Awesome Nokia Evolution infographic.
Check out this super cool Nokia Evolution infographic.
This got tweeted to me by Maksim Elistratov @BST_1,
I think N95 (for 2006) is missing. N9 should technically come after 808 in terms of design – that’s my favourite Nokia design out of all of them so far (sleek obsidian monoblock with no buttons and swipe!)
Loving the 20?? placement for the flexible device. Can Nokia ever bring that to marker quickly enough and make it relevant?
Source: my-nokia.livejournal.com
Cheers @BST_1, for the tip!
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Wow, amazing trip down the memory lane. Thanks to whomever made this!
I’ve actually used all of those with the exception of the future device and the second phone on the list.
Have you played with their demo device? It’s real fun to play with though I’m not sure about practicality of it.
I have a replica cityman from Nokia where the N97 goes inside it. lol.
I saw the demo device at Nokia World 2012, but there was a crowd so I didn’t actually bend it.
Typo: Nokia World 2011.
you were at Nokia World 2011?
Did I see you?
Unless it happened in some drunken stupor we’ve both forgotten, I don’t think so.
I’ve been attending Nokia Worlds and thus it is pretty sad to see this year not getting the same treatment, just some watered down series of meet-ups maybe.
Well, I’m “keeping my mind open”…
N9 should be in the graph…
Its the world’s first full touch screen phone, with swipe UI
Including everything would have made it too long. I think the 2110 would have deserved a place far more than N9, but I think it is logical it wasn’t included because there is a certain logic to the list.
The N97 should be there since it had some real impact on the Symbian and it’s future. It was also supposed to be really innovative and revolutionary handset.
I think N9 had several buttons on it’s sides so it’s not operated only with the touch screen. It doesn’t matter where the buttons are if the device has some buttons.
What are you talking about, clueless again, srsly.
One of the biggest know-it-alls when you’ve no good reason to be.
Why don’t you try closing your mouth for a change?
I’ll give you an example. Just try to look for the power button on the N9. Now that’s a button residing on that phone.
Please, just take one look at the phone you are talking about.
Yeah and? You said “several buttons”…
Of course it’s got a few buttons….
Volume & power are essential, heck even 1x more shutter button would be nice.
The big shift is that it doesn’t have buttons for interacting with the UI.*
That’s what the OP was taking about when he said full touch-screen ph.
It’s not a hard concept to understand…
*unless you want them to
3 is several.
Volume is part of the UI. Locking the screen with the power button is an UI thing. Now you can draw the line somewhere and claim it’s the first one without buttons but it has some buttons no matter whatever people claim. That’s because it’s not touch screen only.
Dropping some specific buttons may render the device less usable. In my opinion the N9 lost some serious usability just because it lacks something I would like to use.
Please, you’re really just being pedantic now.
UI interaction on Android/iOS/etc requires more than just sometimes using the volume or power buttons.*
For all intents & purposes, interaction with the N9′s UI IS touch-screen only.
Extending it any further would be rather tricky without killing some usability.
I’d certainly like to to see others try though, so long as it was practical.
“Dropping some specific buttons may render the device less usable. ”
Agreed, 2-stage shutter button would’ve been nice.
There are workarounds for it, but not perfect.
“In my opinion the N9 lost some serious usability just because it lacks something I would like to use.”
Meaning???
*One rarely has to turn the phone off or on anyway.
And you don’t NEED the power button to exit LPM or lock the screen
I’m just stating the obvious. If there is buttons, it’s not touch creen only. It’s not about touching buttons more or less often on some another phone. If you have to press a button one single time, well, it’s not touch screen only.
It’s not so bad that it’s not completely button free. As you told us they already crossed the line where leaving buttons out makes the device less usable. We may have different tastes what it comes to buttons. You would like to have that one and I would like to have something else.
The N9 is a nice tech demo but it’s not as usable as some Android device or maybe something else you can get from Nokia. It’s hard to get any objective opinions about that since less than one million of those were sold.
His point was removal of navigation buttons as part of the UX makes it full touch-screen or pretty damn close in a practical sense.
If you still don’t get that, well, there’s no helping you.
["As you told us they already crossed the line where leaving buttons out makes the device less usable."]
Yes if there’d been follow-up devices as planned, perhaps some/all would’ve included that button, we’ll never know.
It’s certainly not omitted because the UX guidelines dictate that.
["You would like to have that one and I would like to have something else."]
What “something else” are you referring to?
["The N9 is a nice tech demo but it’s not as usable as some Android device or maybe something else you can get from Nokia."]
