Comments on: Could Nortel Have Invented the iPhone?

By: Jobe Roberts

Jobe Roberts — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:09:14 +0000

Why doesn’t someone just ask Don Lindsay what he did? You should probably easily find him; he’s at Microsoft Live Labs now.

By: Technologist

Technologist — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 03:27:55 +0000

Nortel has had an “i” phone for many years – The “i2004″ voip phone

By: newsmaker

newsmaker — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:41:27 +0000

hmmm,
well it wud make no difference if nortel wud have invented it. First of all, it was much before the need when the development was planned. Secondly and the most important one, Nortel guys are in no match with Apple Inc in terms of creating a hype about the product.
After all, one needs to have good marketing strategies apart from good products.

By: Sovietologist

Sovietologist — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:13:31 +0000

Gimme a break! There are lots of things that Nortel has had a hand in inventing or great ideas that they have worked on but have repeatedly missed the opportunity to commercialize (eg click to call, voip clients, etc). But the company is too much of a dinosaur and too far removed from end users to even come close to creating something like Jobs & co are capable of…

By: Have an opinion

Have an opinion — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:14:57 +0000

As the writer suggests it is far-fetched. Interesting nonetheless.

Interesting though Nortel did come up with the concept of “Visual voicemail” that Apple was selling in their callpilot product. I wonder if any ex-Nortel people that worked on that product now work at Apple