I can’t help but notice…

… that many features that I previously described the iPhone as lacking are present on the rather nicely designed Nokia N95:

5 megapixel camera
Upload to Flickr
Video recording
GPS
RSS (though Apple seems to be building a web based RSS reader for iPhone)

The Nokia isn’t perfect. 2Gb storage (via microSD memory card) is pretty miserable. You have to use RealPlayer *spit*. I can only wonder how syncing all your different assets (contacts, email, music, pictures etc) works.

Apple are going to have to be more aggressive with incremental upgrades to iPhone than they have traditionally been. Reviews are appearing and it looks like the hype is (pretty much) justified – it could raise the bar for design and usability across the whole market. Once the interface is taken for granted however, these technological shortcomings will become more urgent.

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