Better designs for phones?

Question

I completly understand that the people employed for desinging nokia phones are professionals and maybe even top of the class in their respective fields.
As this is a "idea and sugestion" forum i wanted to discuss about few nokia desings such as N91 and N73.
N91- best out there in terms of audio quality and capacity. although the desing looked good on the website in reality it dint appeal to many people. Its shocking to note that the phone is infact dangerous when the slider is open and can giv u cuts if ur not careful.
This is a major design flaw and i hope that by discussng it on this forum it might (just might) get the attention of nokia desingers, who will avoid this in future.
N73- It is no doubt a fierce contender on the market right now and is skewed with positive feedbacks. The desing is great but the concern is the keypad that is very jam packed and kinda takes getting used to.
This minor inconvinience could easily have been avoided if the numeric keypad had a convex finishing that could make key presses more accurate.(kindly see the N93 keypad to fully understand what im saying).
All in all i would like discussions if any about any nokia model that is great or with desing flaws or how some could be avoided.
I hope this discussion is looked at as a design feedback rather than a rant, which it really isnt.
cheers
Engineering undergrad.

Answer 1

descartes,
First off, great post, made a lot of sense.
Amazing (to some) that the N73 is your first Nokia phone; I currently have the N80 (not sure if I like it or not yet, had it around 2 months & still deciding); but up until then I hadn't had a Nokia since the old 3210 i think it was; something like that anyway...geez so long ago I forget.
I have had quite a few SE phones over the years, a couple of Motorola's, the odd Panasonic, and a couple of others most probably in between.
To be honest my post above gave the impression I was annoyed at the volume of phones Nokia churn out each year, saying I tink they should concentrate on getting out fewer higher-quality (less buggy I am not a beta-tester) phones.
To a certain extent I am still of that view, but then the other thought is that at last Nokia (and other manufacturers to an extent) are pushing the boundaries of what you can put into a mobile.
Amazing to see what you can do now sn't it!
The N93 is almost back to the "small brick" stage again; but a much nicer looking brick!
As for durability, that is not normally an issue with I think the majority of phone consumers, I change mine at least yearly, if not more, but you are right, some will last and some will not, my mum had until last year an old Ericcson phone, worked perfectly (still does I think).
Perhaps camcorder manufacturers should start installing phones????
Message Edited by otthen on 30-Aug-2006
11:53 PM