Nokia Responds to iPhone
Even though I work at Nokia, I have no inside knowledge about what the “official” reaction to Apple’s iPhone is, nor am I authorized to make such a statement. 
Meanwhile, the folks at techdigest.tv cornered Nokia’s VP of Nseries Computers Pekka Pohjakallio at CES and asked for his response.
“I think it confirms our story,” he says. “We have been preaching the message of converged multimedia in one device, with lots of use cases and a good experience for the whole life of Nseries. And now Apple have come and said basically the same thing, even if they have implemented some things differently.”
What I will be interested in seeing is the only response that matters in end: the products, or lack thereof. Certainly the Nokia N95 has something the Apple iPhone doesn’t have: built-in GPS.
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Comment by Jeremey
The iPhone did appear to have some kind of location awareness, which they made use of in Google Maps, but that could be a part of the “partnership” with Cingular, I suppose, and not GPS. I would think Steve would’ve touted GPS specifically if it had it. I love the quote from Pekka, “…even if they have implemented some things differently.” Yeah, like everything, 10 times better.
I, at least, have been waiting a long time for someone to actually write good software for a phone/mobile device. My E61 was OK by Monday’s standards (only by comparison) but pretty poor by today’s, and I think the real key is the screen and the lack of physical buttons. It remains to be seen how well the whole thing works, but if it’s as good as it looks, I think it’s a game-changing device.
Hopefully the iPhone will give other device manufacturers (ahem, ahem) a huge kick in the pants to actually try and innovate on the software side. Today’s devices run crap for software.