Funny, I’m finding it just as usable as my other devices.
Again, nothing in the way of specifics… You’ve not used this device heavily or at all have you.
["It’s hard to get any objective opinions about that since less than one million of those were sold."]
Oh that’s right, you’re one of those users who claims to know how many are sold when we don’t even have proper data to infer real figures.
Even worse: who tries to use how bad it’s sold as “proof” of how bad it & it’s lineage would be, even w/a entirely different history over the past 16mth.
Never mind actually owning/using the device for any extended period…
Even Elop has said it’s not fair to do an apples-to-apples sales comparison.
But nah, that won’t stop you apparently….
this is stupid.. you want to compare apples with apples
but really you are comparing apples with oranges or such
yes they are both fruit and are both round.. but they have completely different tastes and can be used in cooking in different ways
N9 does not require a button for you to go to homescreen, or to go to multi task screen, or to unlock etc
if you prefer to have a home button because you dont know how to navigate a phone and need certain buttons to tell you where to go.. then thats ur own preference
if you arent able to adapt to simple technology which suggests you to just simply swipe means you just arent intellectually capable of learning basic gestures
yes the N9 has buttons.. but these buttons arent required to use or to navigate the phone
but once again, if you like apples you like apples
@toki
Not sure why you’re addressing me with this post.
I’ve been making a similar point to you.
Which is, the N9 is a touch-screen only phone, or as close as any phone comes in a practical sense.
Lord US was originally trying to say it’s not at all.
Perhaps you accidentally replied to me?
I wouldn’t say it’s a superior approach, some people are more comfortable with a button for navigation.
I personally think it is a better approach, but that doesn’t make it true for everyone.
Toki,
Yeah, it’s actually very unconfortable if you have lots of applications open. Or if you can’t handle very abstract thinking. I have lots of open applications and I can handle the abstract stuff.
Swiping just isn’t so natural. Can’t think that many objects I swipe to change the tool I use. With a tool I mean application and in N9 swiping is a kind of changing the tool. I don’t definitely swipe if I read a book or a magazine. I just turn the page and that’s it.
Just too messy after the taskman screen is full you have to move around with it just to see what open applications you’ve got.
Riiiight….
“I don’t definitely swipe if I read a book or a magazine. I just turn the page and that’s it. ”
Apps which require excessive swiping lock swipes from the edge.
That ensures no accidental closing or returning to the task switcher.
It can be disabled though, as it’s rarely needed once you get used to the concept of swipe from the edge to middle+.
But you’ve never used it so you wouldn’t know all that.
“after the taskman screen is full you have to move around with it just to see what open applications you’ve got.”
Wow that’s such a powerful criticism.
Once you have heaps of apps open you have to “move around”, man that’s so terrible.
Never mind that you can see the apps you have open more easily than most other OS’s in existence.
You CONSTANTLY criticize something you’ve not used, yet you still claim you’re rational/non-biased? Wow.
Jeff,
Yeah, you really seem to know what I like. Arrogance like that got Nokia where it’s today.
You didn’t list what you like…
You listed a bunch of made-up criticisms because you haven’t used it.
Very different to listing things you like/prefer.
Jeff,
Now you seem to have the best possible knowledge about what I have used. I really hope you don’t work for Nokia.
Well, if you’ve used it you can’t have been paying too much attention.
Everyone should take your opinions with a massive grain of salt…
You’ve shown that you’re happy to make-up stuff or talk about stuff you don’t know about, just to re-enforce your agenda.
When Nokia introduced the N-Gage some people told them it had several flaws. They just told those people that they have the superior knowledge about what people like to use.
You’re introducing a straw-man argument here, but I expect that concept to be lost on you.
Believe what you will, go on making-up stuff if you want, seems it makes you feel better inside.
Yeah, you really seem to have the best possible knowledge about what I have used.
You seem to be a bit slow, so let me explain again.
As I’ve already highlighted….
It’s likely you haven’t used it heavily because of how clueless your criticisms are.
Your criticisms are often factually wrong, I’ve already pulled you up on a few.
So no, it’s not a matter of me presupposing what you like or use.
It’s just matter of me correcting FUD that you seem to enjoy spreading.
Yeah, sure.
Agree. N9 should be in Lumia position. World’s firs all touch screen, gesture-centric mobile phone.
Keen on the 20?? flexible phone
Also the uber awesome N95 with dual slider
Another reason the N9 should be there is because without it, the 2011 innovation appears to be nothing!
umm.. all touch screen? N900?
