What does Nokia's Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo have to say about the upcoming Apple iPhone launch?Nokia NOK1V.HE, the world's biggest mobile phone maker, is investing in Africa to make the region its next big wireless market, Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said on June 01, 2007....
Kallasvuo said the entry of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) into the mobile phone business this month, with its widely anticipated iPhone,
marks the first time in years that a major new rival joins the highly competitive market.
Asked
how the iPhone, with its touch-sensitive screen, will change design trends in the industry and at Nokia, Kallasvuo hinted Nokia would offer more such technology in the future.
"I definitely believe touch screen will be something that will have increasing relevancy in the mobile phone," he said, "and we definitely are working on that."Most Nokia phones operate with button keypads rather than touch-based commands. Its first touch-screen device, the Nokia 7700, came out in 1994. It now has touch-screen phones on sale in China and two tablet devices for surfing the Web on the go.
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Apple iPhone is going to usher in a new era of touch-screen cell phones. Of course, Steve Jobs wants to downplay some of these key new innovations, and want you to focus on how you can browse the Internet on the iPhone, but let's face it: what do users use their cell phone the most for? Making / receiving calls, Texting or SMS, and checking voice mails. If Jobs is right though, browsing the Internet will become a huge thing thanks to the iPhone, and also listening to music.
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