My Dream Nokia #40: Nokia Touch and Type True with Symbian Belle, Portrait QWERTY slider concept.
We got sent this a few days ago but I missed it due to the mountain of revision I was under (I missed a lot of the emailed tips, soz guys).
My Dream Nokia #40 is by reader, FireDragon. It’s quite a classy design, no? And quite amazing since it’s from the C2-06 range though now with a centre button only. Just goes to show the effort in design put in to even the cheaper series.
It sports Symbian Belle (first MDN in a while with Symbian) and a QWERTY portrait slide out keyboard.
Here’s what FireDragon said:
What all I want is:
- a full gorgeous screen to enjoy my movies or games
- to display images or photos to clients or friends
- to do a manageable productive internet browsing
- a camera that I could at least scan a business card with readable contents
- a beautiful well-designed device
- and above of all to type very very fast as accurate as I could type.
And I want that handset to slip into my pocket and it disappears, not to mention an economical handset if possible.
With trusted portrait qwerty keyboard layout (although I wanted to have cursor keys in the keyboard too, hence optical trackpad has been added) under the large screen (compare to Asha 303 or E72/E6-type) user can enjoy both side of modern mobility.
What is wrong with landscape slider? I found them annoying and disturbing especially during meetings or during traveling when one cannot use both hands to type (ie standing in bus or train) or simply holding a bag in a hand while you have to type in a message or email. Point to be note that I am not saying that landscape slider are a total waste, I like them but on-screen landscapes are almost as good as physical with the price of extra but manageable typos.
Currently I have no option other than having two different devices, which I cannot always keep with me while I am out so my on-the-go productivity rate is not as good as it should be, or how it used to be only a couple of years ago using Sony Ericsson P1i.
My concept is based on above criteria, staying in reality and without breaking any records in specs. This should be a practical device for serious freelancer or showbiz business type users.
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Absolutely marvellous! I’d have a hard time between this and the N8 successor…
That’s my dream Nokia since N96.
A very reasonable design and specs. With those specs there is no reason it couldn’t be put into manufacture quite quickly.
Thanks and yes I tried to design concepts based on reality of right now, not the reality of distant-future. Concept of tablet I made 3 years ago now becoming reality as Asus Slider.
The first concept I “write” years ago (and sent to Sony Ericsson) came out after year and half as Sony Ericsson P1i and that is why I am so loving it because down to the very last detail it is everything I wanted to have and it absolutely does it all. No other handset come close to that level in all these years.
Can you design the same concept with Nokia 5610 model?
The one with the slider? I can give it a try.
yes it was a fantastic design and if possible select red color model.
Land me some contact or email, or in touch with me on to facebook so I will be able to show you the concept when I will finish with it.
http://www.facebook.com/nomasla is my id.
This is fantastic, man..
Elop, are you watching this?? Or are you ‘Elop’ing away from Symbian!!?
Hi. Great design and legendary effort.You did mention u made many phones and sent to manufacture and those phones got market shelves. Tell me how i can send concept to manufacurers to make them real phone.
Thanks and hello. Well I did design several concepts and post here and there and on to my own site. A few I sent to companies – Sony Ericsson, Nokia and Archos to be exact. Archos make tablets.
Sony Ericsson P1i is one model that I wrote concept in very detail and sent to Sony Ericsson back in days when they had launch P910. Now I don’t know if they actually worked on that concept, it was just words, a long list of functions and features and detail of look and so on. But P1i is down to the very details to concept and I am still using it to date. I don’t know where I put that original document, it must be in one of my older harddrives. But people who read that article (and made fun of me) put their thumbs in their mouth when I showed the new shiny P1i.
Another thing that I public was Symbian^3′s list of changes and many of those changes happened during the time. I did sent that document to Nokia too and it is still on my website.
A concept of Tablet I made for Archos is turning reality too. Again I cannot say it is because of my concept. There are great minds working much harder work out there.
Several other concepts that I draw/design/sketch/wrote-down and never made it public was came to be later and it made me slap myself why I didn’t public it just to be a proof. One was Android’s very first UI.
About sending these to companies, well I searched out their emails or other way to contact them such as their own official email forms. It is just a chance. Again I cannot say that any of those things that came to market was because of me. Yes it did give me confident that what I draw or think wasn’t a complete waste. It is a motivation to continue to do what I can do and try harder to get it noticed.
Love this… it’s like a return to E-Series phones.
