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Nokia closed its iPhone project in 2004?

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Officer reported that the Finnish manufacturer could produce analog iPhone back in 2004. But while the company has come to believe that there is hardly a sufficient number of people who purchase such an expensive device. Ari Hakkarainen

(Ari Hakkarainen), former manager of marketing at Nokia, told the publication The New York Times, the company once created a prototype device with a large touch screen and internet access.

Demonstration of the smartphone

held in 2004, that is, three years earlier appearance of the first Apple iPhone. Mr Hakkarainen said that touch screens were then expensive to manufacture, so that with the launch of the product for Nokia were involve certain risks and for this reason the company’s failure to create such a device. Ari Hakkarainen also noted that Nokia was discussed in the same 2004 the idea of ​​selling applications for smart phones through the online service, but, as we know, the company did not attach much importance to it.

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