with huge size of RAM and fast CPU
ofcoz >= 8MP Camera

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JIko Reply:
March 17th, 2010 at 12:55 pm

5 MP is sufficient for me, BUT look after picture quality!!! I switched from N82 to N900 and I’m not happy with the quality as much larger percentage of picture fail (come out of focus, etc.) with N900. I took 900+ pictures with N82 in January and got some nice shots. Please: good optics, flash and software. Optical zoom would be nice (but maybe some day

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Why does the “Secondary buttons” slider moves the pointer to “Too way out there” red zone. Irrespective of other choices, the secondary button should not have any impact on the pointer as all the options mentioned should be feasible without any extra effort.

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See, this does nothing for me, since it leaves out all the things that really matter. It’s not just about a 4″ capacitive display, and QWERTY keyboard on a device.

The 4″ display has to be an 854×480 16:9. The QWERTY has to be a normal 4 row QWERTY, and not one with a space in the middle of it a la E75. I’m talking OmniaPRO B7610, or LG GW620 like, even Nokia C6 like (minus the D-pad), with the tactile feedback of the Nokia E72/HTC Touch Pro2. That’s the perfect QWERTY, and the one I guarantee your consumers want to see you build.

The choices for secondary buttons are also bad. There’s a huge number of us who have to have our dedicated power button, dedicated camera shutter button, and dedicated hardware keys for calling and the menu/home button. Touch sensitive buttons look nice but they’re terrible to use. Take the 4 keys that sit below the display on the HTC Legend, and use that as the blueprint for your three buttons. Those are perfectly designed. Even the ones on the 5800 are good, but they need to be dressed up a little, made metal maybe, or colored a nice silver that doesn’t rub off over time. Just stop using capacitive buttons.

While everything I have written above is a great start, it still doesn’t take into account the other critical hardware such as processor, RAM, and internal memory (especially C: memory). But I’ll get to those when it comes up.

And in regards to the statement made at the beginning, “(we can’t aim to better the might of the Nokia design team – their knowledge runs far, far deeper than ours).” I have yet to see them build a truly spectacular product, one that will truly satisfy the market’s wants and desires. The E71 was the closest thing I’ve ever seen them build to perfection. All it was missing was a wider body for a bigger keyboard and 2.6″ display. Build quality, and materials was amazing. Something I can’t say for any other product they’ve built, even the E72, which feels cheap in comparison.

Don’t get me wrong, they design fantastic looking devices, but ultimately most turn out sub-par due to materials used, and other design related things. Take notes from HTC, and Moto’s Droid, and start building some metal frame and body Nseries devices.

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Doug Reply:
March 16th, 2010 at 1:56 am

Almost forgot. It’d definitely be a slider form factor, with the tilt design of the HTC Touch Pro2, with the back design of the N97 so it sits flat on a table.

I’m not looking for anything crazy thin like the LG Panther. I will gladly accept a device that’s 16 – 16.5mm thick (19mm at the camera), if it gets me everything I want. Any thinner than that and the keyboard will feel as horrible as the N97 Mini, Droid, and N97’s, which is what I don’t like. It makes the whole keyboard thing almost pointless to some degree.

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Henrik Reply:
March 16th, 2010 at 2:34 pm

I totally disagree. I hate the LG Panther / VX9900. Like most BREW devices, the design is horrible and lacks any of refinement whatsoever.

No wonder this is a US-only device.

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Doug Reply:
March 16th, 2010 at 9:54 pm

The only thing I find wrong with it is the thickness. I know that keyboard is never going to have the feel of the Touch Pro2 or the E72, and that’s a huge problem for me because it makes having that keyboard almost worthless.

The idea however, of a device with a big display, and side sliding 4 row pretty well designed QWERTY, with pretty darn good hardware specs, is what I’m looking for, and I know many others are as well.

Nokia could do two things to satisfy the high end of the market. Build two spec’d out devices, and put a side sliding 4 row QWERTY with the ability to tilt the screen on one, and have no hardware keyboard on the other.

What is your idea of refinement?

Chris Reply:
May 30th, 2010 at 9:33 pm

It is abundantly clear, that you want Nokia to follow in the footsteps of other firms and this is also voiced by others. This will NOT happen and I am very proud of them. They provide very durable, practical and STABLE devices that work for years. If there design elements bother you that much put a sock in it and go buy a Galaxy S drop it a few days later and realize your money was better spent in an N900 or upcoming N8. Now thats reality.
You certainly have a point about the C: memory but i don’t think that is a major determining factor when an individual purchases a phone especially if it has a memory card slot.
What I know is that Nokia seems to understand better than anyone else what are the major determining factors when purchasing a phone and they try to cater to the majority but also provide for the minority(N900). While all the others put great cool mouth-watering stuff together in an attempt to hit something in the dark.

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PRICE!

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4inches – its a good size – little bigger than 5800 – it’s no sense to put bigger screen in just a phone (even multimedia phone) – its possible to make 1280×480res.

capacitive screen of course with capacitive stlus (for more precision in drawing, web browsing etc.)

shape – im for communicator style (e90) or with some kind of slide

must have double touch screen – full touch qwerty, or full touch game controls

side keys (camera/volume etc) traditional

optimized software or over the 600MHz processor with nice amount of ram

built in memory 8GB++

camera 5Mpx++ with really good ccd and possibly optical zoom (not mention – af/ksenon/macro/panoramic its a must have)

here is something awesome – but i think “2-parts-device” is enough
http://gorumors.com/qualcomm-multi-fold-electronic-portable-device/275862

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Resistive multi-touch like STMicroelectronics solution wich tracks up to ten simultaneous touches with fingers, nails or stylus.

Overall screen must be brighter like super AMOLED so it can be seen in direct sunlight.

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jbk1971 Reply:
May 5th, 2010 at 12:53 pm

I agree with you, and share your decision for resistive screen

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I would like to have screen ratio 2:1 This way phone with 5″ screen could be narrower. Screen ratio 2:1 is better for internet browsing and navigation than 16:9.

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Theres going to be a problem later on, with operating system, if capasitive screen is selected, as resistive with its better accuracy suits better for meego. That way you can use regular X mouse pointer which is practicly impossible with capcitive.

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Why have you at Nokia forgot disabled people?

Do you have plans to make accessibility options to phones? You have dropped Bluetooth modem and AT+CKPD command interface off so there is no way to steer phone with simple external interface adapter like sip-puff switch or big buttons etc. Also no full (or not at all) interface to external BT keyboard. Why is that?

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How about really giving users an opportunity to give feedback what kind of high end mobile computer we really want? Let us choose what is the size and screen resolution, how much memory it should have etc. freely by giving exact numbers, not any slider stuff with limited options.

I just want to give feedback, you have to consider the cost factor what you can deliver

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I would love to see the same idea in some new model as in your 6131 phone; being able to take good self-portraits thanks to the folded model’s secondary screen working as a view-finder. I’m praying for my old phone to stay operational until some manufacturer makes a phone with the same idea.

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Touch GUIs are for tourists. They are trend at the moment, but not very handy in long run – we all know that.

People who do mobile compunting require decent static qwerty keyboard. Or why else PCs have not changed keyboards to touch screens, perhaps because they are not proper for hacking.

Nokia could provide one decent tool for professional usage:
– Communicator with linux
– 100g weight
– CLI operations(with bash you are faster)
– CLI(mail, web, hacking, irc, etc)

Phone operations would be easy and quick to handle from outside. Inside you could have decent keyboard and display combination with versatile Linux OS.

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lukeskymac Reply:
March 19th, 2010 at 8:16 pm

“Touch GUIs are for tourists. They are trend at the moment, but not very handy in long run – we all know that.”

I seriously hope you are joking.

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No Physical keyboard 3.5/3.7inch screen Xenon Flash & 720p video.

Xenon Flash

Xenon Flash

Xenon Flash, PLEASE

Come on Nokia XENON Flash on a touchscreen phone (with no physical keyboard)

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Contact search with both person’s name and the company’s name at the same time is needed (the phone that I use is searching company’s name only if no person’s name is added).
Also, adding company details only once and “under this” linked person’s working in the company. When searching with the company name, displaying all the person’s working in that company.

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What ever kind of button that would lock the screen position. It needs to be there all the time so it could be hardware button or maybe some sort of gesture that would keep it in that orientation.
This is would keep webpages and other apps from turning if you don’t want them to. So just a simple lock not something that will let you turn it.

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How about a slim nice phone with double displays (might require advancement in display technology)

On the backside of the phone you would have a low energy consumption display (possibly reduced color depth) showing a static image, such as an advert. Operators would update this screen over the network with dedicated messages and could thus sell customized advertisment space on handhelds. Operators would sell the phones to end users with bargain deals but with the adverts.

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gdsfgdg Reply:
March 19th, 2010 at 10:08 pm

CHRIST! what a horrible idea

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Don’t try to look or feel so good. That’t Apple’s turf. Don’t reinvent the wheel, that’s just NIH syndrome. Just imitate them, ok?

Innovate in other things. Provide better battery. Make the software safe. Support seamless WLAN / UMTS roaming with Skype and built-in SkypeOut / SkypeIn.

Well, use Android.

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There is already too many properties in the mobilephones. Make it just easier to use than other phones. That is enough.

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if you have to put some buttons in it, put just one but make sure it works. im talking about the power button. sony tried years ago, didn’t they? a switch that actually turns the power cycle on or off – it needs two positions for that. not a rubbery teat that * maybe * works.

