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An observation I have been wondering: Whenever a Windows phone is presented, there are pictures of phones that have more square corners than other phones, and
by Aardwolf 13y ago
An observation I have been wondering:
Whenever a Windows phone is presented, there are pictures of phones that have more square corners than other phones, and flashy colors like yellow and orange.
It seems to be almost a requirement of a phone with the Windows software, to have colorful and squary hardware.
Is that a coincidence, or a sort of design convention or requirement?
EDIT: Oops, apparently it does not run Windows. I saw the tiles in the screenshot and flashy colors, so thought it was Windows phone... Sorry...
- _sabe_ 13y agoI don't know if this was just a random comment or if you missed that this phone does not run windows? :)
- emilsedgh 13y agoThis is not a windows phone. It uses SailfishOS[0] which is basically a continuation of Maemo/Meego. [0] https://sailfishos.org/ https://sailfishos.org/
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- anonymfus 13y agoThis is not requerment. First generation of WP7 phones had few curvy models, but square corners was a trend already. Flashy colours were popularised by Nokia, they had similar design before switching to Windows Phone, so HTC and Huawey just copied them for WP models. Samsung Ativ S is example of curvy black WP8 phone.
- anonymfus 13y agoReturning to the topic, MeeGo based http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N9 had almost the same design as their first WP7 phone Lumia 800.
- hajile 13y agoMore like Elop came in, killed the entire MeeGo pipeline (except for the one phone they were contractually obligated to launch), and then used the MeeGo hardware to launch his WP7 stuff sooner.