(A recent photo opp with yours truly and his new toy…)
My new Nokia E61i is just starting its third battery cycle and I’ve already decided that it’s a keeper. Quite frankly I’m stunned by the breadth and scope of what I can do with it — it can run a frickin’ Gameboy emulator, for chrissakes!
My new handset is also my passport to a huge international community of users. Whereas here in North America it’s all BlackBerry this and iPhone that, Nokia owns the lion’s share of the market in Europe and Asia. To put this into perspective, Apple sold half a million iPhones in its first weekend of release, whereas Nokia moved almost a million smartphones worldwide each and every week in the first quarter of this year!
But despite the pressure of being a market leader Nokia is still willing to take chances with their advertising. I previously wrote about Symbian’s viral YouTube campaign for their Japanese products; now they’re running a cheeky website based on the premise of jealous computers. Here’s a sample video:
And you know what? They’re not so far off the mark… I’ve some other new Nokia toys in my stable of gadgets that I’ll be writing about in the very near future:
Stay tuned!
Filed under: Desktop, Mobile | Tagged: E61i, Nokia, Tablet, YouTube
AC:
Having seen your phone in person, it’s pretty sweet.
That video’s awesome –I had music playing at the same time, so when mashed with “Turn Me Loose” by Loverboy it becomes even more surreal….
Ed
PS: I don’t normally listen to Loverboy, honest, but it’s on the Juno compilation CD so it comes up about once a month….