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Re: Nokia's Windows Phone 7 concept revealed

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Post by jonhohle » Sat, Feb 12, 2011, 4:01 PM UTC

macco wrote: post #49

jonhohle wrote: post #36

Huh? Is this thread full of Nokia/Microsoft PR people? Seriously. How does this not look like every other modern Android, WP7, iPhone rip off? - Black minimalist screen ✓ - Horizontal speaker port ✓ - Buttons on the bottom ✓ - Cheap plastic case ✓ I don't think this phone could look more generic. Is this the state of the art in phone design outside of Cupertino? Are people's expectations really this low? I really don…

Actually i think it own of the rare phones that does not look like a iphone clone and looks gorgeus. As I said before, Nokia is the only phone company that has design on level with Apple - what is really hard by the way

The front half of the phone, besides the bottom row of buttons and lazier curves around the edges is almost an exact clone of every iPhone made. Where is Nokia's influence on this design?

Edit: Put another way: the Nokia N8 is distinctly a Nokia product and would never be confused with an Apple product from any angle. I consider that a handsome phone and something exciting and fresh. On the other hand, something that looks like an iPhone seems lazy and unimaginative from a company that has done much better.

Re: Nokia's Windows Phone 7 concept revealed

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Post by flyosity » Sat, Feb 12, 2011, 5:02 PM UTC

stcredzero wrote: post #46

flyosity wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure how much hardware design has to do with a phone's success anymore. After the iPhone came out, every manufacturer now makes phones that are 90% screen. How close are we to hardware design where the bezel around the screen is 1mm and the whole device is only a few millimeters thick? Won't every phone basically look the same with the OS and user experience the only differentiators? Isn't that pretty much ha…

Not anymore than watches all looked the same and accuracy, features, and water resistance were the only differentiators.

I don't think that's a valid comparison. All watches tell time, but how they tell time varies greatly. I own an automatic Panerai watch (http://cl.ly/4YkQ) and it looks completely different from watches that Urwerk (http://cl.ly/4XvZ) or Richard Mille (http://cl.ly/4XZR) make. Comparing how different those three watches look with the visual differences between, say, an iPhone 4 and a Nexus S and it's night and day. The Nexus S and iPhone 4 are about the same size, same thickness, same dimensions/proportions in width/height, about the same size screen, and the screen takes up about the same size % of the phone face.

Re: Nokia's Windows Phone 7 concept revealed

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Post by rbanffy » Sun, Feb 13, 2011, 2:45 AM UTC

spa942 wrote: post #17

endtime wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From TFA: >The best part about this whole discovery, however, might be that it confirms Steve Ballmer's assertion that the engineers of both companies have "spent a lot of time on this already."

If they had spent enough time they would have demoed it at the press conference, so they are probably mockups.

I think they are 3D renderings