Good point, N900 should definitely be there, it was a clear departure from anything they’d done.
Sadly they didn’t stay “full steam” on that train hard enough, & soon enough.
It’s also utterly bizarre that the N9 isn’t there…
But it doesn’t surprise me, they can’t have it stealing any limelight from the 1st (supposedly) real WP.
N900 has the keyboard, but I agree it belongs on there
That’s not the point, the UX was a very big departure from anything they’d done.
If they’d started to build on that more aggressively, & done it slightly earlier.
(the retooling for Qt added enough complexities on it’s own!)
Then M-H could’ve been delivered 9mth earlier, & it probably would’ve been as feature-packed/stable at launch as PR1.0 M-H was.
That would’ve made all the difference between continuing on that path, or abandoning it last February.
The fact that the progenitor had a keyboard was/is irrelevant.
Lumia has better chances for succeeding. It has more support from the major development houses and it’s much easier to use.
The N8 may please the Linux community and those who think that any fluent UI made by Nokia is great.
You really have no freaking idea do you…
His post wasn’t about the LT feasibility of maemo/meego/n9 & successors.
He merely felt from a historical perspective, that it belongs in this infographic.
But you’ve got your head so far up your arse that you have to turn it into a debate about why WP/Lumias are more feasible.
No shit they are now, they better be….
“The N8 may please the Linux community”
WTF are you smoking….
“and those who think that any fluent UI made by Nokia is great.”
UI’s can be appreciated by people w/o agendas or partisans views.
They can be appreciated simply because they’re good.
It seems that any UI made by Nokia with some smooth animations is considered great. This may be because some of the old ones were so jerky that anything after those seems to be better.
People are looking at the UI but very little in addition.
And yet you can’t elaborate in technical detail what you’re taking about.
Just generalisations as usual, starting to doubt whether you’ve ever heavily used one.
I seem to recall MeeGo being widely lauded last year* primarily “because” of it’s UX.
It was criticised for a host of other reasons, one of the biggest being: “it’s dead”.
But the UX was very rarely one of the main sore points.
Sure it doesn’t use “smoothness inducing” transition effects to the same degree as WP.
And sometimes there’s real slow-downs (slightly more than my WP), & there’s other flaws/inconsistencies.
But that’s to be expected given that the team’s now downsized almost 100% since Feb 2011.
What they’ve achieved with the limited resources they’ve had, is pretty impressive.
Even WP fans can acknowledge that it’s UX is good:
http://mynokiablog.com/2012/06/01/windows-phone-notification-central-concept/
There’s been many such articles @MNB & elsewhere that concede WP can learn a thing or two from M-H.
It goes both ways of course, M-H needs much better use of transitions for a start.
*by MANY sites with VERY different biases.
It’s better to point out one thing at a time. Anything else may be a distraction.
Some people liked the MeeGo and that’s just great. It’s a very good system for some people. Now what I don’t understand is why so many people take it as an insult if someone doesn’t like it. That’s hardly the case what it comes to the users of the leading ecosystems like the Android.
Maybe it’s just some kind of an inferiority complex? A desperate need to show the world that Nokia was able to make an UI not inferior to the other ones.
["It’s better to point out one thing at a time. Anything else may be a distraction."]
So yeah, mostly generalisations & very light on specifics.
Because you don’t really have any heavy experience with it.
["That’s hardly the case what it comes to the users of the leading ecosystems like the Android.
Maybe it’s just some kind of an inferiority complex?"]
I would say that’s not a fair characterisation at all.
You will get people with the same need to defend a platform they like, everywhere.
["A desperate need to show the world that Nokia was able to make an UI not inferior to the other ones"]
For me personally the UI isn’t even the most appealing aspect.
That’s not why I try to counter your points…
["Now what I don’t understand is why so many people take it as an insult if someone doesn’t like it."]
It’s just that your supposedly more virtuous criticisms are rarely rooted in a in-depth understanding.
For you it seems like knowing/appreciating it, is miles behind ensuring that your words relay a big “stay away” sign to others.
That seems to be the primary motive/goal, which is genuinely sad.
There’s others who do the same as you, but do so towards WP/Other.
That’s lame & I wish they’d stop, but they won’t sadly, it’s a common human trait.
You missed the point.
The N9 is an unproven device what it comes to selling it. It will probably remain that way. It’s very understandable if someone wants to brag with a superphone that could have changed the world.
Sure, it may be hard to understand why someone just doesn’t like it.