I would add 1080p video support and the BCM2763 GPU, AF for the back camera, and NFC
And maybe 64GB internal storage
Amazin! Very nice “Concept”!
Looks like a BB Torch….pass.
The problem with human mind is, it is very good and it let us see what we want to see and we often doesn’t see how things actually are.
Above lines I said because I can give you many differences between BlackBerry Torch and this one.
Form factor, same yes. Design, not same at all. Put the two together (in pictures) you will obviously see the differences specially at the down part. If you don’t see the differences then I can list you alike devices from various brands and I know them because I want a handset like that so I keep an eye out for these.
Second, price issues. BlackBerry could be well over 50,000 Pakistani Rupees, while if Nokia 603 (almost the same specs as my concept) is easily available under 22,000 Pakistani Rupees. BlackBerry in same form, I will not buy, something like above, I will jump right at the moment.
Nokia doesn’t have any of this device in their portfolio as for this moment, there are portrait sliders but with number-pad, not qwerty keyboard.
The above concept is not my own design (obviously). The used pieces are taken from Nokia’s own latest devices. The main body is Nokia C2-06 (black), the keyboard is from Asha 303, the track-pad is from E6.
Thanks, Jay and guys for posting it and feedbacks. At the bottom, it is not a button, it is a track-pad, Jay.
nice the phone looks awesome, but if this is a track-pad and not a button how can you access to the multitask ? Belle do need a menu button
We can put a menu button on the side. Buttons at side works as good as buttons on the front.
I use that application I cannot recall the name, Menu4you for some title like this that offers swipe to go to menu and to goto switch applications, so I hardly use menu button anymore on N8.
Nice concept. Seems like design is inspired from C2-03, which is somewhat thick model. Wish a slimmer would be great.
C2-06 to be exact, with Asha303 Keyboard
Yes, C2-02 , C2-03 , and C2-06 all have same physical design. Waiting for Nokia 5610 version
Perfect concept!!! This is basically a Nokia Asha 303 successor with Symbian Belle. If they came out with this one I’ll buy it in a heartbeat!!
Lets hope Nokia is tracking it.
I will buy one, or perhaps two in a blink.
I’m still sad that Nokia didn’t offer the X5-01 in Europe, that was a similar concept with older hardware and software. I liked it and would have bought it.
That said, great work and hope they would pick it up some day..
This is better than all the Asha series. Luv it
Thanks, Buddy. I actually love Asha303 and the series is very good for simple phone users. That form factor was missed out from market or ignored for lust of fullscreen keyboardless devices, but in developing countries this Asha series will do great job in long term business.
The concept is more toward Type & Touch series as name said. And is touching the range of mid-range smartphones market.
If its a touch screen, why do we need optical track-pad…?
It could help in games, it really help navigating even on the touchscreens, specially when we talk about one hand operation then cursur controler or trackpad is the best option.
Most of all, trackpad will be most helpful in typing either onscreen or physical keyboard, pointing the cursor is nightmare without it when the text is larger than 4 lines, there is no way to go up or down line by line and capacitive screens are not accurate in detecting point so it added frustration with very fast and random selections or moves.
Cure to all that is simple trackpad, or d-pad.
Depends what OS you’re used to. Some are very accurate at detecting not just what line but to what letter
Haha. True that. But we are talking about Symbian and at this moment I am not sure how Belle is handling it but with Anna and before it, on to N8, it is not a good sight.
Is not one of the drawback(lack of precision) of using capacitive touch compare to resistive touch?. wen the screen size is 3.2inch trackpad will be fast and accurate in selection of word than pure touch on any os.
I especially love the trackpad.
I don’t like smudgy screens, and this would be the perfect way to navigate without having to clean the screen every so often.
Maybe even make it a physical D-pad.
Just awesome
send that to nokia maybe they will use it.. it’s simply great.. better than other shit they making
)))))
they are out of ideas, they need some creative young people not old fosils
Support it with good enough feedback and sure I will send it over there with confident of all of you, which is already overwhelming.
I cannot thanks enough for every single word everyone is saying about it.
Really wonderful concept.. The should have released with this design. A reasonable 3.2″ touch screen with a qwerty keyboard..
BTW, is the screen with a nHD resolution? Not sure if the screen in design has the narrowness associated with 16:9 ratio screen. Personally I would like it to be the VGA resolution of the E6 but in portrait orientation as the landscape would make the phone look like the X5-01.
