Nokia Lumia 800 and 900 win Gold at International Design Excellence Awards 2011
Apparently in the 2011 IDEA (International Design Excellence Awards), Nokia’s Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 900 won design GOLD awards.
NokConv writes:
Lumia 800 & 900 by Nokia
At the 2011 IDEA awards, Windows Phone 7 won Best in Show, now it’s Nokia’s Lumia 800 and Lumia 900 that get the glory. Entered separately, the Jury chose to reward the Lumia series for its distinctive contribution to smartphone design.
The Jury said, “In a market in which it is difficult to stand out, the Nokia Lumia brings a fresh perspective. The iconic form is personal and inviting without sacrificing precision, and the construction is modern, efficient and well-crafted down to the smallest details. It’s a bold, gold-worthy effort, and I’m glad to see Nokia reclaim its design swagger.” Jonah Becker, Principal and Creative Director, One & Co.
http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/07/03/nike-nokia-and-ibm-go-for-design-gold/
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http://idsa.org/2012-idea-commercial-and-industrial
Quote:
Thanks to our Sponsors, Partners and Media Partners: Microsoft…
’nuff said
Err, wrong link, I had a couple of tabs open: http://idsa.org/idea-2012-communication-tools
Still, the main sponsor is the same
Oh right. Do you want to mention the other four sponsors on the front page or shall we just assume that you’re so bitter it’s really difficult for you to think objectively about this?
I mean it’s not as if the 800 – as indeed has the N9 – won praise for design from others, is it?
Oh wait.
Geee, can’t you take a joke?
I can when one’s actually being made.
lol
he has a point though msft is their major sponsor
it would be like gizmodo/engadget singing praise of a new iphone we’d all be like “well no sh*t”
HTC Droid Incredible also got a Gold award. I guess that’s also because of the msft sponsorship and nothing to do with the fact that design wise, N9, 800 and 900 were universally recognised in the blogosphere as the nicest looking phones around. :p
Look at the beauty. Oh ya Cyan 900 and 800!! Sammy and Apple still cry at that incredible look, feel, quality and an OS system that leaves IOS and Jelly Bean (lol) in the dust. My,my,my. I can understand another award. Well at least Sammy got one for a hot plate.
nuff said.
A hot plate!! Thats too funny.
forgot to logout and switch to your sock puppet?
cool? shouldnt this be an award for the N9 though? or is the OS a consideration as well ?
Pretty sure its the hardware/OS combination that made it to the awards. The N9 just looks far too mainstream (the icon style) and utilitarian.
Superficially it may look mainstream, but if you’ve used it heavily you know it doesn’t bleed like that all the way through.
Far from it…..
And we know the N9/800/900(maybe less so -we dont know) form was originally very much designed around it’s UX.
It just so happens that it tends to work well with the WP UX too, fortuitously.
Oh no! Awards! Now they will discontinue those products…
Here is nice price lumia 900. http://wireless.amazon.com/Nokia-Lumia-Windows-Phone-Cyan/dp/B007P5NNDE/?tag=intom-20
Nothing nice about AT&T prices. Who cares if the phone is “free”, when you pay $60 / month for 900 minutes of talk time + $50 / month for 5 GB of data and $20 / month for unlimited SMS. Yea, free phone, but $130 (times 24) for the contract. All for the cheap total price of $3120…