My Dream Nokia #27: The Nokia Windows Phone 7 concept design with Symbian Anna grid Icons
My Dream Nokia #27 is the work of Tommi Incrosnatu of sciant.net from Finland! It looks a lot like the official Nokia concept designs for Windows Phone which is absolutely BEAUTIFUL! I love that someone has taken these designs so we can see them again in different views. What makes it so much nicer is that he’s got rid of METRO (Cry, Metro Purists!).
The lock screen stays the same, but the homescreen panel has (as seen in previous Windows Phone concepts) a background and modified tiles. These are NOT in keeping with metro’s square and bland look. They have information on them MORE than the plain numbers. I hear Metro purists screaming to leave Metro UI alone.
And then the biggest change. Goodbye ultra-list of scroll, scroll, scroll! (To be fair, even with a lot of apps installed, 80 to be exact, the max scroll to get to one end is 3. That would be a similar affair on Symbian or maemo with that much apps). The positive thing about lists (especially alphabetical ones) you WILL always find your app, even if you’re a newbie to the phone as you’re not digging around folders (e.g. Symbian). This would be helped significantly if the search button acted appropriately instead of going to bing. With grids, over time you do get used to the grid placement.
I think maybe perhaps give the users a choice? Put the default list view with option for grid (my older uncles/aunts would love the massive text), maybe even an extra option to have grid view alphabetically like Maemo 5 (in one of the app mods). I think something like this will help the transition to WP. Would it alienate potential Nokia Windows Phone users that have expectations of Metro (not that there are that many). I hope this is not too much of a change that would affect updates. I don’t want repeats of Symbian updates or worse, be the Samsung of mobile phone updates (which is LATE on every platform, Symbian, Windows Phone, Android).
WINDOWS 7 PHONE CONCEPT
So Nokia’s Symbian is bitter sweet history and Windows 7 phone is the next big thing? I like to think so. The Windows 7 phone is really great, but the Metro UI alone doesn’t quite cut it for me. I certainly hope that we’ll see some scandinavian quality design in Nokia’s phones. This feeling inspired me to add some Finnish look and feel by pimping the Metro tiles a bit and adding those lovely ANNA -icons. I also dropped out those redundant hardware keys from the phone, I think we all know by now that multitouch gestures work well.
Oh I thought the back and search button was just off. No they’re gone. I liked them oddly enough. Back lets you quickly go back or resume the previous task. Search will search contextually most of the time (within phonebook, market place, though needs much more attention)
Cheers Concept Phones for the tip!
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ooooh……….
looking just gr8
every gadget geek like me will definitely love this
Amazing Amazing !!! Send this to Nokia execs…..Brilliant way to mashup Symbian nd WinPho7 !!!!!
Looks very nice!
I don’t believe for a second that anything like this will ever be done, but I love the concept.
I do not get what he says there though:
“I also dropped out those redundant hardware keys from the phone, I think we all know by now that multitouch gestures work well.”
Is there back and search multitouch gestures in WP7?
Before any Metro UI fan opens their mouths, I would like to ask them one question:
As we know, desktop Windows OS appearance can be customized according to personal preferences.
How on Earth this must not be allowed in Wíndows phones, even though they are much more personal and individual devices than desktop computers are?
iphone is akways better
wrong forum buddy !!
definitely the wrong forum, its interesting how your trolling goes as far as to come to other websites to hate
Its lovely , nokia should deliver this kind a stuff .
A very good try. Add folders and it will be even better. It’s a nightmare to have hundreds of icons all on the same folder. There would be no problem for the novice user, who has just 20 icons and folders “confuse” him, as there would be no folders on the menu in the first place. But advanced users should be able to add them. With no restrictions on depth and contents.
I agree that folders is nice to have in this kind of use case. But I did find that the long list view in WP has been pretty well implemented, probably not so much for the user with a 1,000 apps though. But I could get used to it.
wow very nice!
looks like HTC
SexSexySex, Looks great!
Hmmm…looks Nice…could Nokia bring something more better than this?
The metro UI does not look good. I hate it so much that I will not buy a phone with it.
This on the other hand.. looks good.
I use a Maemo based phone now and I’m really happy with it. I like the look of all the icons.. also the icons in the media player. Looks kind of cool and elegant at the same time.
I’ve also tested a N8, and I like the look and feel of that tool. But if I had a choice my new phone would be Maemo/MeeGo based. Money is not an option here.
A souped up Nokia N900 would be great. Larger and more high res screen. Larger keyboard with 4 lines, compatible to the Nokia bluetooth keybords. Speedier multi core CPU and a faster GPU. A video out is a must of course. Better battery life is always better and something I would pay for. And it would need to have the Nokia build and call quality. I notice that especially the torrent app use a lot of CPU and memory to run when I have multiple large downloads. I download about 1-3 gigabytes a day on the wireless network in average.
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yeah~That’s what i hope to see in wp7.Retain the apps personality in the WP Shortcut Tiles.
But this design look alike HTC One X.