Seriously iPhone should sue the crap outta nokia. iPhone unveiled in Jan of 07. Nokia n900.,2009 ambient light sensor proximity sensor accelorometer visual voicemail. Prior to iPhone this was just a wet dream for bloggers.
Dude...what? We're talking about GSM, UMTS (3G) and WiFi here, not accelerometers and ambient light sensors. Even though I haven't done research on this, I'm going to take a wild guess and say Nokia MAY have had a GSM/UMTS phone or two out before the iPhone.
Ambient light, proximity and accelerometers have all existed well before the iPhone came out.
Similarly, the iPhone's Visual Voicemail is one mobile implementation of technologies that have been around for a number of landline based systems (and expansion cards for computers). To give you an idea, there was a landline equivalent of this available on the Amiga back in the day, including recording the calls as WAV or AIFF and identifying the caller via Caller ID or looking up on an internal database of stored numbers.
In short, a good implementation of a technology doesn't mean it's a NEW technology, even if the majority of people (or you in particular) never heard of it before.
@j.heffernan I totally went to Wikipedia to remind myself when was my Nokia 7650 available. And THAT was a great phone. FFS, I even emailed apps to that phone.. Oh, and it had a ambient light sensor and proximity sensor.. Back in '02..
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Seriously iPhone should sue the crap outta nokia. iPhone unveiled in Jan of 07.
Nokia n900.,2009 ambient light sensor proximity sensor accelorometer visual voicemail. Prior to iPhone this was just a wet dream for bloggers.
Dude...what? We're talking about GSM, UMTS (3G) and WiFi here, not accelerometers and ambient light sensors. Even though I haven't done research on this, I'm going to take a wild guess and say Nokia MAY have had a GSM/UMTS phone or two out before the iPhone.
A device (iPhone) can't technically sue anyone you moron... It would have to be Apple to sue.
...my Xbox360 should kick the crap out of you troll!
Not to mention that the N95 (Aug '06, for those of you keeping score) had both an ambient light sensor, and an Accelerometer
Yeah...My Moto Q had an ambient light sensor. The prada had accelerometers. Visual Voicemail has been an WinMo app for awhile now.
So...maybe you should kinda shut up...thanks.
My Nokia 6630 i bought in 2005 (but was available from 2004) had an ambient light sensor and so did most S60 Nokias since then.
Ambient light, proximity and accelerometers have all existed well before the iPhone came out.
Similarly, the iPhone's Visual Voicemail is one mobile implementation of technologies that have been around for a number of landline based systems (and expansion cards for computers). To give you an idea, there was a landline equivalent of this available on the Amiga back in the day, including recording the calls as WAV or AIFF and identifying the caller via Caller ID or looking up on an internal database of stored numbers.
In short, a good implementation of a technology doesn't mean it's a NEW technology, even if the majority of people (or you in particular) never heard of it before.
In other news, Napster is being sued by MP3
My Nokia 7650 from 2002, running Symbian, had an ambient light sensor and a proximity sensor.
@j.heffernan I totally went to Wikipedia to remind myself when was my Nokia 7650 available. And THAT was a great phone. FFS, I even emailed apps to that phone.. Oh, and it had a ambient light sensor and proximity sensor.. Back in '02..