With a flurry of posts today I’m catching up on all my reading after a hectic few project and family visiting weeks. In the last few months Nokia popped up with a blog that covers many things, including design.
Link: Nokia Conversations (nokia.com, via)
Francesco Cara from Nokia talks about the mobile ecosystem.
Link: Evolution of the mobile communication ecosystem (liftconference.com)
Nokia’s written up a short article that highlights some examples of what they believe is good design for mobile.
Link: Mobile Design Showcases (nokia.com, via)
“Nokia is attempting to focus on features such as sharing content through touch-interactions and using tags as a way of controlling phone functions. Nokia seems to call these emerging interactions “tapping and sharing”. In the demo we see: Tag access to the system functions: we see a tag setting an alarm, tag access to files [...]
A slightly interesting article about innovation at Nokia is accompanied by some fun user-generated concept phones from their research.
Link: Nokia’s Dream Phones (businessweek.com)
Nothing new content-wise, but it’s notable that Jan Chipchase has hit the New York Times Magazine.
“This is when I voiced a careless thought about whether there might be something negative about the lightning spread of technology, whether its convenience was somehow supplanting traditional values or practices. Chipchase raised his eyebrows and laid down his spoon. [...]
Marek Pawlowski spoke with JD Moore about mobiles and developing countries for the upcoming MEX conference. Watch the 20 minute video below.
JD Moore talks to Marek Pawlowski about mobile user experience in developing markets
Link: In-depth video interview on emerging markets (mobileuserexperience.com)
Nokia ships 1 million new handsets every day; along with the clothing industry, the mobile phone business is the pinnacle of continuous conspicuous consumption: people buy new phones just to have something new.
Nokia has released a concept that is at least heading in the right direction here – a handset that’s made completely from recycled [...]
“Morph concept technologies might create fantastic opportunities for mobile devices: Newly-enabled flexible and transparent materials blend more seamlessly with the way we live; Devices become self-cleaning and self-preserving; Transparent electronics offering an entirely new aesthetic dimension; Built-in solar absorption might charge a device, whilst batteries become smaller, longer lasting and faster to charge; Integrated sensors [...]
Nokia concept video demonstrating adaptive form factors. Also a nice example of lo-fi video concepting.
(for those on the RSS, click the link for the video)
Link: YouTube – Nokia 888 Design (youtube.com)
“By now, probably everyone who cares, knows that Nokia is working on a next generation, Apple Multi-Touch like user interface – Nokia S60 Touch. But beyond pretty video pictures and generic headings like ” new sensor framework”, “UI accelerator kit”, etc; Nokia is pretty tight lipped about how the new S60 Touch will actually work…I’ve [...]
“Nokia recently released a press release about a report it had comissioned, ‘A Glimpse of the Next Episode’ which talked about the future of entertainment. The main trend identified was the coming of ‘Circular Entertainment’ (content created, edited and shared within a peer community rather than traditional media sources). Nokia have now released a number [...]
Nokia’s just published a set of presentations and podcasts from an event they organised that showcases the future of mobile. Talks include ‘Future energy sources for mobile communications’ and ’ Connecting smartly for the future’.
“Nokia’s approach to technology is to think not only about the technology itself, but about how it will be used and [...]
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