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Stupid system , so much is missing to get a correct picture
of what users want

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wow – what a loud group of haters here. seriously – most of these posts are from people who either didn’t read the description of what this design-by-community is supposed to be, or people who read it and just don’t care; they want to vent about nokia and felt the looming opportunity to do so.

anyway, i’m interested in where this goes and think you’re doing a fine job. when the completed specs are out if people still feel they couldn’t voice a particular desire then you should open up sections of the specs for debate and refinement. of course, i imagine that is exactly the point of this whole ordeal. maybe i’m just a more patient man than others?

and i’ll add that i’m currently a happy N900 owner, who was pretty ticked off about spending over $600USD on the N97 when it first shipped only to find it uselessly riddled with flaws. i’ll bet half the ape-like chest beaters posting here before me never even held the N97… opinionated FUD from the hate factory i think.

-bitflung

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“And no, the plan isn’t to actually make the product”

- Then what, pray tell, is the point? I’m sure we can all draw meaningless doodles of phones all we want without an internet poll’s help.

The poll questions are also so vague that they’re effectively meaningless (if you say a smartphone has a 4 inch resistive touchscreen and full qwerty, you have told nothing about the phone yet, they _all_ have that or close to it) and so limited in their options that it’s it’s all but impossible to describe a phone Nokia hasn’t already made.

I suppose this poll can measure how important people think a capacitive touchscreen is, but what about any other, more important criteria we may have? For example, my most important criterion is that the phone can run PC software (Linux or Windows). Will you let us choose that sort of thing? I want to be able to play Baldur’s Gate on my phone and I would give up nearly any other functionality for that.

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8mp with Xenon flash…

Yes Xenon is a must….

Capacitive screen and 4″ without qwerty key board…

Good RAM and CPU + Graphics board…

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nice from nokia to care about what we want, but the looks aren’t enough, we want the next n900 to have more ram and a faster cpu and gpu.

an updated OS well be better, thats something i well gladly get and buy.

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This is nice, let’s hope Nokia will make phones we crate. They should put Symbian vs MeeGo also!

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Start with a phone like the N97 (keep reading, everybody!). The dual cameras are great. The angled screen when you open it for the keyboard is awesome. Features otherwise are pretty good. What it needs to be a Perfect phone: more RAM (~256MB?); either increase the size of the C drive dramatically or (even better) just make one huge drive (64GB? My 32GB is almost full); MUCH faster processor (this is really my biggest gripe about the phone). Then just figure out how to make the battery last for a day of normal usage with all of that (my battery lasts for a full day and no more; that’s fine with me), and it’s a great phone!

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arkanoid Reply:
June 2nd, 2010 at 9:38 pm

n97 keyboard just sucks.

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I would like to buy dual-SIM Nokia e72
this is my dreamphone

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I just need a E52 or an E66 with 2.6″ screen and 320×480 resolution and I would be really happy. No touch screen can beat hardware buttons.
regards,
Fabi

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Lookin for forward to symbian 3 and 4.

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Please make a phone that is just as perfect and durable as Nokia 3310 was in it’s time in the. So far, you haven’t managed to make a phone that has overcome that one. I hope in your next model will make a phone just as perfect and simple as that, a flawless browser and flawless OS. At LEAST 1GB RAM and a dual-core processor if that’s possible now. I hope for a responsible, fast and reliable phone just as 3310. Again, it need to be simple to use and easy to navigate. Sorry for my bad English.

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The perfect phone can be a remote control of a TV and be as a “gateway” of Internet services to TV or any display with common interface. It has a standard output where all kind of Gyro Gearlooses invent different kind of night lamps and other stuff what no one needs but you can’t live without.
If I loose it I can follow it by my home or work computer with Navigation program sending messages to it. “Please come home to dad”. If it does not come home by request I can wipe all data away. At home I would like to teach it to tell me where it is when I whistle.

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No way to choose a 3.7″ screen, also no option of AMOLED, or the latest buzz Super Amoled.

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I bougth n900 bout 2 months ago. The only thing which I feel bit dull is that one have to recharge the battery once per day. Especially when one uses constantly wifi and 3g connections. So plz give us battery technology with atleast 2wh capacity. In same size ofcourse. Weight isnt so big problem!

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AMOLED!!!!
is the future
multitouch capacitive
saludos desde Argentina

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VERY BIG QWERTY keyboard with 4 keys rows including digits keys (1…0)

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That’s what I think..

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Just add the LED Projector for picture/video and videophoning will be the next big thing.

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And dual-sim please!!!

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AMOLED+Maemo only!

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What about a qwerty keyboard like the palm pré instead of a tilt and slide (for next weeks’ questionaire) (which is to me still the perfect form factor, too bad they don’t sell in every country, and if they do it’s locked to a gsm provider… reason enough not to buy their stuff, ever).

Also LCD/AMOLED/… could be important to some people.

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As for mobile device which is used on the move, the iPhonish touchscreen-no keys idea sucks badly. A mobile phone, should have buttons, so you don’t have to look at it while driving and need to make a call. Please don’t go the iPhone way! At least not only…

I love the idea of Blackberrish E72 and even more, the E75 with double keyboard. BUT, the E75 qwerty keyboard is way too flat (can’t feel the buttons) and lacks a TAB key for navigating forms (and possibly separate number-keys row,but that’s a lot to ask of a small yet comfortable keyboard;)).

Both E’s are very nice and slim, but I’d give away a bit of slimness (not much of it, though;)) in favor of a better camera and 30fps video (720p or even VGA, but 30fps).

And for every single model out there with a LED flash – let me use the LEDs as a flashlight! That’s the most used function of the LED flash in my HTC Wizard – the camera sucks, the LED flash has zero efectiveness for photo-taking, but as a flashlight it saved me a gazzillion times. I don’t care if the LEDs will break a year sooner – I need a flashlight! Everyone does sometime.

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A dual sim would be a nice to have and would be highly appreciated by a lot of people.

Have a good job!

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Since Nokia targets its hi-end devices for geeks, just an update for N900 is needed – thinner, faster -just like HTC HD2 but with Meego.Addind some style will get other target groups to this device. It’s very easy task to accomplish. Nokia – please FOCUS on longer life cycle for such a products.

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a sollar cell charge for save the world, beneficial from global warming issue.

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And give it a shell like 7390, which would not be a fingerprint magnetic.
And I will be very glad if it’s L’Amour style.

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What the… You have just totally dictated what people can select Who wants a 5 inch widescreen _phone_… Let us submit what we wish, you DO NOT know what ALL people want. Why to even bother if you think so.

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Everything I want from a Nokia phone is too way out there

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Cool Idea!

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Nokia keeps on designing to specs, not to what user experiences…

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A lighter phone than N900 and N97 which fits in pocket, more battery power (yes thr kinetic one which is Nokia’s latest patent), more innovative keypad design which is photosensitive, augmented reality(face recognition, shopping, maps), connected services and apps and an excellent camera, dual sim.

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Must have meeegooo!!!

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Nokia should be faster lounching new touch screen models into the market. Less in general but more touchscreen models.

The model lines shuld be more clearly focused.

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Gesture recognition interaction with user interface could be very interesting advantage over the rivals.

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I have been hunting around for a new smartphone and so far the one big problem is nobody makes one (including Nokia) that works as a good phone first. Pretty much every smartphone right now sucks at being a good phone, with nice clear send and end buttons and good keypad that can easily be used with 1 hand and without having to look at the phone to see what touch buttons you are pressing.

What I need is:
4 inch or larger screen
Touch interface that works well
Well spaced QWERTY keyboard with good key response
Separate numeric keypad that works well and is easy to access with one hand
Good MP/3 player / radio / GPS
Good camera with camcorder function with lighht and flash
microSD card slot and standard mini USB charging / data interface
Bluetooth support
Tethering / hotspot functions
Good web browser

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Multiple speaker functions that´s cool for GPS and phone use at the same time!

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hope…

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I’m still waiting for my E93 to replace my E90.
What happened to Full 5 row QWERTY keyboards?
Multi-touch resistive quarter HD internal screen. (Clamshell case. Add swivel and secondary external screen (320X480) with T9 pad wouldn’t be required. Touch screen version instead)
Without multi-touch, add a robust trackpoint textured nipple.
32GB internal memory (4GB usable for apps) with microSD slot.
8megapixel camera with shutter and xenon flash, plus dual LED’s for 720 video recording.
Decent CPU power and 3D graphics running of your new self charging technology backed by 1500mAh battery.
I want a new higher material quality brick to replace my old brick (Just don’t make it brown again)

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I would’ve very much liked the n900 to have been an n810 with a cellular modem, but instead it had a lousier keyboard, greater fragility, no useful mounting options, an unstable operating system that I can’t replace due to a dependency on an undocumented charging system and cellular system, and inexplicably crippled USB. There are a lot of situations my job depends on where my n900 simply does not serve as well as my n810 did.

In the same way that the Eseries and Nseries phones coexist, I think a more “serious” version of the N900 should exist. Preferably one that doesn’t restart in the middle of an SSH session when one of ten daemons I never use trips the watchdog for the third time today.

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A good one, but it did not allow to submit my dream design. Program said that it is not ambitious enough.

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My ideal smartphone has what it takes and LONG battery life. I’ve endured enough gadgets dying after 3hrs of usage.

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qwerty

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take care about energy consumption…we need an 8h device!

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Perfect mix is what the user wants – not what nokia think… (long time nokia user)

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Tablet phone. Have the screen open up like a laptop and swivel like a tablet. Sorta like the 6260.

Do what Motorola tried to do with the backflip, but with a way to protect the keypad, or better, the screen!

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I am waiting…

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linux on device!

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Bigger fontsizes. Very simple. A normal person in his 50’s has to able to make a call without glasses

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How about making use of the real estate of the back side of the phone? I’ve always wanted a trackpad-ish navigation use for the back. Think e72 trackpad used for navigation and such, except in the back. Our fingers are practically there already.

