Nokia N97: The Truth

nokiatruth · 464.1K views · 2009-09-06 · 4:32

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Overview

A parody video contrasting Nokia's polished N97 promotional material with the sluggish, buggy reality of using the phone.

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Cited as an infamous example of the gap between marketing renders and shipped products.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2010–2013

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Satire & parody Consumer devices & gadgets

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potatolicious · 2013-06 · Reference
I don't think we're actually disagreeing. I'm not saying that the average iPhone user has remarked "Core Graphics is great! It makes my phone so responsive and fast!". I'd be very surprised if any lay iOS user has ever said that ;) But the idea is the level of interactivity and the UX around iPhone would have been impossible without the platform Apple first built for OSX. Many other manufacturers at the time had UX ambitions like Apple, but were held back by their own platforms. This infamous video comparing the concept renders of the Nokia N97 vs. what shipped really demonstrates this: [VIDEO] It's not that Apple didn't innovate on the UX, they sure as hell did, but rather that they bought themselves a huge lead on the competition by having, for all practical purposes, the only platform around that could even do something like that.
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seivan · 2012-09 · Criticism
Yeah..... never trust Nokia after [VIDEO] ] They don't grasp how much they hurt themselves with crap like that. If your product isn't good enough to be used in the commercial, then don't sell it.
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wvenable · 2011-06 · Criticism
Nokia produces another slick computer-animated video showing how fast, responsive, and stable their phones are. Doesn't anyone remember this: [VIDEO]
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