Ooh, now here’s an interesting thing. Not long back, Sony Ericsson were letting people come up with ideas for what they want in their smartphone, as part of the SE-dot initiative. And that’s a pretty cool idea. And now, it seems that Nokia are doing something similar, although this time, is not just about coming up with apps. No, the Design By Community site is aiming to get people to design a whole new concept phone.
It’s dead easy, too: you go onto that site, find the slidy bars (that look like the ones in the pic on this post), fiddle about with ‘em, and when a big green light pops on saying “Great”, you click submit. And then, presumably, the people on the Design By Community site will, when the whole project’s finished, knock together a design concept based on it.
Just, er, don’t expect to see it as a real production phone.
The first week’s poll is for ‘Display and user interface’, to be followed by ‘Size and shape’, then ‘Materials’, then ‘Operating system’ (that’ll be easy, it’ll either be Symbian or MeeGo… MeeGo being, of course, the new name for Maemo, as seen on the Nokia N900), then ‘Connectivity’, then ‘Camera’, and then, finally, ‘Enhancements’, for all the weird stuff that doesn’t fit anywhere else. Or, y’know, GPS. Once all that’s been collated (I love that word), then we can expect to see them bang it all together into a new concept. Which’ll be pretty cool to see, although it’s a bit of a shame the phone’s unlikely to ever make it into production.
So, yes, get yourself involved, and let’s see what new stuff you can come up with!
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