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qwerty (psion revo foreva)

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i thikn u should make a toch screen

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+
2sim (4G+3G) parallel operation;
Wi-Fi (WEP multikey);
High sens GPS;
More then 3,2 Mpix autofocus camera with flash;
GLASS display with resolution 640*480 (no less);
MicroSDHC;
Changable Hi-Strong Accu;
Some unlimited RAM with Hi-speed processor;
Supporting Flash for I-Browser;
Build-in MS-Office;
Easy onLine firmware update;
Designe like HTC Touch pro 2;
Easy navigation menu (something like iPhone);
Auto recognizing with PC like USB-Flash-Mass-Storage;
Automobile holder with express-plug for charging
___________________________________________
I`ll be always love this phone from N O K I A

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great device to be used

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Wow, the are once again surprised like when the N900 launched. “OMG we weren’t expecting the N900 to gain that much attention!” Where the heck do you (Nokia) live in, a cave? Why even bother asking what we want when you won’t give us that? Even Sony Ericsson and Samsung made way better S60 devices, a platform that you solely developed/manufactured on. Take the Samsung Omnia HD i890. That device is light years away from any of your devices, it even runs circles around them.
But, I’ll give you a chance. If you can come at least close to my dream device I’ll buy it even from your labs.

My dream phone:
- 4″-4.3″ capacitive multi-touch Super AMOLED scratch-resistant screen with FWVGA resolution (No big bezel around it, and also no wasted space, take a look at HTC HD2).

- 4-5 row QWERTY keyboard with D-pad ON THE LEFT (N900 keys look/feel ok, but better spaced out like the N97)

- Qualcomm QSD8650 / Tegra 2 / OMAP 4 SoC clocked @ 600MHz+ with dedicated high-end GPU with graphic/video/anything acceleration
- 1GB RAM / 1GB ROM / 1GB+ phone memory

- 64GB+ internal storage (not ROM)

- External storage (sd card slot)

- Accelerometer, Ambient light sensor, Proximity sensor, GPS/A-GPS, LED notification light, Digital Compass

- 8MP camera with Dual LED flash and autofocus, smile and blink recognition/detection, image stabilizer, wide dynamic range;
video record HD 720p+ @24+ fps with ability to lower down the resolution for best need (D1, 480p, MMS, etc)

- 3.5 mm jack with TV-out (SD content)

- HDMI port (HD content)

- USB port

- HD FM Radio with RDS, FM Tuner

- Wi-Fi a/b/g/n or b/g/n

- Quad-band GSM 850/900/1800/1900

- World HSPA+ and LTE/WiMax support (US = AT&T 3G/T-Mobile 3G, Verizon/Sprint), or at least an all-in-one US 3G phone with support for all carriers for call and 3G

- Thin like the Motorola Droid/Milestone. Pretty much a way slimmer version than the N900, but with better specs.

Now that is pretty well do-able, and would be worth at least $399 here in the US.

OS/software wise, hope S^4 is in there. If you see that S^4 from the SF is dull and boring, then make a nice 21st century UX/skin layout on top of S^4.

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Efrain Romero Reply:
March 18th, 2010 at 8:45 pm

Im just going to lol….

1… 399?? lolumad? i mean really? do you realize what are you asking? Just the NAND Flash goes for 120usd+

2… are you realizing all the ports your asking for? specially in that space.

If that device comes out, ill happily pay over 1000usd for that thing. because i can assure you. its not going to cost less for a long time…

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Amu Reply:
March 20th, 2010 at 9:11 am

And I’ll lol back at you my friend. People like you is why companies get lazy and make a cheap useless device. Take a look before the iPhone came out. Nokia is by far the most money greedy company there is, and with no innovation. They change the colors of an old phone and release it as a “new” product. Now take a look at HTC and how much it has grown, and also listen to the customers’ wants. Can you tell me a Nokia prodct that goes head-to-head with the HTC HD2?

Anyways, I don’t know if you know this, but Motorola will launch a very thin phone with a 4.3″ screen + HDMI + USB port and able to record up to 720p video, probably as thin as the Nexus One, and more hardware and you’re telling me it’s not do-able?? Also, Motorola will launch the Droid 2 with revamped specs/hardware with a QWERTY keyboard and as thin as the Droid. So yes my friend, there are companies out there that are still innovating and not stuck in a cave. Nokia thinks that a 4″ capacitive screen + QWERTY keyboard is not do-able, please!

Lol, if Nokia wanted to they could talk with carriers to subsidize it to even $500, which I would even still buy. Kinda funny and ironic how most of the unlocked phones are underpowered and yet more expensive than the powerful ones don’t you think? (ie Sony Ericsson phones like the Xperia X1).

So please, don’t say it isn’t possible. Hopefully Apple releases a better hardware/spec wise iPhone so that Nokia can finally start getting serious. Moreover, don’t tell a company that you’re satisfied with their underpowered devices, and let them work without a care in the world about competition. They will continue to drop lower if they keep on thinking that an ARMv11 processor clocked @ 400mhz is more than enough.

Also for the rest of the people complaining about the phone not being a phone. There is a reason why devices are named “smartphones” and not “dumb phones.” If you just need a phone then buy a dumb phone, simple as that. Some of us however need/want more and thus choose to buy a smartphone, therefore we are the ones who push the companies to create better and more competitive devices.

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jbk1971 Reply:
March 25th, 2010 at 12:30 am

Perfectly agree with Amu, many manufacturers do all their possible to create and innovate in new technology, but Nokia prefer create devices with old technology, give them a new look and launch an advertising campaign for a device who doesn’t be similar to what they say.
They can do it once, twice, but not three times.

This discussion has deterioriated to the wish list of packing device with the most fancy hardware and of course the cost should never be more than two-digit number.

Realistically though there is only so much you can pack at a given price point. The real issue is how to build within the constraints more intelligently than others. I made my case earlier for device tightly matched to the HD format – half 2K HD res (960×540) and (almost) no border display, full 2K HD camcorder and 4K digital camera.

Today I am adding the next step: make the device seamlessly synchronizable with HD living room display so one could take ownership of this display from the device.

Why postulate this? Just today came rumors that Google together with Sony and Logitech will work on Google TV and of course Android will be the TV platform. In other words Google wants to own the living room.

If Nokia will not seriously try to sync their devices with TV it will loose huge strategic field.

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Cool

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Why can’t you outsmart apple? It’s shouldn’t be that complicated.
1. Use open source code – you already done it
2. Be moral company: it’s quite easy- just behave opposite than apple…
3. Create clean and sexy design: the old HTC diamond and new HD mini are good examples. Nexus and samsung galaxy are very bad one.
4. Add good features to it: FYI- capacitive screen, Amoled and 16M color are basic now- enough with getting cheapy with your spec. Secondary camera is nice bonus.
Good luck

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Design centered in User.

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Skywalker Reply:
March 18th, 2010 at 9:29 pm

- A sensitive, resistive multi-touchscreen with handwriting recognition, Super Amoled
- A fingerprint reader
- Double displays (http://gorumors.com/qualcomm-multi-fold-electronic-portable-device/275862)
- A camera that is comparable to a good compact camera (much better picture quality, Flash, optical zoom, wide angle, night vision, …)
- HD recording (720p will be standard soon, Full-HD high frames would be an innovation)
- HDMI, USB port
- Much more RAM and internal memory (C drive)
- The fastest CPU
- For gaming -> graphic is important!
- Voice recognition
- A project natal for smartphones
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGwvZWyLiBU&feature=player_embedded#
- Augmented reality
- Improve your map-apps -> ovi maps 4.0 -> great local based services (gain money with advertising)
- Dual sim
- One of the most important things: the real internet on the phone!
- A marvelous OS
- Better services
- New, great apps
- A permanent connection to my homePC, workPC, TV, car-system… -> Connect people, connect all of my electronic gadgets (from my smart meter to my oven to my robotic lawn mower) -> connect my environment. My smarthphone should be the hub
Last but not least: Long battery life and a good price
Thus we have conflicting goals -> Solutions? Innovations!
You can see innovations everywhere but at nokia -> Do not ask your customers (which is great, though) and surprise us with breathtaking computers- be ahead of your competitors

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Nokia please wake up your idea! Do something to your N900! Make it upgradeable to MeeGO! You are losing your market share!

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- Optical zoom
- DVB-T Tuner (not -H) with headset as antenna
- built in solar and/or “shaking” charging system
- 720p video recording (or even 1080p)
- all with 16:9 screen candybar design, 640 x 360 with 3,8″ screen or so should be fine, resolution shouldn’t be _too_ high compared to the screen size

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I mainly use my phone for talk+text. Secondary function is music player, and thirdly for email/browsing/apps.

Whatever it is, I would not want Symbian OS. It feels sluggish and is missing many features current OS’s have.

Additionally, N.A. and Asia HSDPA options is a MUST if the phone is to “take off” globally.

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I think a good name for that cellphone could be ‘Aldea’.
It is short, easy to pronounce, and euphonic. It means ‘little village’ in Spanish.

Cheers

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Anas Qtiesh Reply:
March 19th, 2010 at 3:36 am

The name should be “iDea”
/sarcasm

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Please, please, please don’t rely on a stupid touch-screen, soft keyboard. Those things are HORRIBLE, no matter when the iphone crowd says.

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The “ambitiousness”-meter really undermines this. If I set the sliders to something like my dreamphone, it tells me it’s “not ambitious enough”.

Your experiment here would be a lot more interesting if you hadn’t already made up your minds about what’s good and bad. Why is it only ambitious to produce huge TV-sized phones? Why is it more ambitious to stick a goddamn qwerty keyboard on the phone I’m trying to fit in my pocket, than making it do everything through the touch screen?

If my ideal phone is so unambitious, why have no one made it yet?

You know what I’d consider ambitious? A phone corresponding to nearly every slider at minimum: A small screen and no buttons or keys, just touch screen. If you can make something like that *work* and be usable, you’d be doing something new.

There’s nothing innovative about making the phone bigger than everyone elses.

But apparently, Nokia is stuck in the mindset that the only form of innovation is the one that leads to bigger, heavier phones with a battery life of 38 minutes.

