That's funny. It reminds me of the Nokia N8, which was the highest spec'ed phone of 2010. It had an anodised aluminium monocoque case, a Carl Zeiss optic camera with 12.1 mega pixel resolution and Gorilla Glass (believe me, it's indestructible) AMOLED touchscreen. On top of this, it used a 680 MHz ARM11 processor with 256MB of RAM, with 16GB of internal memory.
Despite all of this, it's the worst phone I've ever used. The software was so dire that at one point, phone calls couldn't be made - even where other, older, Nokias could. I actually had to download Ovi, their app store. It wasn't preinstalled! It constantly froze, the touchscreen interface sucks, it's unresponsive even when it does work...
Nokia cannot do smart phone software properly. Here's hoping that Microsoft can do better, but I can assure you that if they do not, Nokia phones won't mean a damn to mostly anyone.
(Not only has the iPhone always used it, not only was it the first phone to ever use it, Steve Jobs was the one who convinced Corning to invent the stuff, if his biography is to be believed.)
Gorilla Glass was invented in the 60s, but they had no good use for it. Jobs asked Corning for a better smartphone screen and Corning came back with Gorilla glass.
Despite all of this, it's the worst phone I've ever used. The software was so dire that at one point, phone calls couldn't be made - even where other, older, Nokias could. I actually had to download Ovi, their app store. It wasn't preinstalled! It constantly froze, the touchscreen interface sucks, it's unresponsive even when it does work...
Nokia cannot do smart phone software properly. Here's hoping that Microsoft can do better, but I can assure you that if they do not, Nokia phones won't mean a damn to mostly anyone.