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Designer Sebastian Müller has caught a glimpse of the future, together with Nokia Research Center and created the Nokia Nia concept, a robotic communication device that’s very intuitive and handles all of your virtual interactions. Replacing your secretary, the device takes care of the user’s emails, text messages, calls and news.
Nokia Nia supports face recognition and provides services customized to its user’s needs, since it’s based on visual tags that increase the level of customization. This gadget will charge itself thanks to a “charging shelter”, but the main appeal of the concept is the ways you can interact with it: depending on your distance from the device, it’ll go from gesture control, to voice and touchscreen interaction.
When you enter touchscreen mode, you’ll be able to use this “robot” like a tablet PC. Nia is basically a hybrid between a robot, a PC, a phone and a RSS system.
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Well, touchscreen had met low end before, but never under Nokia branding. The Finns only have a high end device (the N97) and a music phone that can be placed on the borderline between high end and mid end, both featuring a touchscreen. But what about low end phones packing such displays?
Here’s the so-called “Nokia Ultra Low Touch” concept, a pretty basic handset with a touchscreen on board.
Notice the presence of a flashlight function and a design that reminds me of Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, but somewhat on the “iPod nano” side of things. Real or fake?
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I recently stumbled upon two videos on YouTube, showing the future of Nokia mobile devices. The first clip is a rather emotional one, portraying handsets that look a lot like the current L’amour phones, but with a more modern approach. Those futuristic phones look like MP3 players rather than handsets and they’re focused on social networking and changing looks and styling.
It seems that in the future we’ll be able to send kisses via mobile, while using location based services to let all of our friends know where we are. The second video shows a hot cameraphone, that comes with a superb, fluid, intuitive and innovative interface. Browsing images is a piece of cake, but taking a photo is now a complex process, operated via touchscreen and with the aid of a rotating camera module.
There’s another phone in the clip, resembling the Nokia 888 concept quite a lot, while in the first video there was a square handset for ladies that looked much like a makeup kit.
What do you say? Are these devices doable in lets say 4 years time?
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Although a Nokia Gun Phone would sell quite well in funny gift shops, this handset is destined to remain a concept and can be a lighter at its very best, if it becomes a real product. Imagine having to receive a call, while you’re aiming… and please tell me that this concept doesn’t feature vibrations!?
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Remember the Nokia Open concept phone? It was a quite famous design of a handset that looked like a fan and now it turns out that it is accompanied by an accessory, Nokia Open Bracelet.
This “emotive” gadget is a fashion item, a bracelet adorned by silver elements that features a tiny circular display.
The small screen lets you know who’s calling, by interfacing with the handset via Bluetooth and displaying a color-coded message. Hot colors mean that a friend/someone from your family is calling, while cold ones mean that strangers of business partners want to talk to you.
Nokia Open Bracelet’s display can also be used as a watch, or as a screen that reproduces images.
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When Nokia N96 surfaced at the beginning of this year, we made a recap of its concepts in order to see what we’ve gained and what we missed from the new device. Now, we take a look back at the N97 concept below and we see that it’s not such a hot device, mostly resembling the N95:
Things changed shortly afterwards, when we stumbled upon Nokia N98, a superb concept device (below), this Spring. At that time we were talking N Series coollness, a 7.2 megapixel camera, 5x optical zoom, a 3.5 inches touchscreen display, GPS, HSDPA and what not.
Pause! Skip a few months, witness a Nokia Tube launch and here we are: December 2nd… Nokia World 2008… Nokia N97 (pictured below) makes its triumphal debut, surpassing every expectation. It’s got a 3.5 inches touchscreen, a QWERTY keyboard, the OVI platform on board, a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss Tessar Lens and 32GB of internal memory.
Disappointed? Wanting more? What’s your take on this evolution from concept to real device?
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Just as the Nokia Tube got revealed, Nokia’s webcast dropped a pretty interesting picture, showing a touchscreen smartphone. It’s an XPERIA-like device with a swivelling screen that hides a QWERTY keyboard.
The S60 Touch will be perfect for it and we sure hope that this so-called “Touch Communicator” will be more than a concept.
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What say you? A Nokia laptop that’s voice activated and uses a scroll-style OLED display? Why, this must be gibberish talk son… or is it? Rodrigo Mercado surely thinks it’s not, since he designed this concept laptop, that’s got a bit of that beautiful Morph in it. And it’s the flexible bit I’m talking about…
Imagine sitting on a bench and suddenly rolling up your Nokia laptop… How cool is that? I’m not even going to start about the inclusion of Skype or phone functions on the device, as it’s so surreal that it might crumble at the touch of a thought. Superb design job Rodrigo!
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Designer Sebastian Müller has caught a glimpse of the future, together with Nokia Research Center and created the Nokia Nia concept, a robotic communication device that’s very intuitive and handles all of your virtual interactions. Replacing your secretary, the device takes care of the user’s emails, text messages, calls and news.