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What’s a “hot key”, and what’s a “one touch” key? I’ve never heard these terms before.

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Just my 2 cents.. Buy Palm and do something with that WebOS!

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No Android? No Nokia phone for me I guess.

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*Simply copy the iPhone with a few tweaks to avoid lawsuit, namely:
– Keep icons of apps organized/grouped. Find a nice way to organize and quickly access the app you want (perhaps by speech recognition… not the one as pathetic as in an iPhone)
– Don’t make the GUI as ugly as an Android
– Develop multi-touch (not just two finger touch but mostly use only two finger touch)
* Keep it open source
* Develop a tool to convert android and iphone apps automatically or with minimal effort to Nokia apps
* Develop a tool to convert webapps and mobile websites to Nokia apps
* Don’t be a big brother trying to watch who gets to deploy an app and who doesn’t. Instead, provide strong parental control features that encompass even third party video sites like Youtube. Also keep an easy switch mode from parental controls to no control with the help of password (parents use smart phones to entertain infants toddlers). Have the ability to switch of GSM but leave on Wifi.
* Design the camera so that the phone can be used for video conference as well as for taking videos and pics.
* Dual SIM card
* Allow VOIP and multi tasking (with other apps running in the background)

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Jules Reply:
March 18th, 2010 at 10:13 pm

Offer a candybar like the n82. It does everything I want. Give it an 8mp camera or a touchscreen and I might be tempted, but quite honestly I want a phone to
a) be reliable and well built
b) play mp3s at a reasonable quality
c) not have sliding bits that work loose in my pocket
d) make lots of phone calls per charge
e) take photos (when I forget a camera)
n82 does all that and none of the new line up betters it.

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Matteo Vega Reply:
March 19th, 2010 at 1:18 am

Man, you seriously have no idea…

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fahrbot Reply:
March 19th, 2010 at 2:30 am

A good OS (multi task by any means necessary, simple yet expansible interface and great SDK’s, ohhh yes, copy paste), the ability to install app’s in the phone and on the card without having to pass by a central store, a central store with certified app’s and uncertified (non-paying developers ones). It’s all I ask. As for the device:

A 4 inch resistive multitouch (if it can be responsive).
A sliding qwerty keyboard, or something on the lines of a P990, but non keyboard models would also work.
A design simple like the HTC HD2.
Good processor and probably a dedicated GPU (just to keep up to the other manufacturers)
RAM. Don’t save on this, it’s preferable to scale down the CPU, learn from sony ericsson and it’s P990 and M600.
The screen and doubt it will be anything less than Oled so anway that’s great.

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fahrbot Reply:
March 19th, 2010 at 2:34 am

Oh another thing, supporting something in the lines of LLVM would be great, since it’s on it’s way to support several languages adding to C and C++, supporting D also could prove to be a nice choice. They need help but the language is great and could prove a great asset to fast developing powerfull and performant app’s.

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Anas Qtiesh Reply:
March 19th, 2010 at 3:33 am

“– Don’t make the GUI as ugly as an Android.”

ZOMG! The current iPhone GUI looks like ASS compared to the stock android 2.1, not to mention that there are themes and custom UIs such as the Sense by HTC, Motoblur by Motorola, Xperia UI by SE, etc.

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Wait.. I think you already know what customers want. It’s iphone-like, it’s based on Meego,.. and it’s already in your labs! Isn’t it?
http://bit.ly/9410hw

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With all my respect i must say: Nokia must stop designing, creating, producing and selling phones and pda`s. Symbian must die. Go for vacuum cleaners. Buy nokian brand and create tires. Your activity must be stopped. Thanks, and sorry for poor english.

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Super Nice Idea! But I can’t optimize my own

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Where are the sliders for battery life, durability, and including USB cables with the phone?

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I love that you can basically design a n810 above, and it falls under “too way out there”, yet there are lots of people that do use it as a phone. I’ve carried mine in my front pocket for years now. True, some consider it a touch big, but I wouldn’t consider it “way out there”

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My Nokia Dream Phone:

- AMOLED MULTY TOUCH 3.5” CAPACITIVE SCREEN
- 8 MP Carl Zeiss camera , dual LED flash OMAP-DM5x Coprocessor
- 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 PROCESSOR
- MAEMO 6 OS
- Accelometer, Compass, Thermometer, NFC
- FM Transmitter, FM Radio
- A-GPS receiver
- Bluetooth v4.0, IR, Usb3.0, MHL-to-HDMI, 3.5 mm A/V connector,WHDI (Wireless High Definition)
- Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, LTE, WIMAX 4G 802.16e ,HSDPA ,DVB-H, Quad-band EGSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 900/1700/2100
- Ability to charge or Keep Charged over Radio Waves & Sun Light

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Where is the option for handwriting recognition? Why can’t I make a unit with all the sliders up? For the ultimate phone, I’d be willing to pay the price. I’d like to build a phone along the lines of LG’s GW990, that has Nokia’s MeeGo interface.

Truly a limited survey.

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Stupid Vote. Try to make a 4 Inch screen with qwert, and hot key, something like milestone, then it say I need to lower the spec. Is that nokia will just make phone with much lower spec then other in future? You can force people to vote what you want, but can’t force people to buy your product.

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Restricted choices? I can’t make the phone I want – waste of time.

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Ditch symbian, fast cpu, a decent battery life and no bugs. Why worry with screen size if the software plain sucks?

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The results/actions after touching the touchscreen ought to be immediate. Try to perfect with that. The biggest issues Nokia has concern with the user interface. Its ugly. You should try to standardize the application buttons. You should make it look simple, but still high-class and fun.

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Tuomas Reply:
March 19th, 2010 at 1:08 am

The results/actions after touching the touchscreen ought to be immediate. Try to perfect with that. The biggest issues Nokia has concern with the user interface. Its ugly. You should try to standardize the application buttons. You should make it look simple, but still high-class and fun.

Multisim would be useful.

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i want something like recently revealed Dell Mini 5(without the Android). Slim (no more bulky phone like N900), sleek and has big touchscreen (hope it can be border less).

And put Meego in it (or you can make Meego distribution for Dell Mini 5)

But, for the Meego itself. I think, the current phone os standard has been raised by Microsoft with their 7series. If you, Nokia, want to impress people (once more or never), you have to take new approach.

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Capacitive Screen is quite important

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long battery duration, lens cap, virtual machine for symbian 60 3rd compatibility

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And your website really sucks I can even post two comments with same contents.

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Screw the slider bars…

1) make MeeGo available to current N900 owners;

2) put an OLED display in the next generation of the N900.

If you make MeeGo available for the N900, I’ll stick with Nokia and keep buying Nokia devices, but you guys at Nokia really need to get it together to kick Apple’s butt. Seriously, pick an OS already and stick with it. Make your device sync-able with Macs and Google Apps, not just Windows. Actually compete with Apple and stop being lame; the N900 is an excellent piece of hardware, if only the apps could catch up, and I don’t know about that Ovi stuff, kinda lame.

If everyone and their dog is on Google and Facebook, make sure your devices integrate seamlessly, or just switch to Android. I’d be happy with Nokia’s hardware quality and the Android OS.

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I want a super nokia smartphone!!!

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I don’t understand what is so difficult for you whiners to grasp about this endeavor. Nokia is not asking for what you want in mobile phone utopia (because let’s face it, Americans consider anything over $199 too much if it doesn’t also do their taxes, write their will, and intimately pleasure them), they want to know what type of phone would SELL. Personally, I don’t care what size my screen is, as long as I can get a capacitive touch screen in a 16:9 ratio and a qwerty keyboard, memory expansion (I’m fine with them skimping on storage if it shaves $100 from the price), BT2.1, 802.11g/n, and 3G. Nokia will not offer Windows nor Android, so get that out of your heads now (or learn to hack). And if you care THAT MUCH about your camera quality, GO BUY A FREAKIN’ CAMERA. DSLR’s are plenty affordable these days.

And on a final note: if you’re going to sit here and whine about how Nokia’s handsets don’t look/feel like those from other manufacturers, then GO BUY THE PHONE FOR WHICH YOU’RE REALLY OPINING. Something tells me you crybabies won’t be happy regardless unless your phone lives your life for you.

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will the mobile system change to windows ?

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The Perfect phone would be a “NOKIA” which looks like the roumoured HTC trophy with a really sensitive trackpad instead of the track ball. With a newer edition of Symbian software which works and looks like Blackberry OS 5.0

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I would like to have a large screen, qwerty keyboard and maybe touch screen (I consider it like a funny gadget)

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good idea..

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Dear Nokia:

Make a modern version of the E61. In other words, a real direct competitor to the Blackberries, with a big screen, comforable thickness, LARGE BUTTONS and a SENSIBLE LAYOUT to accomodate human-sized hands (again, see Blackberry – the guys you originally made the E’s to compete with). No more of this microscopic, razor-thin E71 balony, please? The navi button ring should be nearly as thick as the center D-button (”clicker”) and should NOT be beveled so sharply that its like pressing on a dull knife. It should have adjustable scroll speed for when you continually press a direction. Side hotkeys should be fully configurable to emulate any other key, launch any app or do nothing at all. NO FAKE SHAREWARE GARBAGE – nothing but fully functional versions of apps should ship with the device. Usable RAM shall not be less than 128mb. Internal storage shall also not be less than 128mb! Screen backlight auto-off shall be adjustable from 10 seconds to “never turn off”. Phone shall NOT cry and whine to disconnect the charger when fully charged – instead, it will automatically STOP charging until battery charge drops below user-configurable percentange of between 90 and 10%. Screen resolution should be at least the equal of the newest Blackberry Curves. Last but not least, a real app store – please? You will notice I’ve included nothing about the OS. This is because nobody cares what kernal it has, so long as that Symbian-style efficiency and ease of use are preserved. Development should be made as easy as possible, with maximum support for Java and other environments. Enabling ports from competing platforms should be a priority, and Symbian emulation would be most welcome as long as the device has the power to provide a good experience.

