More Nokia (N8/E7/X7) shaped handsets from ‘other’ manufacturers. #MOTO
Touch screen devices – they all seem to be the same rectangle with rounded corners. Some more than others to the point that Apple is having their products banned. Some say there’s nothing much you can do – it’s the optimal use of space when a screen is rectangle.
Nokia went a different way with the N8 introducing tapered edges both top and bottom. This continued with the E7, X7 and some lower end devices. We even saw some potential Nokia tablets sporting that shape. For the most part, that shape was synonymous for Nokia.
Some others liked that trend. Acer’s Iconia phones and tablets looked like Nokia products. More recently, Motorola (is this a fruit of MotoGoog?) have also followed and produced their own N8 like phones and tablets (shape wise). I guess this is how they will save themselves from Apple – and Nokia hasn’t truly made this shape their own world wide yet, especially with N9 and future devices sporting side tapering (looking rectangle from front view, but tapering at side view).
Props though for making the whole phone face flush with essentially one tone (black). The N8 and E7 sometimes do look like they’re an iPhone in a case.
Do you think Nokia should have stuck with this front tapering design or do you prefer the new direction with N9 design?
Images from Engadget and This Is My Next
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N9 is superb,, But i like the E7 as well..
I think Googorola sounds better than MotoGoog
goog and magoog
(gog-magog) lol
Sounds like something that would be uttered in a Beatles song. Goo-goo gajoob.
lol it sounds funny XD
And am sick and tired of nokia naming ther phones by numbers! E.g n8,n9,c06,1800,8210,n95. You know wat i mean. Grow up! Make it simple like.iphone,samsung galaxy,ht desire. The new nokia windows phone sounds good SEARAY. Come on nokia move with the times! How would use like it if all nokia staff wer called by numbers lol. Not by ther real names. Jesus crist even dogs are given names.
what a hell you are talkin about? Like iPhone?! Iphone what? Iphone Searay, iphone arc or iphone galaxy? Apple like Nokia, use numbers in the models. 2g, 3g, 3gs and 4 and the upcoming 4shit.
they’ll eventually run out of good names, then they’ll get back to numbers. Iphone 3gs/4/5 ??? SGS 2?
all nokia phone got a name with them beside the number
u better search BUT! how cares 
all ppl call the iFail 4 call it “iPhone 4g” WTH! it has nothing to do with 4g dummies!
Yes, because Samsung Galaxy S II HD LTE just rolls off the tongue
+1
i think it wud be better if u not say about naming convention of nokia,
and wat does galaxy means to u do u even knw that how many galaxy phones are there of samsung,
u wud nt be able to remember there names also as much u have written here of nokia.
@masood akhtar and secondly u fool nokia had changed there naming convention months before and the 4 phones with that naming convention had been shipping also,
if u r a nokia hater then a shot gun in ur ass otherwise sorry and keep the brisk knwledge of what u speak.
realtechie what kind of name is that lol lol ya dumbo! lol lol sum ppl are fukt up pal lol, wait till i tell my friends abt realtechie. now fuk off.
If you want to know the name of Nokia device
simply open Z:\sys\data and there are 3 txt
file.
Open the file and you will see the device name on
the beginning of paragraph.
N8 is VASCO.
reply
HTC naming convention is GAY!
Nokia is undoubtedly the best in phone design. Any design that they come up with is just fantastic. But I prefer the more rounded C7/701 design. And it feels better in the hand too. The N8 is very slippery and non-ergonomic. But the design is cool, just cumbersome to handle. C7/701 design is perfect.
i agree. I have a C7 and Xperia arc, both has a great design. But C7 is better to handle. Even more better for people like me who sleep with phone in hands.
lol Sleep with phone in hand.. I do that sometimes for a power nap with the alarm on st-by..!!
Yeah, you might want to call the N9 “Lankku”. It’s as much an official name as “SeaRay”.
N9 design is superb than N8. Like other Indians i’m also waiting for its arrival.
If you want to know the name of Nokia device simply open Z:\sys\data and there are 3 txt file.
Open the file and you will see device name on the beginning of paragraph.
N8 is VASCO.
N9 design are the best. Nokia have more variety design unlike Samsung which all their phone are look the same.
I like the rectangular design of the N9. I’m not a big fan of the N8′s tapered edges, partially due to aesthetics, but mostly because it doesn’t serve any purpose. I think Nokia can do without it.
Nokia phone is good serves, I like this, their phone are look the same.
Xoom2=a huge X7