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What are the most innovative brands? |
Brightspark
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what do you think the most innovative brands are, and WHY(for example, mention some of their innovations)?
by innovative, i'm referring to hardware or software innovations that one brand developed that was adopted by other manufacturers
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Tsepz_GP
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Id say most have had their moment. SE with the W900 having a powerful GPU for its time, NOKIA with the N91 and its audio hardware, N93 with its brilliant VGA 30FPS, 3x Optical Zoom video recording,extremely powerful GPU, AND form factor, 7650 for bringing in Symbian S60, N95 for having all the N93 has in a smaller more pocketable package as well as how the N95 except for optical zoom, as well as how NOKIA have kept the N95 updated, to this day its STILL getting updates. MOTOROLA, generaly for alot they've done for the mobile industry but for ME the E398, the best music phone at the time, this phone came way before its time, and Apple iPhone, well just look at the forums and sales stats, you even get sites made for the dam thing.
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Brightspark
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many of them are not quite what i had in mind when i said innovations because most of them aren't. i was referring to such things as developing new form factors, new technology that becomes adopted by other brands, software features that become standards, etc.
whilst the e398 was the phone that became most known for its twin speakers, it wasn't the first - the moto e1000 was.
the iphone is not a device that is innovative as it contains nothing thats new or innovatie apart from multi touch(ie because apple bought the company that did the actual innovating, unsurprisingly). the mini 'revolution' brought by the iphone is down all marketing and hype rather than doing anything new.
please remember that sales figures mean zilch.
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xironghostx
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Neonode with their optical touchscreen. I have tried it and it really works very good. Way better then i thought it would do! The operating system was smooth too. Too bad I only tested it for a couple of minutes. The sweep style interface were smart and easy to use!
http://www.neonode.com
They went bankrupcy a couple of months ago 
Ericsson R310 must have been first of its kind, right? Well, people are still using that phone and that explains a lot, I think!
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Brightspark
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On 2009-03-06 22:45:13, xironghostx wrote:
They went bankrupcy a couple of months ago
that seems to be the fate of most companies that are truly innovative. |
SloopJohnB
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I can´t believe there´s still people saying the iphone is just ´marketing´... Wake up and smell the coffee please... How many touchscreen phones with finger-friendly UI, app stores and advanced browsers have you seen on MWC this year? LOTS.
I think Ericsson was really innovative and  too in the early years. Nowadays in terms of functions Nokia is always a tiny bid ahead of everybody. The catch is that ´more functions´ don´t necessarily make a better phone  . |
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MOTOROLA- startac, swivel form, the thin phones (V3) although in all fairness that honour belongs to Ericsson with the T28. ERICSSON- bluetooth, vibrate alert, touchscreen, first mp 3 player even though a lot of people still think it was Siemens, first FULL colour screen.
SIEMENS- slider phones, first 'colour' screen even if it was really only 3 colours. PHILIPS- voice dialling.
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Dups!
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MOTOROLA- startac, swivel form, the thin phones (V3) although in all fairness that honour belongs to Ericsson with the T28. ERICSSON- bluetooth, vibrate alert, touchscreen, first mp 3 player even though a lot of people still think it was Siemens, first FULL colour screen.
SIEMENS- slider phones, first 'colour' screen even if it was really only 3 colours. PHILIPS- voice dialling. NOKIA- internal aerial, edge, vga 30fps video recording.
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Brightspark
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EMS06
i believe you are correct - moto, siemens, ericsson. the rest don't even come close.
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epdm
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On 2009-03-09 22:13:11, Brightspark wrote:
EMS06
i believe you are correct - moto, siemens, ericsson. the rest don't even come close.
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And as was to be expected.... where are they now?
Siemens almost bancrupt
Moto almost bancrupt
SE resigned a lot of ppl this year... so I can presume... |
fatreg
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On 2009-03-07 19:37:57, EMS06 wrote:
first mp 3 player even though a lot of people still think it was Siemens
The first mp3 phone wasn't an SE that's for sure! The Samsung M100 was in 2000 and the Siemens SL42 in 2001, The HPM-10 I believe was in 2002?
Moto - Startac, V3,
Siemens - SL10, S11
Nokia - 5210, 7650
Rim - Dominate the whole push email market
HTC - First company to introduce Windows mobile on a phone (Tanager) opened up the whole world to new possibilities like syncing properly.
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Brightspark
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On 2009-03-09 23:10:50, epdm wrote:
On 2009-03-09 22:13:11, Brightspark wrote:
EMS06
i believe you are correct - moto, siemens, ericsson. the rest don't even come close.
And as was to be expected.... where are they now?
Siemens almost bancrupt
Moto almost bancrupt
SE resigned a lot of ppl this year... so I can presume...
erm, i didn't say SE. SE are far from innovate. i said ericsson. big difference, different company.
there are some things that EMS06 got wrong. for example, vibration alert is an innovation of moto and siemens really did the first mp3 capable phone. moto also have the first candybar, first clamshell, first twin speakers and stereo sound, quadband, first to introduce bass boost and spatial effects, and many others to their credit.
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Dups!
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@fatreg
I didn't mention SE BUT Ericsson. Ericsson did come up with a prototype mp3 player way before both Samsung or Siemens but they deemed it not ready for the market thus never really put it into production.
@Brightspark
Are you sure it was Moto with vibrate? I know Ericsson did that as an attachment to the phone first and not in built. |
Brightspark
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On 2009-03-10 01:40:57, EMS06 wrote:
@Brightspark
Are you sure it was Moto with vibrate? I know Ericsson did that as an attachment to the phone first and not in built.
yup. moto has the patent here: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4794392.html
"With the StarTac launch, a mobile phone became a truly personal device, which is why it grabbed such feature as the vibrating alert (trademark for this feature - VibroCall). Motorola, as well as other makers, was widely employing this technology in pagers, yet up until that moment it had never debuted on a mobile phone."
http://www.mobile-review.com/articles/2007/form-factors2-en.shtml
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Dups!
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Wow! Thanks for the link. Now that is a surprise indeed. Amazing!
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