I think that about covers it.

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Something powerful like the HTC HD2 is a good start however use a smaller AMOLED capacitive screen so that the machine will fit in a pocket. I would invest heavily in making as much room for a big battery as possible and choosing components that use less electricity (Amoled screen – cortex based processing and higher integration).

Put the antennas (GSM & GPS) in the top along with a small APN (a small 5mpx unit with A/F should be enough) so that there’s space for a bigger removable battery. Go standard 3.5mm headphones with MicroUSB for pclink and power.

A powerful but economical processor (an ARM cortex based unit like the QSD8672 for example) and for connectivity something like the BroadComm BCM4325 (WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, FM reciever) should do nicely.

Bring the price down by using a plastic case and leave memory to the user via a microsd card slot.

Run MAEMO on that and you’ll have a very compelling machine.

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Yes, this is marketing more than anything else. I hope you guys won’t be using this for internal discussions on what your users need.

1. This site will be used mostly by heatseeking nerds. They buy what, less than 2% of your total device volume? Maybe 10-15% of your smart phones?

2. The questions is a spec list. People don’t actually use specs, they use device features (functions via UI @ user model affordance level). For example, the screen selection I’d like to have is this: Does it work with bare fingers only? Works with gloves on also (like in winter time)? Precise finger/pointing accuracy? Crude pointing accuracy? This all then feeds back to physical screen size, touch screen tech used and actual resolution. Asking capacit/resist is silly. Of course I want the best of both! If you can’t manage that and expect people to understand between the trade-offs of these technologies in everyday life, then you are off by a mile. 99% will just select capacitive, because iPhone and all competitors have it and they think it’s “better” automatically.

3. If you want to ask geek stuff, why don’t go all the way? For screen I want a super-high contrast, daylight visible, full colour, 60fps refresh, 3.7″, extra high resolution (1280×720), scratch & hit resistant, nano-coated (for water/grease repelling properties), ultra-low power requirement, super bright screen with good color/grey-scale tracking and a decent color space. This is all fantasy after all, right?

It’s nice you are making an effort to reach out to the audience, I’ll tip my hat off to you for that. I hope this won’t be the last and hope to see you improve on the efforts in the future.

Then again, if nothing ever comes out of this (i.e. it’s a pure PR-sham), then consider your fans to be disappointed.

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ahmad allan Reply:
March 26th, 2010 at 9:09 pm

cool, nano-coated (for water/grease repelling properties),

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Obviousliy I´m not ambitious enough.
So, what do I want?

We own 3x 8800.

Perfect phone, great handling, nice look. I don´t break my thumb when dialing (keypad is nicely in the middle, great handling).

What do I miss: the Series 60 OS on there, so I can install more software.

Create that phone, and its again a buy.
Mike

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Hope they will build the good smartphone with cpu of 600 MHz minimum, graphic card and maximum internal memory for C minimum 256 or 512 Mb if it’s possible.

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With all the integration of services such as Gmail, Facebook, Outlook and more I would like to have an lock/unlock button with built-in fingerprint reader so that and I don’t need to enter a password everytime I want to unlock the phone. The sensor needs to be designed so that I can just push it and not need to swipe over it like the ones commonly found on corporate laptops.

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I just think of the capacity of the short-mail box, plus the cost factor what you can deliver.

Thanks!

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А definitely missing feature is a router with WiFi interface as a _WAN_ side and PPP-over-usbserial intreface as a _local_ connection.

In many cases Nokia’s WiFi hardware is far better than those built into notebooks. Also, pretty offen it is desirable to put the WiFi device apart, say, at the window, while sitting with the notebook at the desk. This all do matter when working on the go, in unpredictible places with extremely low signal level.

Taken that WiFi client, PPP, and routing functionality are already on board, it is only the proper configuration tool to be implemented.

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Nokia ! Do u wanna get back the market share ui lost to RIM n Apple?

If yes, come up with a device (specs metioned below) and if its not a blockbuster i’ll cut my cock n give it in ur hand

Form Factor: Communicator (E 90)
Display size: 2.4″ outside and 4.5″ or 6″ inside.
Full QWERTY keyboard just like e90
CPU: 2 CPUs of (1 x 600mhz for symbain and 1 x snapdragon for maemo). 1 to support symbiab platfoorm in the outer Screen and another to support Maemo inside.
Cam: 5mpix with Carl ziess
Memory: RAM 256 (symbian) and 512 x 1 (maemo)
Inbuilt memory: 32GB is sufficient.
Slim like apple air mac book

Now thts wot u call a concept which shud b and can only b commercialize by nokia

i m really in a hurry so have written in a haphazard manner..will edit it soon.

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Try to built an device that has the unibody design an iphone has. you can insert an slider qwerty.. but don make the phone feel like crap with 20 buttons on it 6-7 plastic parts that dont feel right in the hand..

unify

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looks like a iphone killer

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Hello Nokia
First of all thanks for such a survey
since I was expecting from you to express my opinions
In todays world technology is changing very fast and now mobile phones are a indispendable part of humanbeing.
Now i m using a smartphone of another company which is working under windows mobile. As to my thoughts:
in my phone every properties that i want exist but not exactly that i want
What i expect from a mobile phone:
1- It must be a good multimedia device such as Nokia N95:
i want to listen to music and radio, watch clips films etc.
without any software problems without thousand of settings or installing 3.rd party programs.
2- It must take good photos and videos. one can wants it anytime since it s not possible to carry a camera everytime.
3- it must have a quick and strong gps reciever since life is very fast and time is very important for people. i may need a gps anytime while i was going to one address, while searching for an office for hospital for shopping center etc.
4-it must be enough fast while i m using it since it s irritating to wait for the phone to response to your commands
5-it must have enough memory for installing programs
6- the touch screen properties should be certaily like iphone’s screen
7-it must have standard mini usb input and 3.5 input for the earphones. and it should be charged from usb when connected to pc.
8- it would be great if the radio will work without earphones
9- phone must have wifi and 3g opportunites
10- the programs must be enough and work stabil. I dont want to install 3.rd party programs for simple task, they must be dafault
11- the size must not be so big so small but it must be certainly thin not nore than 13-14 mm
12- there must be some hardware buttons for tkaing photo for volume adjusting volume for some basic tasks. optical input is usefull for most of the programs (samsung omnia has such an input)

if you ll design such a phone i ll be your first customer )))
thanks for your interest

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I am sorry to say my idea of the ideal smart phone does not fit what you are offering.

Keypads are always too small. Full size keyboard will not fit in a phone. So the combination I want that is not even on offer is a projection keyboard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection_keyboard + a decent size touch screen. Nice bit about a Projection Keyboard you can change the layout simply.

Same goes with screen size. Its never going to be big enough for all needs. Projection screen option.

Basically a phone that can be sat on desk protecting screen on wall/projection material and keyboard on desk so you can use little bit like a net-top while it sitting in the holder.

Basically so don’t need a laptop for business phone is the universal device.

Other major annoyance is why can you not plug a standard keyboard into a phone. Even if it has to go into the charging base. Not all of us like texting on phone pads.

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i have the nokia 5800 it’s pretty good but i wish it had a button to switch the screen to landscape and not the accelerometer. it would be great to have a key like the unlock button to switch to landscape and back to normal. That cause when you are doing multitasking, and you move your phone accidentaly, it can freeze some seconds till it get to the position and other seconds to get back…

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Can I have a screen ratio somewhere between 4:3 and 16:9?

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lookin forward

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appropriate price should be primarily After at least 5 mp camera third-party software can be easily obtained third-party software can be easily obtained stereo speakers and of course must have a satisfactory voice quality connectivity should be 3g and gprs wlan and others do not use the infrared not required

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I think one of the things not mentioned up there is the battery endurance and it should be improved just ’cause, why do I want a cellphone wich is more often off than on eventhough it is hypergeek.

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I think the N900 it´s very very good. I believe that´s the path to follow in terms of hardware and desing.
The key issue is the user experience

N900+android maybe?

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Done, That’s it!

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Oh Nokia. This is just silly. Don’t follow your customers, lead them.
This kind of move announces to the world that you have lost your way.
Your products demonstrate it.

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Where is the slider where I suggest you guys buy Palm, put your hardware and marketing muscle behind WebOS, and just ditch Symbian altogether? Look, I’m not just some crank, I pulled some strings and went to eBay so I could get the exact right model of E70 here in the US, and I liked that phone back in the day for what it was. The thing is, people like me today LOVE our iPhones for what that was not; simple, easy to use, and what things it does it does precisely and perfectly. If you want to compete with this next generation of phone your best bet is to grab Palm while it’s cheap, or else you guys will be relegated to making cheap little handsets that don’t inspire any kind of passion in your users.

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My favorite part is where it says “NOT AMBITIOUS ENOUGH” and doesn’t even show the Submit button until I add a keyboard layout designed in 1874.

Can I assume that it’ll come with a buggy whip holder, or would that be “TOO WAY OUT THERE”?

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There’s this great quote by Henry Ford: “If I had asked my costumers what they wanted, they would have told me ‘A faster horse!’”

So… Nokia, please do enjoy building a faster horse, while everyone else (RIM, Apple, Palm – although probably not for long anymore – and *HELL* even M$ – kind of) keeps on innovating…

Although, I’m still interested in the results of this experiment. Maybe design by community – which didn’t work for many open devices – will work for a closed company that will need to earn money from this.

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Finally – whatever you come up with, if it requires a user manual, it’s not designed well enough. Any phone that requires a manual is poorly designed, designed for your own engineers, not for your customers.

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A perfect mix is capacitive touchscreen, 8 MP camera (Zeiss optical), 3,5″ OLED display, Symbian 3 OS, AGPS and WiFi. But now is only a dream

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Take a look at the Pandora Handheld, they did lots of work about what users want in a very open way. That is the kind of phone I would want just with a phone cuz Pandora doesn’t have one. http://www.open-pandora.org

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Hi!

