Nokia's CES 2008 booth tour

Although the outer dimensions remain unchanged, Nokia's CES booth is considerably larger in usable square footage this year compared to last because some of its private meeting space has been jettisoned to a location elsewhere in the convention. They've used the extra space well, too; in addition to several areas where passers-by can handle the latest phones, there's a long, wrapping counter for demoing what Nokia calls its "experiences" -- things like the Music Store, for example. Check out all the pretty colors in the gallery!

Gallery: Nokia's CES 2008 booth tour

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[huh @ Jan 8th 2008 10:46PM]

Nokia needs less "experiences" and more "cohesion." How many product lines do they have? Poor developers and consumers.

[xbit @ Jan 9th 2008 3:19AM]

Poor consumers... buying over a million of their phones a day.

[huh @ Jan 9th 2008 8:59AM]

OK, I'm talking about the higher end consumers, compared to the iPhone, where there's really one version that will constantly be updated, like a pc and not like something disposable.

[amby @ Jan 9th 2008 9:04AM]

Like the N95? :-) Constantly updated sw and hw-wise (not like the iPhone). The rest of the N-Series line (the high-end phones) are also seeing firmware updates. Maybe not monthly, as we would like, but still... exactly what you wanted to see.

Although I agree with less product lines :-)

[huh @ Jan 9th 2008 9:17AM]

The n95 is a case in point. There are three different versions of it, all running significantly different versions of firmware. n95 is at v20, n95-3 is at v12, and n95-8gb is at v15. And they've all been updated within the last month (a bit longer for the n95, with the latest version). Why is this? It means developers can't develop an app "for the n95" (not to mention all the other Nokia products) and consumers are never sure (because it's such a maze) what will run on their phone. It sure doesn't build confidence.

As well, Nokia will not update their devices, even if the hardware would support it, past a current version (s60 v3.2 feature pack 1 in the n95's case). Whereas an iPhone, or an open Linux based phone, very likely will have updates available as long as the hardware supports it. Big difference in the long run if you don't like upgrading every time a new update comes out.

I don't understand their build process, it must be very inefficient, or else is entirely marketing driven.

[john @ Jan 9th 2008 9:17AM]

No mention of a new Internet Tablet? I was hoping they'd at last preview their WiMAX device.

[Rasmus Voss @ Jan 10th 2008 8:57AM]

The american market is driven much different than the rest of the world, Nokia is an european company therefor there products are much more non us'd as the iphone is.
The iphone is a typically US product that is made as a one time purchase, then you get updates, which apple gives you for free.

Nokia is more pleased with you if you start out at an 1100 move on to 6300 then to 3510 music edition, the to the N-series, the they made 4 hardware sales, which is far more profitable than betting on one hardware and only one.

nokias is by the way producing 10 phones per second :-D that, they gotta have som logistics experts.