I wouldn't exactly say that Nokia copied Motorola's RAZR because while the n76 is RAZR THIN, at the time that it was released (late 2006/early 2007) this thing had better specs than whatever current RAZR was out there (I don't think that there's any RAZR out there that is a smartphone. Sure there's the Motorola Q, but that stands on its own and it's definitely not a RAZR). Although personally I wouldn't pay $500 for the n76, even if it is a smartphone. They could have added in WiFi and a better camera and maybe that sticker price wouldn't look so bad. Spec-wise, I don't think that the n76 is as good as any of the more recent Nokia n-series.
P.S. I don't know if you meant by looks or specs, but if it's specs, Nokia doesn't have to copy the iPhone because they already have cell phones that have either a 4GB hard drive, a better camera (more than 2 megapixels), even a better video (some take videos at 30 frames per second which is near DVD-quality). They can probably improve the look of their phones more (and work on making them even thinner). Sure Nokia doesn't have any touchscreen phones (at least not yet) but it's not like Apple invented touchscreens (well, except for maybe their multi-touch thing).
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db @ Jul 2nd 2007 2:09PM
I wouldn't exactly say that Nokia copied Motorola's RAZR because while the n76 is RAZR THIN, at the time that it was released (late 2006/early 2007) this thing had better specs than whatever current RAZR was out there (I don't think that there's any RAZR out there that is a smartphone. Sure there's the Motorola Q, but that stands on its own and it's definitely not a RAZR). Although personally I wouldn't pay $500 for the n76, even if it is a smartphone. They could have added in WiFi and a better camera and maybe that sticker price wouldn't look so bad. Spec-wise, I don't think that the n76 is as good as any of the more recent Nokia n-series.
P.S. I don't know if you meant by looks or specs, but if it's specs, Nokia doesn't have to copy the iPhone because they already have cell phones that have either a 4GB hard drive, a better camera (more than 2 megapixels), even a better video (some take videos at 30 frames per second which is near DVD-quality). They can probably improve the look of their phones more (and work on making them even thinner). Sure Nokia doesn't have any touchscreen phones (at least not yet) but it's not like Apple invented touchscreens (well, except for maybe their multi-touch thing).