Sunday Art Experience: Nokia illustration

Schools starting, holidays ending; autumn has come! We wish you a merry fall with our Nokia / Stephen Elop illustration. Keep going with the good stuff!

Mobile typography: Nokia Sans

 a look at Erik Spiekermann's typeface for Nokia

"Well, like all letters, the important thing is that you don’t actually design the black, you design the white: the space inside it and the space around it." - Spiekermann on screen fonts (PingMag 2005)

The Moto X flick switch

 

The Motorola Moto X probably needs no introduction at this point in time. The upcoming smartphone that's been developed by Motorola and Google closely together is to be announced 1st of August. Until then the rumor mill rides on with some reinforcements we read about recently.

The hype machines

At the PhoneSplurt HQ we have some very talented illustrators working and this is what we found laying around on their computers. After all, we always check what our employees are up to every week.

Video: LWUIT webinar on building an effective UI

Earlier this spring, Nokia introduced the new Asha 501 to "reinvent the affordable smartphone category". It is a very interesting phone we must say, possibly it is at the forefront of a trend that places phones with lesser spec sheets back into focus for consumers.

Nokia Series 40 Full Touch Design Guidelines

Following our last couple of posts about user experience and user interface design, PhoneSplurt dug even deeper. What we found out is something helpful and relevant even today, from the Nokia Series 40 Full Touch Design Guidelines page.

Nokia Lumia 1020 Presentation in New York City

The Nokia Lumia 1020 was officially presented today in New York City. Above is the footage streamed live by CNETTV from the event.
The actual presentation starts at around 16 minutes in.
CEO Stephen Elop steps in after an introduction cinematic and starts by emphasizing how Nokia recognized people's passion for pictures early on into the mobile game.

Clever marketing tactics

Photo: Verkkokauppa.com

PhoneSplurt spotted a Facebook advertisement with a seemingly nice deal for festival participants this summer. A closer look at the actual products included in the package revealed something incredibly simple but amazingly clever.

Nokia exploded view advert

Nokia just released this interesting commercial that features an exploded view motion graphic showcasing the camera optics in the Nokia Lumia 925. The new flagship sure is interesting, with a metal frame and a plastic (polycarbonate) back cover(1). Sounds a bit squeaky to us so far!

Nokia N9 UX Guidelines

PhoneSplurt just recently discovered this interesting website aimed at developers for the Nokia N9. The handset in question is undoubtedly one of our favorites when considering both hardware and software design.

A few looks at mobile handset industrial design

PhoneSplurt gathered here a few videos that look into how mobile handset companies handle industrial design.

Visual design principles according to mobile manufacturers

Following our last night's post about iOS, PhoneSplurt delved deeper into the software visual design ideals of different mobile handset companies. Below are a few fruitful links we found!

Nokia E7-00 drawn review

Nokia E7-00 unboxing and review video

Last weekend we had the Nokia E7-00 smartphone in our test bench. Below you can find a video of how PhoneSplurt again covered great distances to grab the smartphone for your eyes to behold. A more in-depth post on the E7-00 will follow soon.

Nokia Lumia 800 unboxing & review video

Following our last photo set and small review on the Lumia 800, here is a video review of the Nokia smartphone also featuring the unboxing event in our rural setting. Enjoy.

PhoneSplurtTV!

PhoneSplurt is happy to announce its first video on the Internet. It's a short unboxing of the Nokia 5530 Xpressmusic cell phone. Check it out below.

Jolla!

Link to es-phoneblogs more detailed post on this.

Detailed N9 specs.

Detailed Lumia 800 specs.

Lumia 800

The phone you see here is the Nokia Lumia 800. What have I heard about it? It's running Windows Phone 7, it's not made in Finland, there's no support for Windows Phone 8 operating system whenever that comes out. 

True or false, a lot of these statements had a certain tone of voice. That made PhoneSplurt very eager to find out how much fun this device actually is. None of the sources coming up with their claims really said that Lumia 800 is a bad smartphone. So maybe they're trying to hide something?

The color scheme on our test model is two-colored: cyan and black. They make a pretty mix, and the look of the WP operating system fits the design n-i-c-e-l-y.

Sharing photos is fast and easy, since most parts of the operating system feature immediate share functions within them.

This is a panorama shot we took with the Creative Studio app. Intense!

The boxes that Lumia 800s are packed in looked pretty nice so we decided to give them a shot. That's a lot of phones to test right there! Oh I wish it was...

The biggest kick we got out of the Lumia 800 was the thing that Nokia most often does. It delivers products that are very much tied to the moment of their production, even by their looks. This phone oozes the early 2010s. This means the Lumia 800 will be able to deliver feelings of nostalgia when you find it laying around in your attic in 2022.

The Lumia 800 is however a phone manufactured by multi-national companies.

The cherry on top of it all: the 8 megapixel Carl Zeiss camera. Now what's the verdict boys?

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Nokia N95 8GB

Hello and welcome to PhoneSplurt. This is a blog featuring mostly photographs and illustrations of the latest smartphones. We will also be covering some older smartphones in our blog.

The main point of this blog is to share imagery of smartphones and have fun making those images. You can expect something creative and crazy stuff.

Again, you are very welcome and we hope you enjoy the things you see. Now let's kick off the blog with a smartphone classic.

The Nokia N95 8GB in 2012 isn't actually a painful sight. The old flagship has sustained most of its elegance. The plastic body looks and feels solid: it doesn't creak or squeak.

The slider keyboard is in great shape as well. Notice those media keys in the introduction pic? They also work great with the software although I've been rather cynical about Symbian as long as I can remember. The OS v9.2 works pretty smoothly on this one.

The best feature of the phone has to be the camera. Even today it takes incredibly crisp images. Also the adjustments you can make in the camera app are more than generous. The video-editing tool is another great app on this one.

Connectivity options include the likes of a mini-USB port, Bluetooth and even Wi-Fi, which works fine altogether with the browser. For example, watching YouTube videos proved to be no problem at all for the N95 8GB.

 Nowadays the N95 8GB sure looks chubby, but it still has "quality" written all over it. The fat looks at least hide fat features. We've listed some in the pic below.

 The N95 8GB is still loads of fun in 2012. The OS is a bit of a mess but responds quickly. The camera is more than capable when you need to take a quick snap and you don't have your no.1 camera nearby. This handset receives a 5/5 rating from PhoneSplurt! It's a true classic.