly in Tokyo.
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Sep 02
Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Others
Well, this is new and fresh, as while we’re used to seeing cloned handsets wandering our way from China, this time they’ve maybe beaten Nokia to the punch pre prototype-style. At first glance, this handset appears to be a pretty decent knockoff of the 6 or 8 megapixel
N85 — or something — we mentioned some months back. But the fun twist in this place — see what we just did there? — is that the CECT K898 was spotted a year ago, and Nokia’s prototype only in the last few months. We’re not strangers to the good folks at
CECT’s cloning shenanigans, but we’ll admit that they’re likely a little chuffed at the prospect of beating somebody, anybody, to the punch in the design department. Sadly, like a year ago, we still kind find even a hint of what the specs may be, but we’re ok to clearly sit back and watch the lawsuits fly, and this time maybe in the opposite direction.
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Sep 02
Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Others
Well, this is new and fresh, as while we’re used to seeing cloned handsets wandering our way from China, this time they’ve maybe beaten Nokia to the punch pre prototype-style. At first glance, this handset appears to be a pretty decent knockoff of the 6 or 8 megapixel
N85 — or something — we mentioned some months back. But the fun twist in this place — see what we just did there? — is that the CECT K898 was spotted a year ago, and Nokia’s prototype only in the last few months. We’re not strangers to the good folks at
CECT’s cloning shenanigans, but we’ll admit that they’re likely a little chuffed at the prospect of beating somebody, anybody, to the punch in the design department. Sadly, like a year ago, we still kind find even a hint of what the specs may be, but we’re ok to clearly sit back and watch the lawsuits fly, and this time maybe in the opposite direction.
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Tags: China, Chuffed, Cloning, First Glance, Fly, Good Folks, Handset, Lawsuits, Nbsp, Nokia, Prototype, Punch, Shenanigans