Nokia phone plus industrial design lecturer begets frankenhandset
By Sean Cooper 
posted Jun 15th 2007 4:23AM
posted Jun 15th 2007 4:23AM
Turkish industrial design lecturer Mehmet Erkök has taken a few Nokia handsets and morphed them into works of art by adding and removing bits of the original housing and keys to create new (and arguably better) handsets in the process. While we may not quite get the new aesthetic, we can appreciate the need to get under the hood of gadgets to see what makes them tick and then reassemble them with leftover beads, bits of colored plastic, and larger earpieces. If you can pick out what models these handsets may have once been, drop us a line; a before/after comparison would be fun to do.
The smaller one is a 5210, and the bigger one looks like a 5110, but I'm not 100% sure about it.
The larger one is a 3210.
the smaller one (in orange/yellow) is positively the nokia 8265. i had this phone for many years (it was my first cell phone!) and i dreaded the day i had to let it go. goodness knows i held on to it WAY past it's expiration date. now whether it's the original 8265 that lit up white, or the later that lit up blue. either way, same model number. :-D
The first one could be a 2260, looking at the backlight (blue) is my first clue. Almost 100% sure that the other is a 8390 - my first GSM phone - man, those were the days.
You know for a work created by an industrial design lecturer, you'd think that the phones would look a little less like ass. Seriously, I don't get the "strip down the phones, glue ugly shit on" aesthetic.