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Nokia mockup shows future handset design and UI

Published
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Kyle
on December 9, 2008
in Hardware and News
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During Nokia’s Capital Markets Day, the above slide came up depicting this touchscreen-only device with a pretty fancy UI. The slide got people in a frenzy and everyone was shouting “fake.” Although it’s a mockup, it was designed by Nokia and it serves as insight into where the company is going with handset design and UI. Recently, I’ve been playing with the Nokia E71 and found the option menus to be the most confusing thing since pre-Rosetta Stone hieroglyphics. For example, here is how you delete an email account that you created but no longer use:

Go to MESSAGING, find the EMAIL you want to delete , press options, press SETTINGS, press on E-MAIL, find the EMAIL you want to delete, press option, and than press the DELETE option.

Have you ever seen more redundant button pressing?

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Korean concept phones compete with Japan for spotlight

Published
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Kyle
on October 29, 2008
in Hardware and News
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Korean concept phones are shaking up the Internet these days. Take a look at the concept phone above for example. This phone is an interesting design that’s described by the designers as being built “to offer as much visual and emotional comfort as possible” and to emit a vague light when re-charged.”

The phones were commissioned by Pantech, South Korea’s third largest handset manufacturer, and represent what they hope to be the design of the next big phone. Designed by the Pantech Design Community, which is comprised of 20 college students, the phones could, at the very least, serve as inspiration for other handset manufacturers.
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