On: Nokia’s Visionary Wants to Out-Design Apple

[justinmk]

> “Nothing else looks like this in a phone store,” he says of the 920. “It’s very, very, very organic. It’s almost super-organic,

Also wants to out-do Apple on reality-distortion :)

I am glad to see a company competing on visual/industrial design, where Sony and Dell have failed miserably.

[nooneelse → justinmk]

Organic things like trees and such are well known for their smooth glass surfaces and straight edges. Be careful if you put one of these phones down in a park, you might lose track of it among any nearby sticks. :)

This goes beyond distortion and well into redefinition.

[randallu → nooneelse]

"Organic matter" always makes me think of "fertilizer" or "compost" (ha ha). But I do like the ID designwork Nokia have done.

I don't see how the new phones will change the game for them, though; they're incrementally better than the old ones (apparently as is the software).

[nooneelse → randallu]

I quite like the way these phones look too. Nokia, when they try, does a good job on such things, I think. It is just that nothing about them looks organic at all. So it is absurd that someone kept using that term for them.

[sp332 → nooneelse]

Trees are not the only organic things. The Lumia could be some sort of tuber or fruit :)

[slantyyz → justinmk]

Outside of a few "lost" years spent on weird keypad designs, for the most part, I think that Nokia's phone designs have been pretty good overall.