Nokia N9 – The most powerful Nseries EVER!(?)
Nokia conversations posted an article to discuss the new naming convention given the newly announced Cseries.
- Nseries – Flagship, high end multimedia
- Eseries – Enterprise, business
- Xseries – Music
- Cseries – Core nokia portfolio
What’s really interesting is the explanation of the numbers.
What’s more, within each series of devices, we’re seeing a new range of numbers, from 1 to 9, each signifying the range of functionality on offer, and the approximate prices of the devices – 1 being the lowest and 9 being the highest.
So 9 will have the most functionality, 1 will have the ‘least’. There’s already a rumoured N8 which doesn’t leave much room if only N9 is left for “higher functionality”.
Imagine if someone confused an uBer powerful Nokia N9 for a Nokia C9 or X9 or E9. -_-
Here’s my little RANT on Nokia naming convention: (part of a bigger rant: http://bit.ly/5LWGBC)
I think Cseries > NUMBERS (might as well be a barcode)Ideally for naming conventions (especially for flagship[s]) they should have a NAME!Build on the reputation of that NAME with future models.e.g. Pre – Pre Pluse.g. (Possibly with Nexus two)e.g. iPhone – 3G – 3GS. Different phones but reputation keeps improving despite previous phone’s misgivings.even N95 – N95 8GBThough I’m still wanting a simple 2 syllable NAME (at least for the flagship). It needs to roll of the tongue like melted butter. Something easily pronounced, something MEMORABLE.Codes- e.g. Nseries N97/N79/N96/N95/N93, so easy for geeks/bloggers/tech peeps but not so for your average consumer.N96 has NOTHING to do with N97. N96 isn’t completely superior to the N95. There is no obvious growth that you’re building on something previous. Each new Nseries, you really don’t know what you’re getting.Previous RANT on Nokia naming:Looking forward to the N9 eNnineBuild on reputation, expand the number of people that know about that model (it may be a different device but same moniker will make mind share penetration easier)
HTC Legend, Desire, Hero, Dream… it’s easier to remember! Nokia C5, X9, N97…pfff please nokia, give some humanity to your devices! Give them a name and stop to change it everyear!
You’re right, that’s another aspect to it – very ‘clinical’ cold way of naming when phones are supposed to be ‘social’ for connecting ‘people’. These codes don’t mean anything where as something like Hero/Legend already equates to something quite awesome.
Those names say nothing about phone. Hero, Legend is confusing in the same way as N95 or N96 but at least numgers can say about features line of the phone.
i think nokia is good with naming.. x9, c5, n8…….
i dont like HTC names.. like legend, dream, nightmare, balls, crap, guts, nuts……
Finally the name of the device is Nokia C5-00
http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-c5-00
great nokia, great…
Oh dear…
Nokia are stuck in some perplexing paradigm where code monikers are easier to remember than a SIMPLE name.
I don’t want silly poncy girls names that Sony Ericsson gives to their phones.
Short – memorable – catchy – maybe with a meaning but not essential.
Until they do that, the whole handset reputation just boils down to being a Nokia. Which is great and all, but there are so many low end devices, it just equates Nokia to cheap/value not innovative/pioneering. Ok for budget phones, but not the mid, and certainly NOT flagships.
Logically names don’t boost the sales of a product but wrong/bad names has been proven to hurt sales.
I personally don’t care about the name but i desperately need Nokia to give me some exciting hardware running symbian.
Hi Gordon. I may be being terribly naive…there’s so many other things Nokia needs doing…(Exciting hardware looks to be coming if rumors are to be believed)….sorting out a good product name is just one of them.
Name is a part factor to what contributes to a great handset that will sell. ‘perfect’ combination of hardware and software is paramount for market share.
A good name to build a legacy on is mind share. You build a brand upon a brand which can give people the confidence to buy your/Nokia’s product if they know about the reputation of the subgroup product.
Nokia as a brand has an inconsistent reputation across their brand and service range. Some good, some bad. A sub rand is a way of kinda making a fresh start. Nokia did this a little with Nseries – it was a sign of excellence. But then they diluted it with the random handsets like N78, N85, N96 and N97 which put a lot of people off (especially the latter two, even Nokia admitted failures of N97)
I guess my beef is more about having a name to build a legacy on and so a reputation. Each time there’s a new product name, the past reputation is wiped clean sort of. e.g. N95 – reputation gone. Name stopped being able to penetrate through the masses because the next model was there to discuss.
That’s not good when you had a really good device beforehand. The numbers don’t make any immediate obvious meanings.
woops..this rant is going off quite too long…ok.
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bad Design , bad Specifications , nokia why ???
where is the :
1- •OS: meego
2- •Camera: 12 MP, 4000×3000 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, Xenon flash, 1/1.83” sensor size, ND filter, geo-tagging, face and smile detection, video capture 720p@25fps, LED video light
•Video Call : 2 MP with flash
3- •Screen: Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors, QWERTY keyboard, Multi-touch input method, Proximity sensor for auto turn-off, Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate, Scratch-resistant surface, Touch sensitive controls
4- internal memory : 32 or 64GB
5- All Specifications in N8
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The First MeeGo Operating System In Nokia N9
Full Detailed Specification at http://www.techmazter.com/2010/12/first-meego-operating-system-in-nokia.html
MeeGo is a joint venture by the leading Smart Phone manufacturer Nokia and famous microprocessor manufacturer Intel. The Nokia N9 may be the first Smart Phone by Nokia working on MeeGo Operating System. It is almost similar to Nokia N8 and Nokia E7 in design and structure. The Nokia N9 has a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor and 512MB RAM and 1GB ROM gives great navigation in the device and video streaming when compared to other Smart Phones.
What happened to this post? It was made in like, november/december 2010, but it has just appeared on the front page like a breaking new article?
March actually. And it shouldn’t be appearing on the front page, just another newer post that links back to this.