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What does Nokia mean by “entirely new type” of mobile phone?

Categories: Nokia, Symbian
By: , IntoMobile
Monday, June 11th, 2007 at 2:52 PM

The Nokia E90 just launched in Finland, limited quantities of course, and during a press interview Antti Vasara, General Manager of the Mobile Devices Business Unit said a few interesting things:

Nokia is not too enthusiastic about touchscreens, since all their tests had shown that users prefer keyboard and joystick for an input device. But they are ready for touchscreens if they see the demand.

Consumers don’t like to learn using new shapes/form factors on mobile phones. That’s why Nokia E70 isn’t selling well.

Nokia will be launching entirely new type of mobile next year.

What in the world could it be? His two comments completely oppose each other. If customers don’t like to learn about new shapes and form factors then why are you bothering to launch a new type of mobile phone next year?

Confused!

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Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Viipottaja

    Could be related to their recent patents with e.g. a detaching keyboard.

  • Paul

    What’s up with this observation:
    “Consumers don’t like to learn using new shapes/form factors on mobile phones. That’s why Nokia E70 isn’t selling well.”

    I have an E-70 and have never had it out in public without people coming up to me saying it was the coolest phone they’d ever seen. Isn’t the fact that no major wireless carrier has chosen to carry the phone the reason it isn’t ubiquitous by now?