By all accounts,
Nokia's designers are either on a cutting edge so far into the future and so deeply advanced that we can't understand it, or they've all gone off their medication. The bizarre
7500 Prism (which may or may not be the
similarly styled 7900) made its debut at a Nokia fashion event in China today, along with the
8600, 8800 Sirocco,
6110 navigator,
5700 XpressMusic, 6500 classic, 6500 slider and the
3500 -- though none of them were as totally zany looking as the Prism. The phone's specs are at least fairly normal, featuring a 2 megapixel camera, microSD slot, a QVGA screen and rocking the
S40 (version 5) OS. It's unclear at this point why the company believes people will want a diamond shaped keyboard, but since the FCC has already approved this model, we'll soon learn if they really do.
posted Jul 3rd 2007 8:26PM
Nokia in the past has taken many more design chances than any other mobile phone company and well, they haven't done so great. The 7380 that looked like a voice recorder, had no numbered buttons, only a scroll wheel, comes to mind then again though someone has to make leaps like that just to see whats out there. Good design though takes everything into context, ease of use, aesthetics and market placement, its the ease of use where nokia's out of the box designs falter, and this one looks like dialing issues may be its downside.
i would disagree, kudos to Nokia for being bold: i think a phone that looks like that (if it's not ginormous) could be quite slick. definitely would get you attention when you whip it out in front of your friends, which is what to some people what it's all about.
I totally agree, im the only one with a rokr e2 where i live
and its a standout.
When i use it in public people (chics too) just come up to me to ask about the phone.