["The N9 is an unproven device what it comes to selling it. It will probably remain that way."]
That’s right, leave it at that…
Don’t try to say it could never have sold better by using it’s current situation as proof.
Had the strategy been different, there’s too many unknowns/variables to make any kind of prediction.
["It’s very understandable if someone wants to brag with a superphone that could have changed the world."]
No bragging here, just countering those that wish to spread FUD for irrational reasons.
So long as you don’t do that, you won’t ever hear from me…
["Sure, it may be hard to understand why someone just doesn’t like it."]
No problems there AT ALL….
There’s things I don’t like about WP, & I sometimes point them out.
But I don’t make it a pattern of behaviour that seeks to utterly debase it.
All the best.
Seems that you don’t like it when someone tells the emperor has no clothes.
That’s MeeGo.
Nah I’ve no problem with criticism, that’s healthy & welcomed.
FUD from those with ulterior motives is what I have problem with.
That’s you
It’s really easy to label critisism as a FUD.
Sorry.
It’s not a blanket labelling…
I’ve been specific about what you do that’s FUD & what you do that isn’t.
Now it’s up to you to be genuine in your character, I have my doubts.
I wrote that the N9 has several buttons and because of that it’s not touch screen only.
Ugh, reading comprehension fail…
Sorry, not going to spell it all out for you again.
You’ll have to crack the code on your own :-/
It’s you who is trying to get something.
8110 was the matrix phone and The Mobira Cityman 150, Nokia’s NMT-900 mobile phone before GSM phones.
Good point. 8110 was indeed the Matrix phone, although with the 7110 slide trigger that did not ship in the production 8110.
My 7110 trigger broke two or three times, was warranty fixed, only to break again soon.
Finally I just gave up on the trigger.
It was cool while it lasted though. 7110′s rollerkey was nice too.
i called 7110 a “tennismaila” thats fin for tennis racket.
Didn’t the 7110 have this fun table tennis game too, built-in? Using the roller to control? Or do I mix up devices…
yes tennis was there
Ah yes, the 7110 did have quite unique games (for the time) thanks to the roller and “higher”-res screen.
I think the game was called “Racket”. That was a nice game btw. You can make the ball spin. Hit the ball the right time to get the angle you want then when the ball touches the other side keep on scrolling on one direction, Up makes the ball curve up more simulating a spin, and down will make it curve downwards.
7110 wasn’t in The Matrix. If I remember correctly it was 8110 (not 100% shure about the model) tweaked so that the keyboard would open automatically when a button was pressed. Later the 7110 used same techinique in a standard phone.
True.
yup thats the 8110 aka “The banana Phone”
the icons design at n8 level are taken from n9
Not really. The Anna icons were shown before the N9 was announced, were on the X7 and E6 at launch also, and ended up on Asha phones too. But it’s true that nothing in 2010, including the N8, really looked like that prior to 2011 firmware updates or themes.
The Nokia N9 should be on this infographic. With so much effort put into the design and UI/UX that created a new paradigm.
Also, why is Samsung Omnia on this list?
“Also, why is Samsung Omnia on this list?”
I didn’t see it on this list, could you point out where it is?
Maybe I was in a hurry, I saw the tiles and thought it was a Samsung Omnia. Either way Windows Phone shouldn’t be on this infographic.
i agree …
no n900 and no n9
where are the other maemo devices ?
lol.. there is no innovation for Lumia in that infographic
yeah i dont think “Tiles” should be called innovation. That should be the n9 with the touch UI or whatever you call it.
They should add 5110 with its interchangable face plates. “express on covers”
Why do not post much about the Nokia Series 40 v6 ?
Software and games like
N9 should be in
WP 7.5 is not started by Lumia/Nokia… Even the UI does not even belong to Nokia at all and Nokia does not involve in the making or transforming the the tiles. Nokia only able to tell Microsoft what they want but Microsoft decide everything for the tiles. No wonder 2011 is total failure cause Nokia supporting something that they can’t even control.
hope, it will change asap!!
N9 should be on there for sure .. swipe UX/No buttons/new design language.. ya, it is a milestone.
it is!!
where is the phone that got us SNAKE
Anyone notice the tattoo patent alongside the 808 pureview for year 2012? Wonder which phone will use that.. Lumia prodigy??
Lol, fanboyism aside, I just find it comical that in 2011, there’s no innovation, and the “technology” is.. Windows Phone.. lol… Everything else is pretty amazing..
so why is the n900 and N9 missing :/ ..plus those tiles don’t belong