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Nokia ad campaign touts open N-Series platform in wake of iPhone update controversy

Categories: Announcements, Apple, iPhone, Nokia
By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 at 11:27 AM

Take a look at the images below, they’re advertising bills posted in New York City. Do they sound like they’re alluding to something more than the Nokia N-Series phones being customizable? Well, they should. Nokia’s launched their “Open to anything” ad-campaign in response to Apple’s recent iPhone update v1.1.1. As you’ll remember, the update basically locked-down the iPhone to factory status and killed all third-party applications – closing down the OS.

Nokia makes fun of iPhone

Hey, Steve! You might do well to take a page out of Nokia’s playbook. You’ve already got the sexiest phone on the market, but looks alone will only take you so far. Nokia is touting their N-Series phones as being “Open to anything,” and that “The best devices have no limits” (other than the speed limit of the anemic processors – sorry, couldn’t resist). We agree.

Sure, multi-touch is badass. Yes, the iPhone is a beautiful piece of kit. But, if you sit on your high-horse and keep this all this sexiness locked-down, you might just find that the more homely devices with more features and flexibility will be the ones serving you a slice of humble pie. You listening, Stevie? Get the hell off that damn horse and give your customers what they want.

We love the iPhone, that much is clear. Don’t make us have to switch to the N95, just on principle alone.

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  • Viipottaja

    Hahaha, awesome!!!! In your face iPhone! The iPhone hype really IS over, and Apple will soon realise is one thing to take a market with little previous competition (i.e. MP3 players), its quite another to enter arguably one of the most competive electronics markets for arguably the most complex consumer electronic gadgets (i.e. complicated cell phones).

    I predict that iPhone sells will meet more or less their target for the first year, but will struggle in the longer term.

  • name

    author wrote: “Yes, the iPhone is a beautiful piece of kit.”

    I would rather write: Yes, the iPhone is a beautiful piece of shit.

    cos yes it is beautiful, but featureswise it is shit so:
    beautiful piece of shit