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I like the look of it and I'd love to have a decent smartphone with a great camera for my wife (no iPhone). My nagging inner nay-sayer is probably just the geek
by darklajid 14y ago
I like the look of it and I'd love to have a decent smartphone with a great camera for my wife (no iPhone). My nagging inner nay-sayer is probably just the geek that bought into Maemo (and still wears the shirts).
That said and out of the way: Isn't Microsoft dictating quite a bit about the design features of Win7/Win8 phones? Put differently, is there enough room for design (as in, artistic, for simplicity distinguished from technical advance in this question) innovation?
The OS is outside of their control I assume. The basic form factor is a given, buttons etc. predefined. What, ignoring the tech specs and build quality, are the design features?
Or am I just misreading design over and over again as 'make it beautiful' instead of 'engineer it in a way that it works well'?
- dmix 14y agoYou're correct in that Nokia's limitation of design is in the hardware. The vast majority of the interaction is the software. That leaves primary the touchscreen, shape of the phone and maybe a button. Also, the camera. I'd say thats about ~20% of the experience of using the phone, likely less.