Category Archives: Design

Becoming super-human with your mobile sixth sense

LONDON, UK – Today we’re excited to be at Nokia’s London base for a rare behind-closed-doors design event dubbed The Inside Story. Alastair Curtis, Head of Design at Nokia, has just introduced the themes of today’s event and the things … Continue reading

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Making of the Nokia N97 video (with “blood, sweat and tears”)

GLOBAL – The story behind the making of the Nokia N97 is a fascinating one that gives a real insight of what goes into to forging a flagship device from scratch (the topic of what makes a flagship device has … Continue reading

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Doing something different with our Eco Round Table

ESPOO, Finland – The folks at Nokia Singapore had a little issue. They wanted to have a round table discussion with journalists to discuss the environmental activities we have at Nokia. One problem: all the people they wanted to talk … Continue reading

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Interview with Valtteri Eroma, head of design for Nokia Eseries

BARCELONA, Spain – Both the Nokia E75 and the E55 come with new or updated form-factors and materials. Valtteri Eroma is a driving force in making such design decisions as he heads the design team for all Eseries products. I … Continue reading

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The story behind Nokia’s smallest Bluetooth headset

ESPOO, Finland – Small things can slip through the cracks, and indeed this little one did. The Nokia BH-804 was announced back in October as Nokia’s smallest Bluetooth headset. But it was only today that we found out that the … Continue reading

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Best of 2008 in Design – Co-creation at Beta Labs and Nokia Pilots

ESPOO, Finland – This was the year that Nokia really engaged with their most passionate users over new and future products and services. Two of the best examples of this are the Nokia Beta Labs and Nokia Pilots. Fascinated by … Continue reading

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Best of 2008 in Design – Headphones

GLOBAL – Sometimes it’s the stories that come out of nowhere that blindside you with excited response and become almost cult in their popularity. The piece we ran on the Music Headset Almighty Competition was one such happening, striking a … Continue reading

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Best of 2008 in Design – Anthropology

LONDON, England – We first got to hear (and see) Jan Chipchase speak at the Nokia Design Event held in London in June. Before then he was a mystical figure who, we were told, spent is time on street corners … Continue reading

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