Could It Be Nokia That Beats-Out Apple In Mobile?
Can Nokia Beat The iPhone And iPad? (Don't Laugh, It's Trying)
Nokia has big plans to come back from the brink.Chances are if you were speaking on a mobile phone in most countries around the world (except the U.S.) six or seven years ago, you were clasping in your hand a little multi-colored, keypad-bedecked bundle of plastic and electronics made by Nokia. Your idle minutes were spent playing Snake on its gray display. But nowadays you’re much more likely to be gabbing–and surfing the web, updating Twitter, or playing a sophisticated game–on a touchscreen smartphone built by a handful of other makers.Nokia, you see, is perhaps the one company that’s been dealt the biggest slap across the face by Apple’s disruptive iPhone. It was slow to embrace touchscreen tech, slow to let go of its antiquated user interface, reluctant to innovate its smartphone lineup–and subsequently had to shelve its long-held business model, and embrace Microsoft’s clever smartphone OS. It’s planning a comeback. A big one. But success is far from assured.The iPhone KillerNokia’s chief of design recently remarked that his company was busy planning a future phone UI that would be so revolutionary it would surpass the current smartphone tech by miles. Marko Ahtisaari concentrated his disdain on the user experience on current Android and, curiously because it’s a Nokia staple, Symbian. According to Ahtisaari, the current smartphone UI is a dead thing, a toy, a “dollshouse” in fact, where users can merely adjust the “furniture” of the UI. 