A bright future for the Nokia N9, indicates ‘Internet Marketing Services’ (erm…)
I wasn’t sure exactly how to post about this but a few of you have been asking me to share it so here it is. Please try to keep discussions constructive, on topic and non-inflammatory. Please read the post before commenting.
This info was released by a PR firm who report on some ‘research’ undertaken by ‘Internet Marketing Services’. I’ve not heard of PRWeb before but it is AlexaRanked top 1000 in the US. The research firm say the N9 is one of the most popular phones made by any company.
The ‘research’ by Internet Marketing Services apparently indicates that along with the iPhone 4S and SGSII, the N9 is one of the most impressive phones around. The article feels very odd, from the way they are unaware of how MeeGo is one word, to claims of the N9 apparently having the best camera out of all the phones on the market. There’s no mention of the clearly obvious Swipe UI, but they do claim that face detection and touch focus makes it a favourite with photographers -!? It says it’s better than the Lumia because it has 1024 MB RAM and UMTS/GSM? What? I can tell you the N9 is better because it has a front camera, it is a more purer design (no buttons) the screen is bigger, you can get 64GB version, it is Linux and the multitasking is pretty awesome. Of all the things to big up, 1024MB RAM?
I’m sorry, the article reads like one of those content filler posts of fluff – you know, one where they pay someone who’s never heard of the product to write about it, and I’m frankly rather annoyed that they call it research when it seems like they’ve done none, possibly just to link to the site that keeps popping up on ‘Nokia N9′. The site that they link to say that they’re not an affiliate of Nokia, they just love the product and apparently have spent ‘many weeks’ researching its features. Furthermore the site they link to has odd text such as “Buying Nokia N9, you can also expect to win several interesting and exciting incentives and offers”. What? Regardless of what device they’re talking about, the whole thing kinda sounds fishy to me.
There is so much more to the N9. The supreme design, the innovative swipe UI, the amazing combination that is a testament of Nokia hardware, Nokia design and Nokia software. Anyone with an internet connection and google could have found that out.
Actually the more I look into it, the more it seems like it’s a plug by the site that prweb links to. The purpose to get their story onto several places on the net (like Yahoo). http://service.prweb.com/why-prweb/ I’m not even sure I should post this spam. Some have linked the Yahoo story, which is of the same spam.
http://news.yahoo.com/market-survey-internet-marketing-services-indicates-bright-future-120249564.html (via deepspacebar)
It doesn’t really help the N9 when the content used to praise it appears to be spamfluff. It’s not even some blogger with an agenda or faboyism. Just random string of words connected to the N9.
We can recite so many more, from actual authorities online that have shown much genuine affection for the N9. Did I read the article wrong? It seems enough of you linked it to me recommending me to post it so there must be something here I’m missing. Was there actual credible research that they haven’t seem to have linked to? Or is it actual spamfluff? SEO fluff? >_< It’s odd because people have linked this and are discussing it but it seems they only read the title unless, as I’ve mentioned, I’m completely missing the key part in the articles themselves :S
Here’s a link to genuin people tweeting about how awesome the Nokia N9 is: https://twitter.com/#!/search/nokia%20n9%20awesome. Chris Davies from SlashGear was sad he had to give his trial N9 back.
Anyway, cheers all for the tip. As incognito said about this story, “take everything they say like all good things in life – with a grain of salt… a slice of lemon, and a shot of tequila!”
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Its some kind of scam post, just ignore and move on.
Was it that obvious? I don’t get why it was tipped over and over though?
Love is blind.
To get you to spread the spam?
That is odd, isn’t it?
Well, isn’t the purpose of spam – to force-fed you information you don’t want to see. In that regard, this one is quite successful.
I call this kind of spam `meme-spam` – spam intended to spread as a meme. The recipe is quite simple:
- Pick a topic many people feel passionate about
- Praise the hell out of the subject of their adoration
- If possible, target teenagers!
I’ve posted it @ Tips more as a curiosity, than as a wish for you to write an article on it. On one hand, you have a fairly serious site posting it, so it’s hard to disregard it; on the other hand, the text looks almost as generated by IBM Watson. And the site it’s referring is even of more dubious nature… That being said, the base premise is not far from truth when it comes to desirability factor – there weren’t many unique and awesome devices released last year, so the N9 easily sits with the top bunch.