I really like the idea, to ask for people’s wishes in that way. But I guess, that most of really innovative aspects won’t be available to vote for.
Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love my N97, and if there will be a phone in the next two years with only bigger display and more RAM, so just slighly upgraded, it will me my next one.

But I’m dreaming of modular phones, just like computers, where I can change CPU, RAM and flashdrive, when I like to upgrade them, where I can use the operating system I like, and change it, if i like to, and I’m absolutely free, what kind of software I install on my device, without caring about licenses or sth like that.
Oh, and put it in a titanium casing

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Can we also have a decent OS like WebOS? Time and again Nokia has proven that it cannot handle software even on the level of current industry leading idiots like Microsoft. Just please put WebOS on it already. Either that or Android at least.

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I’ve never actually felt pity for a billion dollar company before, but I pity these people.

“If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse”
– Henry Ford

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Why is it that the smarter the phones get, the worse their call quality? And what’s the one thing no dealer ever lets you test out? Why am I still happy with my ancient 6236? Why was the 1100 the best selling personal electronic device of all time? How about stop ignoring your roots and revive a “feature” that made Nokia’s one of the best phones out there: simple, tiny, rugged phones that could run rings around the competition?

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A great setup, apparently, is to have a 5 inch, 21:9 screen ratio, HotKey+One touch, and then have a touchscreen keyboard on a non-touch screen.

Um, yeah.

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- Camera must with a Xenon flash (Optimal in the dark)
- Camera w/ Manual ISO
- universal Tripod Hole at the bottom smartphone
- Large Battery Capacity (minimal 1500 mA)
Recommended for Skype mobile or Fring (videocall/voicecall)
Qik (Live Video Broadcasting)
- Homescreen innovation ( minimal like N97)

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Conceptually the Motorola Milestone is the best option. Is missing a trackpad in fron to be able to surf wo opening the slider keyboard.

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it’ s very important use the most recent tecnology…today,a smartphone is used to make many more activity then a normal telephone…for this reason,is very important also the availability of a good interaction with the device

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Ok… I’m starting to think that there are a lot more stupid people than I realize.

To the folks that keep complaining about no choices of size, weigth or OS, just scroll down and read, you will be able to do it in the coming weeks.

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make it

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If you put an iphone’s specs in there it will tell you it is ot ambitious enough. How is it not ambitious enough. More than half of my friends have and iphone and ipod touch, and the rest have a blackberry or a samsung phone. The reason why the iphone sold so much, because it is simple. The thing i worry about is symbian. It looks outdated compared to the my motorola razr. i mean seriously get a new font. Nokia phones have a lot of capability, but i just want to see it have a more simpler and friendly looking os. (and resistive screens are out)

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non touch with some kind of mouse-like optical sensor. multimedia OS with app market, radio FM. mp3 like xpress music. full browser (html5, flash, ability to install other plugin). 768 mb RAM. background music. background internet browser.

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OMG, I would never structure such leading questions in a user interview. You’re just trying to justify a design/opinion that already exists or is in the works. Why else would you have your limited UI point to to only one solution? “Perfect Mix” to who? You?
Jason

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Interesting to see Steve Jobs described above as ‘Some Ambitious Guy’

thinkexist.com/quotation/you_can-t_just_ask_customers_what_they_want_and/219318.html

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Current phones are absurdly small and thin. I always carry mine on my belt, in a velcro’d or snapped pouch with belt loops, for both ease of access and security against theft. So as long as there’s a belt-loop pouch for it, make the phone big enough for an excellent screen, a reasonable keyboard, a heavy-duty battery, and a 32GB SDHC expansion card, along with the other usual things.

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Once again: unfortunately the discussion kind of degenerated into ‘beyond-ultra-high-end’ features.

In this spirit I could up the stake and ask for: 8 core processor, high-end 3D graphics 1920×1080 display, laser projector, camera with 10x zoom and so on.

The point is this is not a core(!) issue or in other words the core issue is not about the number of cores. It is about intelligent pack of features attractive to consumers, a la the iPhone, this is not necessarily tied to ultra high-end technology.

Consumers are not that interested in technology but in functionality, for example

- instant response time
- fluid operation of display in all circumstances
- perfect match of the user interface to human sensory
system

Remember, the iPhone success was due to the attraction of scrolling by touch, this does not require ultra-high-end hardware, right?

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jbk1971 Reply:
March 21st, 2010 at 6:50 pm

I talk about of Nokia, and I don’t like when other come to mention Iphone, and I don’t approve when you say people don’t like good technology features and they prefer the best functionality. The both are important.

I don’t suppose people come with the idea of ‘beyond-ultra-high-end’ features, be realistic, because if a manufacturer build a phone with a phone who run with a good velocity cpu, good memory shape and low energy consumption, you will agree your phone is equipped.
Also functionality is important to run smart and smooth, and it will be great if they work perfectly on the way to improve os, for a good compatibility between hardware and software.

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Stand by time should also be taken as a decisive feature.

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Perfect dream phone

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it should “thin”, “light” and “fast”. thats all.

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honestly, nokia has to think what to do in the field of smartphones. But this can not continue or competition is going to sweep the market.

what they need nokia smartphones are:

- A program for PC music and video catalog similar to itunes. The songbird might be an interesting alternative as it is very similar to itunes and is customizable with plugins. The most important thing is that you can do SmartLists (smart playlists) and that the library can be exported and imported. It would be ideal also to import itunes library.
- On the phone, an operating system with a simple interface, elegant and slightly charged. Would you care that regardless of phone model, any application could be installed on that operating system. I could be that there are applications that are only for one model of phone. It is a backward and touched the balls to the users.
- On the phone, that can run multiple applications simultaneously without the battery dies. Therefore, a processor that consumes very little power.
- Ability to play all the codecs and most popular formats: h.264, divx, avi, mkv, mp4, mp3, etc.
- Big screen, panoramic and tactile
- Gps FREE.
- Ability to save maps gps in the phone memory to avoid using too much internet access from the terminal.
- Camera between 3 and 5 Mpx flash.
- Ability to surf the internet like a normal computer. Interesting to install opera mobile! youtube also functioning (either with HTML5 or flash player, no matter, the issue is that it works)
- Target of more than 64GB of memory but are quick to write to them! It can not be take an hour to write 5GB of data! The SD-HD cards are shit!

And besides all this, it would be interesting:
- DVB-T (free)
- DVB-H (free?)

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The perfect smartphone must have:
8mp camera with xenon flash
videocall
touchscreen

Plese bring that smartphone to Portugal with tmn!!!

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Put Android please.

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new nokia smartphone features 3.5 inch capasitive touch screen and 4:3 screen format,super amoled screen,800*480 pixel screen and HD video recording, cpu 1ghz between 1.5 ghz 8 megapixel carl zeiss optics with xenon flash,symbian^3 and 3.5mm audio jack,thin and quality design,quality material

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multitouch and multitasking

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Please make a real professional phone ,i like the nokia phones but they are not a real professional phones:
- Great autonomy
- easy to use
- easy mail configuration
- Modem 7,2 mb
- precessor at least 624 mhz
- internal memory no more them 1 Gb
- Good ram and Rom
- Wifi ,etc…

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O HAI GUIZE MAH PHONE HAS NO TOUCHSCREEN WITH TOUCHSCREEN KEYBOARD!

I think you need to work on the options, Nokia.

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Current’s became aware that the touch-screen phone tic cycle widespread popular makes to me is the nokia company and the touch-screen phone tic about the best grab market share I believe that I could phone up but one day one day because of this olucaktır with nokia phones, iphone phone between the clear price The difference has to do of nokia phones to produce great-looking features, firstly by another unprecedented attention to the nokia phones should be removed

a great need for me to find nokia or other phone brands will provide prevention features include:

-buluetooth, infrared, wifi by their phone is also another type of connection and bonding must be too much of the range radio, analog television
must have the features and sayamıyacağım selling to

began to sense the consumer is now in design and features on the amount of the feature began to look I mean I hope hope you understand

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Radio without headphones as antenna, and
possibility to set radio or wlan web based radio as alarm tone.

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IMHO N900 is a good phone already. Perhaps even N97.

What Nokia should concentrate on is making the software WORK!

Apple has “all kinds of things” but what would really make a dent in their armor is a fully integrated suite of software. Calendar, mail, todo-list, notepad, picturepad, video/audiopad, contacts – and so on, all integrated into one working package that is easy and pleasurable to use. Apple software is often a pleasure to use, but the current iPhone offerings are lacking tremendously IMHO (I do own 3gs).

An external personal memory device. I mean we have the connectivity of 3g and wifi, we have gps for location, camera+mic for picture, video and audio, we have input as keyboard and touch (stylus for me would be a must), powerful processors for data management and display – and so on. What we are lacking is the superior software side of it.

Making a dream device is a completely useless endeavor if the software is not up to par with it. I mean that N900 linux repository hassle of installing software – software that will most certainly not integrate with other software! God awful mess.

Many software can be unique and in repositories, but the core of the experience should be very well thought out and defined. I have truly been wondering for years when will we start seeing this from Nokia, Apple or Palm. Somehow we are missing this link between human cognition and user interface. Apple does have some great elements that work superiorly in some cases, but they have not yet nailed it. This is a great opportunity for Nokia to bolster their position in the market and it cannot be done by just creating a dreamy device.

Hoping you guys could make something that would let me let go of this darn iPhone.

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Nokia usually gets it right when it comes to phones and features where others fail hard.

I hope they pwn the market with this. Also, Nokia you guys should keep in my modularity and interchangeability.
Fewer reasons to send IN a phone for something, the better.

