Osborne Effect Of The iPhone?
Not sure I completely buy the premise of this post: ‘Is iPhone Anticipation slowing Cingular Smartphone Sales?‘. Sounds like the Osborne Effect, applied to mobile phones. While I am confident that there is a lot of interest in the coming iPhone — I, for one, would have bought a Nokia N75 last Friday (though I prefer the N73) if Cingular was able to keep it up on their site for more than a few hours before pulling it for some undisclosed reason.
The iPhone is slick looking, but how well does it work as a phone? And when will the closed nature of the iPhone be addressed? Nokia has always delivered a solid product that never loses site of the fact that it is a phone first.
I look forward to moving my existing apps on my aging but still functional Nokia 6620 over to an N-series phone once they become available. The extensibility of the Symbian platform used by Nokia is a big plus for me and one that Apple is going to need to match if they want my business.
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Do you know when i can get iPhone in europe? greetings
According to Apple, the iPhone is to be available in Europe in the fourth quarter of 2007. There is some discussion at this site