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Nokia's fired out some interesting concept phones this year, but this newest "People First" design centers more on the functionality of the device than its physical shape. The idea is based around what Nokia calls "three human universals of the way people think about communication" which are time, lists and people. So instead of being the standard pile of multi-option menus, the UI relies on a scrolling history list, with the most relevant and recent things popping onto the top.
The phone would have a kind of dual-layer display: the main monochrome "history" scroller, and a smaller color display that deals with your selected options. At heart it's very simple, having just the "mobile essentials" of phone (or push-to-talk), camera, calendar and calculator. But this is where hacking comes in: the idea is that the phone would have widgets support, a simple and accessible programming language and openly available software and hardware specs. Presumably Nokia imagines a host of applications would arise, better-suited to user's needs than "default" applications, and saving them the bother of designing them too.
Matching the list-like, graphic-heavy nature of the UI, the phone would have a long, slender screen with a kind of jog-dial interface. Do we expect to see a real phone just like this anytime soon? Probably not. But we kind of like the direction this concept is taking— placing how people use their phones at the heart of design. What's your opinion guys: do you think this would work? [Nokia, Like Cool and Behance]
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This phone would fit my needs perfectly. I have about 220 contacts in my phone and call about 18 - 20 of them. This phone also has that slender tone that everyone loves right?
Excellent concept. You will see this applied to iPhone in short order (will work well with sliding one's finger).
There are PC apps that follow this paradigm as well (journaling software).
I'm not sure about this one, while it might be good for some I would probably not be able to use this at all. Just like I hate "personalized menus" for windows this would annoy me as well. I like not having to look at my phone to do certain things because the menus and UI don't change, memorizing button sequences to do certain things is rather easy but this would require to have to look at the phone to do anything
I like it. It seems to me that these devices need a new OS paradigm (I hate that word, but it's appropriate here). Standard icons and menus work until there are too many and you can't find things easily. I like the originality and the sort of tag cloud approach to working. I'd love to see an icon cloud on my phone, with the most used icons central and larger and the less used ones tiny in the corners.
i like it
why are that person's fingernails so disgusting ?
Cool bean Nokia, cool beans I say. They'll need something like this to compete against android when it launches. I still really like Symbian OS Series 60 though.
Nokia have an excellent R&D department. This confirms that point and why they're market leaders.
Now there's a solid concept! Everyone thinks that selling more phones means copying whoever is successful rather than coming up with original ideas and ways of making the user experience more usable and enjoyable.
I'll be interested to see how this develops.
Sounds cool to me. Bonus points for not looking like an iPhone too
Cool design, but the monochrome history display seems more like a gimmick than a cost saver or feature. I'd go full color. It's more than cheap enough at this point.
you can get lazier by allowing people to code their own os for the phone.
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