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Kudos to Nokia for giving consumers the opportunity to design a mobile phone but I have my doubts as to whether any single individual’s preferences will be wholeheartedly fulfilled as these results will no doubt be spliced and diced to create the generic mobile that will suit the majority because the bottom line is making money. iChairs.com

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Im pitching in my recommendations in this article c”,
http://gregg003.blogspot.com/2010/03/whats-next-for-nokia-e72.html

Hope it counts!

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There’s no option for operating system?
I need a phone that’s rooted by default, I want to open the box and have a bash terminal that can do ANYTHING to the phone, maybe even compile C++ programs.

And resistive touchscreen.

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interesting idea

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I’m not satisfied with the choices you have to vote! what the hell is a hot key?

Listen retards!!
Make a phone like the palm pre and one like palm pixi namely a CANDY BAR hybrid (touch+qwerty)!!!! Make it solid, throw in all the bells and whistles one can imagine and make it thin, MAKE IT YOUR FLAGSHIP PHONE! Then you’re gonna become competitive otherwise you will be irrelevant in 3years.

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Hi,

Please don’t design something out of a geekish mind. History proved that geeks & techies are unable to build an amazing product, there is a good reason why Jobs is leading Apple and not Woz.

Now getting something completely new is very hard and not really necessary at the moment. Nokia is all about innovation and creation but we’re yet to see a iPhone/Android/Palm class handset from Nokia.

However trying to improve on something that is already there is recommended. Take the N900 add a capacity screen, make it slimmer change the chasing with something made out of metal, improve cpu & memory,maybe camera, the keyboard is fine, improve battery life.

When Jobs and Gates were in an interview and were asked to say one good thing about the other one Steve said that he admires Bill Gates because he realized first that “it’s all about the software”. That’s what Nokia lacks, amazing software and the will to let go of Symbian for high end phones. Maemo is a step in the right direction but it took years to get it here while Apple is miles away in usability and Google is not far behind. And where is Nokia? “portrait mode will be available in future updates” really??!! PORTRAIT MODE will be available sometimes next year in a PHONE? Sure you can call it a mobile computer but stick a SIM in it and a way to dial numbers and you’ve got a phone!!

Bottom line improve on hardware but innovate in software go MeeGo in the high end and leave Symbian for the masses, get the developers out of the debian repositories an into Ovi Store, create clear guidelines for development, easy to use tools, developer help websites that are easy to access and free.

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great !!

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Just wondering (as many others might too) why can’t we submit opinions which are ‘too way out there’ since you’re collecting contribution from community?

You should collect user demands, not actually limiting their ‘creativity’ by making it impossible to submit ‘ultimate’ ideas since we´re now talking about concept / various concepts – not product.

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Cannot see the submit button. It’s missing !!

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put multi touch option on it

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Hello Nokia Terve,

Make the new phone really green please.
why not solar-powered?
How about an army green color and a rugged waterproof rubber finish for outdoor activities and swimming/scuba?
Please let it have 2 simcards capability.
Keep the cost down in my part of the world they get stolen a lot.
Good luck with this camel phone made by a committee just like the animal:)
Best regards,
Danielle

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I think this will be the ultimate design…

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If you are design the phone for the masses, do the ‘masses’ in Africa has access to the internet to fill in this form? Only techies sitting in plush cubicles will be able to fill this form with ‘their’ requirements of a phone. Send a bunch of your designers on an African safari, with just a pair of pants and a water bottle or better send them to a flood/earthquake affected are.

Your phone should work without the need for a charging station(go green with crank-able units), water-proof it, drop-proof, dust-proof, with radio for emergency news, and a GPS.

Good luck with your efforts.

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What does Nokia need to lead in phones?
1- wide sscreen phone with led lights and easy user-friendly touch screen. and fast interacting in real-time responding in no time, opening smoothly it doesn’t have to be symbian os but may be new system which is much more easy and open source or just through ovi and nokia approves the programmes.
2-May be some more widely and interactive environment for music and videos and all that stuff.
3- you tube and google is a must have in phone and it would be great if we can record the videos on our phone from youtube.
4-the whole chitty stuff of others would be a good point for nokia
i.e. like no programme required to control the phone as a hard disk or storage place. also may be the VOIP services to be allowed on nokia ’s new phone.
THE greatest IDEA of all time is to give like voip service with so cheap international calls like BETAMAX.GMPH on nokia phone as a must ….that will kill others cause people will use it like hell.
5-skype ….. skype….. and skype fully functional on 3g and with high audio and video quality will kill all others.
6-office and word applications will get a great share of people to buy the phone.
7-A decent email application will also get more customers into the phone.
8-all the messengers that are needed like msn or yahoo or icq needs to be on and ith voice also.
9-picture handling and software for it.
10-songs and mp3 player inside with great features.
11-gps of course it is ok but more fast.
12-open source and more people to participate plz.
may be i add more when i wake up cause it is was long day at work
thanx

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the weight is also essential

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thanks for caring

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It is not clear what they wanted to make this decision. But if the task was to find out the preferences and needs of consumers, the resulting statistics will be very much distorted.

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I think I see something interesting in these comments, maybe make a calling device that traces the emotion in a persons voice during the call and reads it to a system that converts it to a signature and attaches it to your contact list so you know the persons mood the last time you talked with them. I’d def buy that. and if you don’t implement it, another company will.

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RAZR… now THAT was a phone!

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early adopter

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2010 is a video Time and World Cup Time for wireless Internet

Texas Insruments has published his new prejection micro chip solution fo mobile phone.
TI DLP’s Pico chipset will change the way consumers interact with their mobile devices
and home electronics, allowing them to share content and experiences with friendsand family.

As the 3G wireless network become more and more matured ,the video online
show websites such as youtube are growing fast,so the the video Time for mobile phone
industry is really coming!

The perception ability of human being body are divide to several kingds such as touch
feeling,taste feeling ,auditory feeling ,smell feeling ,vison feeling and telepathy,
but the last one is difficult to be controled and quantified .

The traditionnal communication industry focus on the auditory feeling part ,
in another word the important thing is voice phone function ,the other else is
the data business depend on the internet such as go through the word website
or short message business.I have no any interest for video phone function for
3G mobile phone ,because even you stare at the face of other guys when you have
a 3G phone call you can not get more information from their face .

But the vedio internet online show is big different ,especially for different
topics to show the content,it almost can take all the vison of real world as
the content for video.So that is the potential development for video in wireless
network Time.

Smart phone is a ideal mobile terminals ,it is the best video palying platform
in the wireless internet Time.Usually the video do not need high quality picture
and big data size ,but the impportant information is logic and direction.

For example,when you want to show a physical trial of a medical operation to
other peoples from internet , you just give them the important process information
and the audience will understand the logic and directions .To compare with the
voice phone and written word ,the video show become more easy and visualization,
and usally to do somthings is more easy than to write somthings and to talk about
some things.

The reason is that lots of people have low level langue and write ability ,but
their action ability is good .So the video is good communication way for them .

As the development of TV,the broadcasting lose its bright trend ,because TV
can transfer more content to the audience ,and the time is more convenient,
and tv is easy to be understand.

Today the wireless internet industry is very lucky ,because all the resource from
broadcasting and TV is easy to be reused.And the video record devices become
more and more cheap .Every one who have a mobile device can be a producer of video.
The same as BBS and Blog ,the quantity of intetnet articles author is growing fast.
In the future the video industry will cover all the smart phone user!

Long long ago ,nokia ever have used a word that connecting people.At that Time,
nokia phone have a kind of simplify beauty .it is simple ,easy to be used,
even someone is not very clever can use nokia phone simply .The user book is
useless for lots of nokia customers .The old nokia products have a simple style
like AK47 have a simple culture ,such as nokia 3310,it have lots of defects
as very big ,very thick ,and very heavy.But the stong signal and reliability
are very good ,so in the rural area the farmers love it .

Today the design style of nokia is opposite ,cumbersome became the important
topic of nokia.All of the nokia products become difficult to be assembled ,
difficult to be tested ,and difficult to be used . when apple develop iphone
they have well learned the simple spirit of old nokia ,iphone can be only
seperated to several parts ,so that is very easy to be assembled and very easy
to be test and made .that is a easy work for Foxconn ,especially compare
with nokia projects .

Iphone is develop for used by idiot and assembled by idiot ,but who developed iphone
is not idiot.Steve is talent!If you have a look for the annual profits earned
by iphone,and compare that with nokia ,however nokia have hunderds sizes of
LCD components and hundreds kinds of mobile phone ,but theirs profit is a joke .

What is the advantages for iphone ?it is only easy ,easy to be used ,especially
the multi-touch point technology. What is more , the strong expressive force for
music,photos,video ,and internet.But all of those is depended on the big size
display.

So Ipad have a very big size,when Ipad get ready for sell,it will be a slaughter
for nokia and other traditional mobile phone manufacture company .

You will find that you do not need a smart phone again,except the vioce phone function,
for the online video show ,go through internet ,Ipad will have the best expressive force .

Why you still waste money to by a smart phone? because Ipad can not make a phone call?
That is very easy ,but it will influence the sale of iphone !Steve want sell both
iphone and ipad to the customers.

In fact ipad is a smart 3G mobile phone!Yeah,what I have said is very exactly.
To add a voice function for ipad is very easy,and the 3g time the most important
work of smart phone is go through internet ,voice function is not the most important.
If you really need vioce fuction ,a old phone of 10 yeas ago can help you.

The exactly defination of ipad is the biggest 3G smart internet mobile phone.
Its competitors are smart phone ,for the light weight,long time battery and size
you will find that ipad is a nuclear weapon prepared by Steve Jobs for
the wirless internet time ,so ipad is a big size iphone and have been locked
voice function.

Today all the loser such as Nokia ,Intel ,and Microsoft get together to against
with apple and google.They are passed time ,they are lack of idea of success .
If you want to be succeful in the new time ,you must provide some products which
is easier to be used and more opened than iphone.