The SE P1i was one of my fav too but I liked P900\910 more because of their uniqueness with the physical keyboard..
I love the P-series all of them from very first to very end and I am user of two. P1i I am still using it. All my articles and concept writeups, including concept logo sketch I do on to it. My handwriting was improved slightly because of P1i or else ever since I left the education part of life, I hardly write using a pen, and on to P1i, it was more fast and easy to “write”, even still I do that.
no trackpad please we don’t want the BB torch or Palm Pre Loook if symbian where to get the Swipe UI added then BAM perfect
Notifications like Meego on symbian sleep screen
Well, personally I would LOVE to re-arrange the keyboard layout and add Direction and Tab keys within the keys but for now I used Nokia’s signature keyboard layout all the E7x users are used to.
palm pre killer. oh wait, palm pre is just died
Very nice and interresting concept, physical and virtual keyboards, or just physical ?
bluetooth too of course ?
All the regular things that comes standard now with a good Symbian Belle device along with Virtual keyboards too and the physical as well.
I could dump my E72 for this one, really .
i can’t post mine ( why ?
why i don’t see my post
omg, i love the design, i wish nokia would make a phone exaclty like this one but use s40 operating system instead (no offence). tsk tsk sometimes i wonder if nokia is listening to the consumer’s thoughts of phone design and features
Thank you, I appreciate your words.
I too wonder if they do that, although recently they did show that they are “listening” so let’s hope for good.
Excellent concept! I would ditch my N9 for that. Having had a device without a physical keyboard for a couple of months, I totally wanna go back to keyboards, but then to QWERTYs – something like what you proposed, with sensible specs and hopefully not overpriced…
I understand the need of keyboard. I have been using N8 and while I am ok with it but I seriously need to get a physical keyboard. Personally I didn’t feel the qwerty landscape sliders will make me as much happy as the portraits. Let see…
Interesting! I was going back and forth in my mind about whether landscape or portrait would be better. I imagine that typing on a landscape is simpler? Or is the haptic feedback already enough to justify a portrait qwerty (in your experience)?
I saw that BB is advertising that some of their devices have both the physical and the virtual keyboard – so if you just wanna type “ok” quickly, you don’t need to slide out the physical keyboard, the virtual keyboard would be popping out first, I guess. Sounds reasonable – but do you have any thoughts on/experience with that?
I am not aware of BB advertises you mention above but if this is what they are saying, it is exactly what I experienced and I think I write with the concept too.
I am a Major Sony Ericsson P1i user, major because I am still using it since it was out in market for the first time. I tried landscape sliders, full screen devices, N8 is my second regular handset I now use alongside P1i.
I always feel much comfortable with portrait keyboards for one reason, I can use it with one hand. For landscape there are always two hands required. Of course to type fast on portrait keyboards you do need both hands to type but for small things, like quick notes or short text or email reply, punching the web address or just pushing contact information or a task/to do entry, portraits are fine.
Specially on-the-go situation I find portrait physical keyboards are more useful to me because on them user can type blindly with accuracy.
This is how I feel. For users who do typing in shortcut languages might have a different point of view and this is where the Option of having almost-all-in-one type solution came into play.
This is an article I did back in days when I was moving to N8 – or I thought I was. It is about typing on virtual keyboard vs physical keyboard.
http://www.nomasla.net?p5005
cool – a good read. There were some aspects that I hadn’t thought of before, e.g. that going back to physical keyboards actually puts soe stress on your fingers… well, still, going back feels like a good thing to me
Let’s see whether Nokia has something like your concept in stock…
Haha. Thanks and yes I never thought of stressing on fingers until after several weeks of using N8 (for typing purpose) and returning to P1i. Returning to physical is a good thing that is for sure but it is just temporary side-effect I felt.
Amazing Concept, i would dump my wave3 for this, beautiful look, i wanna have this, when it’ll launch.Its looks resembles to BB torch littlebit, what exactly i want.I asked smthng like this from nokia, but unavailable,, really want this, waiting fr it, hope fr coming soon.I want this.
Thanks. Well we can only hope Nokia would do something, I will take it in a breath as well. Thank you again for your words.
SELL ME THIS PHONE
Very good site you have here but I was wondering if you knew of any community forums that cover
the same topics discussed in this article?
I’d really like to be a part of group where I can get opinions from other experienced people that share the same interest. If you have any suggestions, please let me know. Appreciate it!