NEW YORK, USA – News of the N97 injected an understandable yet near-paralyzingly excited and blinkered view on the Nokia of tomorrow, but with the N85 and N79 landing Stateside today it pulls pertinent focus on the Nokia and Nseries of today. See, here’s a duo of handsets that, like theĀ N97, were keen to innovate in classic Nseries style – the N85 in part with it’s OLED and battery talents, while the N79 shook things up with its custom design quirks.
So with this in mind, it seems only fitting to revisit these devices, and highlight some of the videos and articles that engaged back when the N85 and N79 were first showcased to the world back in August.
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BARCELONA, Spain – We’ve been wowed since this morning’s announcement and having now had a little play with the new Nokia N97, genuinely impressed is about the best way to sum it up. Imagine our delight then, when we got to sit down with the man responsible for the look and feel of the device, Shunjiro Eguchi. Creating a device like the N97 takes time and vision. Shunjiro puts the vision down to the users and the field research the design team do.
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BARCELONA, Spain – I was able to whip up a video of an N97 in action (below), with some screen movement going on to give you an idea of some of the things the device can do.
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BARCELONA, Spain – The N97 isn’t a device that will trigger knee-jerk hysteria, but instead it should breed cool-headed excitement at the prospect of a new era of mobile experience.
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GLOBAL – Nseries handsets have often been referred to by Nokia as multimedia computers, but we all know there still remains a line (though fading fast) between smartphones and portable connected computers, or netbooks, or whatever you want to call them. Is it now a question of when that line will disappear, or can it ever really vanish? In reality do we even need device clarity and categorisation?
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UK – The elusive beast that is mobile television has yet to tightly wrap its tentacles around the globe, however on-the-go telly is clearly still on the menu looking ahead.
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