What?! you afaid that customers will complain that you product is too big?
Just let them to complain!When MOTOROLA opened the first cell network in america ,
all of the customer complain that the signal is not stable and the phone is too
big and expensive!But when MOTO plan to closed the network all of them complain
more seriously.After a transfer period your customer will be used to love such kind
big size smart phone .

Maybe such kind phone is difficult to be put into pocket of jacket ,but why
not to let the fashion cloth company to modify the size of pocket ?
Or you can sell a backbag with you big phone to your customer!

Have you ever seen the brick at the roadside ?You can find that to use a hand
to pick up a brick is easy .Yeah !The size of 3G wireless internet time smart phone
should be like that ,Sony PSP is a suitable size,and it is bigger than iphone.
the bigger display size than iphone and other smart phone is more useful to play game
and video.Also you can go through internet very comfortable.

Have a look on ipad ,dear baby ,if you want to defeat apple!Firstly you must have a
big display size ,you can not be little than apple.

The enough big size display can guarantee you can play the competition with laptop,
mobile tv ,professional GPS ,and mobile handset game players.

Big is beatiful and simple is beautiful.The more big size and easy to be used product
will be loved by the customers.Take care of what I have said ,for the next 10 years of
mobile device industry ,that is the trend!

So when look back for todays mobile device such as nokia n900 ,that is a mosquito,
especially the small LCD like a stamp .How can you go through internet ,and watch video?
If I want to buy cloth ,I want to choose vacation spot,I want search maps,or I want
share photos with my friends ,all of that need big size display!However the LCD can not
use a big size ,60 inchs is the biggest limit.

But the projection technology is coming!As Texas Instuments have published
the microchip solution for mobile phone projection function ,in the next several
years the projection technology will developing soon and the key point is the
update of optical and lense technology !

There still need some thing to open the first step of video time for wireless internet,
the most suitable one is the football World Cup in South Africa 2010,as what I haved
mentioned in <>,<>,
The economic depression period is the golden developing time for the entertainment
industry.

So you can see that the film named Avatar is so successful,the same as 1929 times ,
the Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse all born in that time .The World Cup hold in
june is the most important entertainment activities in the world ,it will have a
great influence to the world .

To watch world cup by mobile phone become possible,so which mobile phone company can
make big progress on live broadcast the video of World Cup will win the first important
battle of video 3G wireless internet time.

But please do not take any expectations with Nokia ,Nokia is a loser without any
initiative spirit! I really do not know which kind of animals right now manage
this company ,especially in china ,all the action and policy are funny and humour.

Before long nokia have signed a contract that to cooperate with a british education
company to develop the english education business on the mobile phone .

But I have never heared that company ,nokia always to wastes lot of money to do
some thing without any significance .Do all the nokia people not know that
the most successful english education company in china is New Orient?

New Orient education is also the biggest langue education company in china .
That is very easy ,just to sign a contract and provide the live english education
video online,so nokia and new orient just follow the profict rate to earn money.

Why nokia have found a british company no one have ever heared? This project must
decide by a stupid pig!

The only great successful work of nokia in china during the 20 years is feed some
stupid pigs in a sunshine building in Bei Jing BDA!

Some thing else in 2010 is the second time Falklands War between Argentina and British,
it will become the first war live broadcast by mobile phone.What is the result?
I use one dollars to bet argentina will win!If you can not trust me,just watch the
live broadcast on your mobile phone.

After this war broadcast by the mobile phone ,you will find lots of customers have
watched online video to learn news,watch education informations,watch films,
take daily video record,and share video with theirs friends.Every one can be a director
and speechmaker,your mobile phone will share your video to all of the world.

2010 is a video time for wireless internet ,South Africa World Cup is the gold key to
open this time!After that a new information revolution will start,especially the
data bandwith and data follow problems,all the telecom operators will bore of the
fast increaseing data requirement is always over their network afford limit.

2010 ,the video storm will very crazy !

BR

ANDY

2010.03.20

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Nice concept.

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just simple

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touch screen

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nokia is slepping please wake up

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Well, for me Nokia was building its name through 6600, 6630, 6670, 6680 which later become N-series. All this devices were geek phones, and few years ago all reviews in the media was about this geek devices. Anyone remember N90.

You killed N-Gage app ??? OK. games are in store now but still…
Go for some nice games, like N-gage1.
My graphic dedicated chip in N82 was never used, You have good hardware but it is not used.

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Somebody please tell me this “constrained” slider thing is a joke!

Luckily some of the comments in this blog have some substance, or this initiative would be a total waste of money. Too bad the best comments IMHO are ripping on this obviously leading “research” methodology.

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Dual slide will count? And how about the kick stand?

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I keep reading all those useless comments and keep wondering how will Nokia pick the useful stuff from the junk.

People are mostly bitching about functionality they are missing in their old phones.

Probably the only interesting suggestions are from N900 owners and I agree with them: make the next N900/MeeGo phone even better and make sure you advertise it!
I really mean ADVERTISE IT (especially here in US)!!! People need to know that you are still making good phones.

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The design is important, but in a minor scale.
I recommend to think about the software.
So, I’d like to see an Android-based Nokia phone.
Let’s do something new…

Regards.

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wonderful

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The most important characteristic of a mobile phone is fuctionality. So, a device with a slide and tilt form and a 4 inch screen would be the perfect. Also, it is important for this device to have a navigation pad or a mouse ball under the screen for easy to use navigation over the applications!!!

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i would like a slim monoblock with a full qwertz keyboard and without a camera! So width shouldn’t be too extreme to be usable with european fingers

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For a phone for communicate, basically I only want a 7390 with latest Series 40 and maybe slightly bigger size. I use 7390 for phone call and N97 for everything else, I can buy more powerful nokia phones to replace my N97, but I cannot replace my 7390 because there is no such work of art nowaday.

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christexaport Reply:
March 23rd, 2010 at 5:00 pm

Once again, the options setup isn’t optimal. I would love to be a part of the Nokia Conversations staff so I could’ve contributed to a better layout of this idea harvest.

For one, there should’ve been actual devices to depict a basic rendition of common form factors, with the understanding they were general concepts that could be modified further. For instance, have an iPhone represent the slate, Palm Pre for sliding portrait, N900 for sliding landscape, Razr for clamshell, N93 for transforming, an LG VX9400 for a swivelling display, and a few prototype drawings if they introduce something compelling and realistic.

Secondly, the form should’ve eliminated options that are negated by previous choices, like a nontouchscreen device with an on screen keyboard.

Third, what about competing devices? How about a clone or adaptation of the LG GW990, N97, E70, or Milestone form factors? Are they considered optimistic or realistic? How far is Nokia willing to innovate vs. imitate vs. lag behind?

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What I’m waiting for here is a mashup of the Nokia 7100 from back in the day, the nokia 8800 carbon and the functionality of the 5310 with an added infrared (remote control!)

7100:
- slider that springs downward at the touch of a button and does “CLACK”
- the user experience of the roller (smooth!) as opposed to the 4way navigation clit button thing

8800:
- build quality
- sober “I mean business, and look good while taking care of things” design

5310:
- bluetooth
- MP3 + microSD
- 3.5″ audio jack
- 2mp fixed focus camera (not even that necessary, you can throw the camera out for all I care. If I need a camera, I’ll whip out a Nikon L20 or D300 depending on what to shoot)

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make a decent phone nokia!

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Zoltan Reply:
March 31st, 2010 at 3:11 pm

They did, it’s called N900

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size depends mostly on the screen, i don’t want a too small phone because of that, slide format is great for touch phones with qwerty keyboard I don’t find tilt of high importance

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This is funny – the SUBMIT BUTTON shows up only when the parameters are tweaked beyond ‘Not ambitious enough’. This is a flawed poll – let zero tweaks count as well … Right Nokia ?

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Flashy is cool, but I would much rather have performance and functionality over ooos and awwws. Multitouch is pretty much essential. Decent camera, good storage. Angle of the screen as you slide it out. Seems like qwerty is pretty much awesome too. BATTERY LIFE!

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i wish nokia could put down the frame work to support other os’s on the n900 so we can opt out of meamo .

since they only half ass support it would like to run android an os that wont break cause an app wont run correctly and if something goes wrong why does a user have to use command-line for a device to reflash there phone there is only one answer lack of support and laziness

every other company has a device the can be hard and soft reset not the n900 need command line for that cause soft reset does nothing but erase apn giving the user a mobile landline as you can’t text or surf the web.
let talk about the great flashing interface for other phone os’es shall we windows mobile is packed into a slick application where you connect your device press with the mouse and your phone is flashed and others like palm and apple you connect your device to a slick user friendly interface where you connect your device downloads it flashes it to your device no nokia updater does not work that well and is not fully supported by expanding its compatibility with from old to new os just like windows 7 is not supported they only had a beta copy out for yr plus but hey why bother writing software for it right?? right??? get your act together or go to an Mobile os that you don’t need to support cause google will do it like android. or release the drivers to this phone the n900 which is admittedly and how dare you by the way sell a user an unfinished hardware product with hardware level flaws just to meet your launch date other companies just inform of delays not nokia though let just ship it out and patch what we can your lucky you don’t have a class action law suit on your door steps

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superg05 Reply:
March 24th, 2010 at 4:21 am

oh and another thing we all know the real reason you did not put mms on the phone so you either need to do it or make a work around using your servers oh an btw if you don’t fix the n900 or add mms support and meego i can guarantee i will start an online viral champagne against you not to buy a nokia product with both paper fliers and websites and videos and mass email champagnes and trust me when i say this i have alot of free time to translate into multiple languages don’t try me i may not be able to fully damge you in the world but i could make your sales in the us drop to crap and make you look bad to mobile carriers and there are a ton of evil hating apple users glad to help out thanks for your time bye now

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N97 + Android will be perfect for me~

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