Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Nokia bets on MultiTouch


According to DigiTimes, Nokia has just informed the manufacturers of chips that the company intends to increase the volume of orders in March. Thus, the famous Finnish company made it clear that it estimates, the crisis will be held soon and the demand for mobile devices will grow again. In this connection, it is worth recalling that in the IV quarter of 2008 Nokia profit fell 70 percent, and according to preliminary estimates, the first quarter of this year, is also unlikely. Nevertheless, Nokia is going to expand its model range and bring to market new models of sensory displays MultiTouch, as well as support for 3G and 3.5G.

Remember that at the moment, Nokia is the manufacturer of mobile phones number 1 in the world by turnover, but its share of the smartphone market is gradually shrinking. While the Finnish company to rest on its laurels, Apple has released intercepted the initiative and the iPhone, and iPhone 3G, which can be said to have committed the revolution in smart phones, primarily because of its touch displays MultiTouch. Although Nokia is making every effort to catch up with Apple, so far she has released only two models that can be called "murderers" iPhone, this is 5800 XpressMusic and the N97. Unfortunately, to kill the iPhone, they can not, if only because the iPhone and iPhone 3G is an entire platform, as the above models of Nokia smartphones is just normal, but nothing more. According to many analysts, a trump iPhone and iPhone 3G it is AppStore, which have no other manufacturers of smartphones.