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I have to disagree, Samsung really did make their product look identical to Apple's, whether it was on purpose or not. http://dailymobile.se/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ipad-2-vs-samsung-galaxy-tab-10.1.jpg Without the home button and the slightly different shape, they look exactly the same. Apple asserts that this fact may confuse customers. And don't forget that a LOT of shops selling non iPad tablets will still put that typical iPad home screen screenshot on it. Remember the ordeal where a Samsung display had all the core Apple apps up on the wall? Do I agree with patents like this? No. But if they exist and they should be enforceable, I think Apple has a case.

It isn't just Apple that Samsung has a tendency to "draw inspiration" from. There's also the Samsung Blade, a clone of the Motorola RAZR, and the Samsung INNOV8 is a clone of the Nokia N96. So before the usual anti-Apple rhetoric starts a-flyin', keep in mind that Samsung is one of those companies whose business is centered on making commodity knock-offs of popular products. I don't blame Apple for suing to protect Jonathan Ive's design work, because if one of the knock-offs is low quality or problematic, it can end up hurting Apple's brand.

Contradiction much?

You know it's possible to be wrong about something and also be wrong to bring it up in the first place.

Yeah about that lens: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtIFBMbiaPo&feature=player_embedded
Yeah about that camera: http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/07/08/nokia-n8-camera-2260-days-in-the-making-part-12/ and http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/07/09/nokia-n8-camera-2260-days-in-the-making-part-22/

HDR? that you've never mentioned until Apple added it recently? http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/07/27/nokia-n900-fcam-hdr-and-low-light-examples/ (that's before the iphone added it, and will come to N8). Other nice things in the N8 (and its S^3 siblings) are automatic panorama: http://dailymobile.se/2010/09/21/nokia-n8-panorama-photo/

Okay, so the camera's nice, but, not by much, and Nokia hasn't shipped HDR in a phone device. The N900 is more like an expensive ass MID.

Now obviously you're just a troll, but I hope some might find these links useful.

Nokia's still doomed. The N8 isn't as nice as the iPhone, or any of the high end Android devices. The US has caught up with Europe in terms of quality of phone and has now blown Nokia out of the water. Apple and Google will continue to eat Nokia's lunch. Nokia's not even popular in Finland anymore.

"""Uhm, better hardware? .. Beyond that, devices are more than just their spec sheet, it's the whole user experience and ecosystem."""

Contradiction much?

"""the 12 Megapixel camera, which is pointless because the lens on cel phone cameras suck. All that 12 megapixel camera's doing is just providing the same grainy photographs but using more space. When you publish these images to the web, it gets downsampled anyway."""

Yeah about that lens: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtIFBMbiaPo&feature=player_embedded
Yeah about that camera: http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/07/08/nokia-n8-camera-2260-days-in-the-making-part-12/ and http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/07/09/nokia-n8-camera-2260-days-in-the-making-part-22/

HDR? that you've never mentioned until Apple added it recently? http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/07/27/nokia-n900-fcam-hdr-and-low-light-examples/ (that's before the iphone added it, and will come to N8). Other nice things in the N8 (and its S^3 siblings) are automatic panorama: http://dailymobile.se/2010/09/21/nokia-n8-panorama-photo/

Resolution? N8 is 210ppi, nothing wrong with that. And certainly never was an issue for iphone fans until the iphone 4 (up until then they had 163ppi).

"""You think it's a good idea for a phone to be always connected to some server to be told how hot or cold it is outside? You don't see how this could say, impact the battery?"""

Widgets know when the screen is on, when the network is up, and which screen you are looking it. They do not update otherwise. Oh, and you can see if you missed a call without having to unlock your phone. Battery life is very good on the N8, even when using widgets: http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2010/09/23/nokia-n8-live-photography-live-qa-join-in-now/ as told by an iphone 4 user.

Now obviously you're just a troll, but I hope some might find these links useful.

http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2009/10/why-the-ovi-store-is-still-total-bollocks.html

http://dailymobile.se/2009/05/26/ovi-store-a-complete-disaster/

http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/forum/showthread.php?t=90439

Nokia just isn't innovating anymore. What's Meego got in terms of user experience that iPhone OS doesn't? "Freedom" is a joke. Freedom is why my Windows mobile devices sucked balls("If you see a task manager, they did it wrong"). Losing freedom in a mobile handset isn't like being put into martial law. It's just a damned phone.

Nokia was late to the game with multitouch and centralized app sales. They may be selling more units than Apple, but, for how long?

I’m sorry, but not only does the N900 run Quake 3 (and very smoothly). No, it also runs Windows 95 and MacOS X!

But I haven’t seen news for this on /.

Funny that this could never ever happen with iPhone (locked down), so we’re at least safe from that. ;)

Looks fairly nice: link

I've been playing with a full c64 emulator on my Nokia nseries which runs Symbian for the last couple years :). I can even emulate a Commodore Amiga on it.

I really don't understand Apple, and maybe someone can explain - what can you possibly write on the C64 that would constitute an actual platform like Java or Flash (both of which also run on my Nokia)? In other words: what threat does the Commodore 64, a machine that is 27 years old represent to the iPhone's already existing dev kit?

Phones are meant to be carried around in pockets; "external forces" act on them as a matter of normal usage.

Two features that may make the iPhone susceptible to exploding are its thinness and its use of a non-removable battery. If you look at Nokia's 5800 touch screen phone, it's significantly thicker, but it can be carried around in a pocket without exploding.

I've had a dozen cell phones so far, and they have lived in bags, backpacks, and pockets. I've dropped them and sat on them. They've never broken or exploded. If the iPhone does, it's a design problem with the iPhone.

No, the proxy compresses it into something smaller and easier to process. It converts it to OBML (Opera Binary Markup Language) aka it pre-compiles it as mentioned higher up the chain. So a phone without the memory and CPU power to run a full rendering engine that supports HTML and CSS (and javascript) can probably still run the smaller more streamlined rendering engine of Opera Mini which doesn't have to deal with all the disparate formats out there on the web. It just has to deal with OBML.

On my phones, I can either use something that looks like this or use Opera Mini which looks like this.

Its a lot more helpful than mere compression.

All the comments about "just use USB!" miss one important point: it's not necessarily the best form-factor for a charger. If anything, the Nokia charger is.

-it's tiny and cheap to make: just a 2mm barrel.
-rotational symmetry, unlike USB, so you can plug it in while talking.
-low friction, so it won't damage the phone if the cable gets pulled.

I think the best solution would be to make the Nokia charger plug into a standard, as part of the EIAJ barrel connector standards. Those plugs are already just a series of different-sized barrels, so the Nokia connector would make sense there, at the small end of the range.

This doesn't solve the problem of a data connection. But as far as simple charging goes, nothing beats the Nokia connector.