[Sigia-l] Tog on iPhone

[Manu Sharma]

From: "Manu Sharma" <manu at orangehues.com>

> Taiwanese manufacturer FIC introduced a phone that had a similar
> multi-touch interface including an identical pinch interface. It's
> called the GTA001. I blogged about it a few days ago:

> http://orangehues.com/blog/2007/01/iphone-questionable-origins.html

> Since then, I've also learnt of a Nokia phone, introduced only in
> Scandinavia recently in limited quantities, which too sports a
> multi-touch interface. I don't have the model # of this phone
> yet [...]

Okay I know more about it now. it's not a Nokia phone. It's from a
Sweedish company called Neonode.

Their N1m has all the "features" of the iPhone - calender, touch
screen phonebook, movie player, browser, camera, music player, sms
and even games.

Alas, not the user experience of iPhone. The touch screen, though it
takes finger / thumb inputs, is not multi-touch. The browser is
crippled, as is text entry. No scrolling at the flick of a finger or
resizing of web pages and images using pinch gesture like on the
iPhone or GTA001. That's what I could gather from  their site.

http://www.neonode.com

Both FIC which made the GTA001 and Neonode are small companies.
Startups are known to innovate, large companies are not. So all
kudos to Apple to continue innovating despite its size.

Thanks,
Manu