Now, about that tequila…
Aside from the quality of the article, well written or not, spam or not, IMO the praises for N9 is real, the rating at gsmarena.com agree with that.
I totally agree. “We can recite so many more, from actual authorities online that have shown much genuine affection for the N9. ”
We have made tons of posts about people loving the N9. Fans, non fans, traditional Nokia haters. They all love the Nokia n9.
What confused me about this article is why I got linked to it so many times by regulars. Consider if this post talked about a different phone, how much flames it would get for simply being spam fluff as evident by the fact that other posts by genuine sources (blogs/reviews) get accused as paid content.
Perhaps it is an effort at showing love to the n9 and well yeah it deserves that.
I now understand your reason for posting it but not why others kept on sending me the link and asking me to write about it.
I am of course very happy when someone likes a Nokia product, we have all seen the myriads of N9 posts and the brilliant responses and reviews about it. I just wasn’t sure what this article was supposed to be adding rather than empty spam fluff. It doesn’t help the N9 that they say silly things that the reason it’s good is because of 1024MB RAM, completely overlooking the actual genuinely amazing things in the N9.
Perhaps I am new to meme spam. Would that then be considered propaganda because in a sense then it is misleading the way it mispromotes the N9 and tries to detract away from a different Nokia product? I already gave examples on how exactly they could have shown N9 was better if they actually tried and did some research. It’s annoying that crap like this could end up on yahoo news.
It’s not really a propaganda – more like a cunning way to draw traffic to your site and then sell the stats for advertising money. For that purpose they usually use a popular product, or a controversial topic or something that instils passion in their target audience, and instead of doing the leg work and spamming mailboxes or blog/news comments – they let the people spread ‘the good/bad word’.
I’ve seen a ton of such ‘articles’ about pretty much every piece of popular technology, but this is the first time I see it for the N9. I did encounter the site it relates to, tho, but dismissed it after the first subtitle ‘The Ultimate Window Phone’. Chances are they are don’t know the first thing about it. Thankfully, I keep my Adblock Plus always on and disable it only on sites I find valuable, so they didn’t get anything from me except spent bandwidth…
Of course, I reserve the right to be wrong on the off-chance that the mysterious `Internet Marketing Services` did a real research, but then one has to ask – why would they phrase it like it’s coming from a `lorem ipsum dolor sit amet` generator?
Oh I see. So the topic is actually meaningless, they just took something popular to sell traffic? Makes sense. And in a way, a positive for Nokia N9 as it is seen in that regard.
It is very popular here. Any N9 stuff is mostly gold. I wish I had more time to do N9 related things. Shame it takes like 1-2H to process videos and then 1h to upload :S.
I hope I used the no follow links correctly. I also hope that is the reason the other guys linked this post as opposed to not actually having read it and thought it was actually real research.
TLDR: Annoyed they can’t be bothered to praise N9 properly; happy they thought N9 was popular enough to use for driving traffic to their site.
I want the update for my Nokia N9 cyan. when when when……………………
Read the article! PRWeb says there will be no updates for cyan, only for pink.
At least someone is issuing press releases, even if Nokia don’t.
Google. They are trying to take attention from the lumia. Try to make people think the lumia line is less so they wont buy it. This is all the competition has.Their OS is nearing 10 years old.
Google praises N9 to ignite internal conflict in Nokia? Haha, nonsense!! But if Google combine Android & MeeGo to create Android 5.0, I’ll surely buy it without think twice.
Fuck Elop if there is no N9 successor!
There will be as it mixes in with windows on Apollo. I’ll sell you mine if you really want another. There are no apps! Still if works great,etc.,etc, but there are no apps. Who would watch the windows8 demo on tablet and not say “i want it!” Its fantastic and I must have windows phone also.
Google’s Eric must see the writing on the wall as he just sold a huge amount of shares.
Danny means N9 successor with MeeGo OS, not WP8 with MeeGo features.
“there is no apps” please what app do you need so much you are willing to pay for??? Because I’m sure many here wont mind doing it…
Really honest question, I was checking the Iphone apps to see if I saw one obvious one I could do for the N9, and after removing the absolutely stupid, and the over complex/expensive for me to do I saw very little, I might do a Ibeer clone. But really most i found to be already available in the N9 app store.
What might be missing is a huge volumes of games, but there are plenty and some really fun and well made.
