Video: People Made: An exhibition designed and curated by Nokia Design
Helsinki as you may or may not be aware is the design capital of 2012. Last Friday an exhibition started to showcase several of these new upcoming Finnish designs. On the top floor, it was all about Nokia in particular the past, present and future designs.
Check out 4:17 you can see several key people in design at Nokia being filmed for an interview. It is shown three at a time where it looks like they’re speaking to each other but they’re actually recorded individually. There’s Marko Ahtisaari – a popular name amongst the Nokia fans.
It looks a lot cleaner now everything got closed off into panels. I managed to check this place out during their preparation and it doesn’t look like the same place. Very cool work.
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Anyone else notice the N9 they show has a camera button?
Two different screens from the video below;
http://i.imgur.com/1yO2h.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/rfWdi.jpg
interesting…
Nokia purposely omit it in N9 after someone in the house although the original design has it?
So that they can put it in Lumia 800 as an advantage to Lumia 800?
Do you wear a tin foil hat?
I’m sorry. It appears you weren’t actually there so it’s understandable that you are mistaken in your assumption.
In fact, there are N9s all around the exhibition. There’s a table with N9 and 800 on it. There’s a big screen video with the N9 MeeGo shown on it.
Also note in the very first videos of N9 there were some protos shown with camera button.
That’s what I try to highlight in proto N9 got camera button but why Nokia removes it?
Not really, it’s more of a design choice. One I happen to agree with. The Lumia 800 looks uglier than the N9, apart from the unfitting UI for the form, precisely because of the added buttons. As I’ve said above, I personally wouldn’t mind if the N9 didn’t have a single button, not that I use them anyway. And it certainly wouldn’t be a disadvantage. YMMV.
Actually they should have removed the buttons and implement something like in the sony ericsson mw600 bt headphones, where there is a line where you touch and depend on the direction, it goes vol up or down http://www.esato.com/reviews/sony-ericsson-mw600-bluetooth-headset/gfx/sony-ericsson-mw600-bluetooth-headset-20.jpg pretty cool and it would fit with the unibody design
They’ve been probably using old CAD files, or just copy-pasted the side view from the Lumia 800. The N9 was supposed to have a camera shutter button, but it was removed to keep the message of button-less. I just wish they had the guts to remove all the buttons.
P.S. Speaking of removing all the buttons, I already mentioned it before – the only coolest and more magical looking device than my unicorn N9 would be a hypothetical unicorn N10:
- Without a single button
- Without a single seam
- Without a single port/hole (apart from the speaker grills)
Achievable by:
- Inductive charging
- Virtual SIM – with the mechanism to clone/store a SIM card info inserted in the inductive charging pod
- Proper USB interface in the inductive charging pod allowing for full-USB speed connectivity with the N10
- If you need a headset, nothing wrong with a BT one, especially if it can charge inductively as well
- Always-on capacitive screen with special gestures for powering up / down / reboot
The tech exists, the design is there, it’s not even all that expensive, and it would surely wow pretty much anyone. Alas, Nokia is too of a coward to do such a thing, and they’ve abandoned the platform anyway…
This is amazing! I would do anything to get this device. Nokia made it, they would revolutionise mobile space, provided they marketted it. Apple wouldn’t know what to do, except copy or enter patent war, while Android just boasted more cores
The sad thing is that Nokia has almost all the components to make it work
- N9 body – check (and there is place for an inductive charging coil without making it thicker or interfering with the antennas)
- UI/UX which doesn’t require a single button – check
- Inductive charging tech – check, there was a video from one of their labs back in the N95 days!
- Various BT headsets (just make them more stylish) – check
- Low-range high-bandwidth wireless and USB-over-wireless – check, don’t know if Nokia has some of that tech on their own, but those can be grabbed for cheap
- Always-on capacitive screen + gesture capturing – check (needs a ultra-low power mode, tho, for turning on the device)
The only problem I see is a virtual SIM as carriers even managed to stop Apple from doing that (but come iPhone 6/7 I’m quite sure it will be a history which is why I find all that jazz about nano-SIM pointless). Still, until that happens Nokia could a micro-SIM hole with a push/pop mechanism which wouldn’t ruin the design all that much, and then they can just remove it once they negotiate with the carriers.
If the N9 caused such stir in the media, you can only imagine what would such device do. Sure, there are a couple of practical problems with such a device, but you get far more on the other hand – no art comes without sacrifices, and in this case sacrifice wouldn’t be all that big (having to carry a 5mm credit-card sized pod if you want to charge or transfer through the USB, and that’s pretty much it from disadvantages).
Nokia wouldn’t need more than 3 months to bring such a device to the market – including even, maybe, upping the HW specs. If that wouldn’t be an instant hit, I don’t know what would – with such a move they would out-Apple the Apple. But that’s where Nokia and Apple differ – Apple is willing to go that extra mile, even if they don’t get the time to bother with trivialities. Nokia, on the other hand, will iron out the insignificant things while sitting on a tech not brave enough to use.
Oh, well, one can dream… I even had the idea to create that concept in my-dream-Nokia style, but sadly haven’t got around it…
This is fundamentalism in design, what is like a kind of fantism. Nice to hear/read but very uncomfortable in practice. N9 would be more comfortable with programable 3rd button, which could be user defined to start camera, or dictaphone or player etc.
Nothing fanatic in wanting a device to look out-of-this-world, especially when it wouldn’t restrict usage too much. What would be uncomfortable on it? I use my N9 every day and I can’t remember when was the last time I pressed any button it – on purpose, that is, I press the volume buttons when holding it from time to time, accidentally, which is mighty annoying.
And what’s wrong with double tap + half bottom-up swipe to reveal four programmable buttons on the screen – you can do it within a second (just tested), and usually the same time is required to ‘find’ and press the hypothetical third button – on the same place where the camera shutter key is in the original design – especially if you’re not a leftie. The only disadvantage is, as with all on-screen buttons, that you can’t really use them without looking at the screen – which can be remedied to some extent with some form of tactile feedback using vibration and motor learning.
The N9 form is born, and have what it takes, to be completely button-less, so why not take the advantage of that given the amount of wow/magical/amazing/whatever factor it can generate for some very small sacrifices here and there. I’m not advocating that every device should be button less, far from it, but with such fierce competition one has to be inventive and original, and one such opportunity is up for grabs to Nokia so why not take it?
There’s only one reason why Nokia abandoned it…
P.S. If someone is worried how such a device would be serviceable, the screen can be held inside by magnetically retractable hinges and pulled out with suction cups.
I want to ask a small question, if any one has an answer please give me; can we expect an N9 Succesor, or that’s over? because it would be great!
You know what they say: If a woman say “no” she could mean “perhaps”. If a woman say “perhaps” she could mean “no”. If a woman say “yes” she could be called a whore.
So you never know – the Murphy’s law says: nature is always on the side of a evil.
There are millions of users asking for n9 successor, very satisfied with N9 and N9 software and playability and useability. I personally would be very surprised if Nokia would not like to make money on this basis. That would be insane and against shareholders interests IMHO. You are just another one who prooves my above thesis. You can even google N10 or N9 succesor and fiund out people even describes expected specs for N9 successor.
Thank’s man, your answer makes me think that you are one ”Wiseman”, so thank you again,
by the way, nice introduction:)