MWC: Nokia Announcements – The Verdict
The monster that is Mobile World Congress has come and gone.. and I for one was lucky enough to be able to attend.
So what did people make of the announcements by Nokia?
The N96 - lovely as it is, is really just a refined N95 with some extra bells and whistles.. mainly DVB-H which isn’t even available in most countries yet. I understand that when you have a pretty good product in the N95 – you don’t need to re-invent the wheel, just make it better and I think that they (hopefully) have done that.
Again the same can be said for the N78 – which is the N73 replacement.. Again – its taken the best of its sibling and enhanced on it..
Overall have we heard anything groundbreaking? Well actually I think not.. Nokia Maps – lovely as it is.. its a Beta, again its just an update (ok a major improvement on the original) but not really anything new.
So what happened to Touch? This is the one thing that I was really hoping to see. Sadly it was a no-show (in handset terms at least).
As much as I like the look of the new handsets and the improvements to the software – I did come a way a little underwhelmed.. Thankfully the whole experience of being at WMC and having access to the Nokia Product Managers while there more than made up for it.
Being an Apple fan – we love the big bang announcements and the Steve Jobs Key Note – you really do get that wow factor. I know that nobody can match Apple for this. The problem is that they raise the bar and I just expect others to follow..
That being said – I really cannot wait to get my hands on the N96 when it comes out – it rocks!
[Note: I've been a little slow on the blogging front recently, this was drafted shortly after my trip to WMC, I thought I just as well post it, even if it is a bit late in the day..]