Does any one here know how many apps it has already? Seams like quite a few more than 2 thousand? discounting the stupid rss feeds.
Difficult to tell but discarding all the spammy fluff, my-meego.com lists 1247 at http://my-meego.com/software/index.php
I can’t say I’m missing anything in particular. A LastPass client would be nice though the mobile website suffices. A PayPal client maybe though again, the website works great.
@Danny
agree 100%
Check out my n9 on sale at ebay when I get my lumia. You’ll love it. Why wait for the next one? Two is better than one. One for each hand. Lets get a bidding war going. With all this n9 love, starting bid $1000 usd or 1/2 ounce perth mint gold.
“Jay, another example????
You’re going from an N9 to a Lumia?
Why? I have both. The Lumia would be on eBay now if it wasn’t used for mobile web site testing.
I went from an N9 to Lumia, and now my N9 is collecting dust in a drawer in my desk.
As good as the N9 was, it never really stood a chance against the Lumia.
Dont wait put it on sale now and send us the link please, really do that, or many might think you are like many others just making a bit of trooling… I’m sure you are not so just post the ebay link so we can buy it from you.
I’ll swap your N9 for my Lumia if you want. Always nice to have a backup and I can pick up a cheap WP7 phone for under £100 anyway I guess. An old Omnia or something will be fine for testing WP7 web bugs.
All world people says n9 is very impressive. But i found that elop said it is flop. and all sites praises lumia because which made by nokia but any people not like lumia handsets. Both microsoft and nokia are very late current in the smartphone race. I see that the nokia hate google but nokia have no option without google both company know that storys.
Its not Nokia that hates google, its Android users who bought their phones before google changed the contract between user and google. When you bought before the change of policy you agreed to the terms, now you cant opt out. I think you would win in court for 3x the purchase price.
Jay surely you didn’t think this was legit?
Was it some kind of subtle dig?
I know many of the Maemo6x/Symbian users are pure trolls.
(in fairness you have to understand where many are coming from, & I know you can appreciate that)
But don’t start to see all of us as that plz.
The article was presented to me by various readers, some of which were regular as something I should write about. I didn’t want it to seem like I ignored the story because it’s about the N9 (which is a constant insinuation by a different rare few that the stories here are only WP or ‘filtered’).
It was even shared on the n8 facebook fan page as if it was genuine research. I had my suspicions about the content (not because it was N9 but because it lacked substance) and I was not going to post it. Based on the description by those sharing it, they seemed to have read it as genuine research.
The only reason you guys are reading it because I respected the other regular readers who tipped this in and given the time I wrote it I might have missed a link or misread something so room for error on my part and it could have been something genuine.
Cool, cool, NP, thank-you for the rationale
Jay the silly article ended up serving for one thing, exposing some more wp side trooling on a specific N9 article…(the one that does not exist) the article is spam and in a way exposes the fact that alot of people in the world care about the N9 and that generates traffic…
Please leave that thread discussion where it was. The examples you gave of trolling was not, and this one again is not. The guy says he has both phones and just says he’s going to sell one. As for N9 specific, the article we link to and my own writing talks about both the N9 AND the lumia.
If he started saying N9 sucks with no explanation, then perhaps that is trolling. If he was to repeat that in every N9 post, then perhaps that is trolling. If he was to go in n9 apps and say out of the blue, N9 UI sucks (even though we are talking about the app) then perhaps that is trolling. See the difference?
Also look at the comment it is replying to. Look at the obscenity used. Yet you ignore that.
Please that guys posts “twig” were clearly trolling.
I’m amazed you don’t see that Jay??
There’s plenty of blatant WP trolls/bashers.
And he certainly fits in the opposite mold.
READ his first comment, what it replies to. If anything, he is feeding a troll comment. What on earth is that outburst?
Please, let’s not turn the discussion into what the heck is a trolling comment. It’s very hard as everyone thinks their comment is just their ‘opinion’ and really, what does it solve?
I have asked before to try and make the comments constructive. It is not adding anything to the conversation.
Is that 1st comment posting out-of-context in a WP-related article?
No…
He’s entitled to express his exasperation.
Now the reaction to his comment (+ his subsequent posts) is clearly a troll response.
How on earth you can’t see that is rightfully surprising.
I agree that it’s pointless debate, so happy to shut-up now.
N.B.
By 1st comment I’m referring to:
“Fuck Elop if there is no N9 successor!”