Comments on: Nokia Concept Designs: Charger, UI, digital upgrades

By: charlie

charlie — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:24:31 +0000

@stefan Just to let your readers know, we have a ton of articles on the design event over at http://conversations.nokia.com. We also have a video looking at these concepts.

@bazza I like your thinking.

By: anant

anant — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:51:40 +0000

Come on Nokia we admire u get ur Tube phone ready bash the iphone men. Get a load of uploads ready for ur existing devices via firmware updates . Then concentrate in this marvel. The problem is u develop too too many phones and fail to cater to all of them in R&D.

By: thexcode

thexcode — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:59:50 +0000

bazza, i’ll have some of whatever you are smoking

By: Topy

Topy — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:05:49 +0000

Less concepts and more devices like E71!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:33:10 +0000

1. This doesn’t sound advanced, more like something Nokia Beta Labs will knock out.

2. About as advanced as a toaster.

3. Either they’re talking about expanding the software in the same way that is already possible, or they’re talking about adding upgrades to chips like making the chips go faster, or turning an EDGE chip into an HSDPA chip, which is something that I think every component manufacturer on the planet would like to be able to do. It’s hardly likely that anyone’s ever going to develop a software upgrade that can turn a 486 into a Xeon.

By: bazza

bazza — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:51:40 +0000

Never say never. It may take one very bold (foolish?) company to throw out the rule book and start a new one.

But then again, we are humans and profit rules over betterment of the species.

Oh well, back to the weed…uh…i mean herbal tea.

By: bazza

bazza — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:47:36 +0000

^_^ A lil crack here and there and boom, you discovered a new breakthrough in science. Just dont write that part on your report. lol

By: ayush3090

ayush3090 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:41:41 +0000

@bazza

dude you ARE on drugs dude :p

nice dream btw

By: Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:23:52 +0000

i think you’re on drugs =P! that kind of thing will never happen, they’d rather you buy a new phone. this is all about adding features via software.

By: bazza

bazza — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:19:18 +0000

All fine ideas, but its a shame they cant be implemented now.

The “Wears in, not out” concept i think means that you can have a device that has future-proof hardware, but software upgradeable without any dip in performance or the need to envy a new device. Of course we can upgrade via firmware today and thus extend the life of a device at least a few months, but i think this concept goes beyond and maybe into a abit of science fiction.

Imagine an N95 that had hardware that can be upgraded physically via software. That internal 120MB ram could be transformed into 16GB, the 5Mpx camera module into a 10Mpx …and so on and so forth. Abit farfeteched indeed but not impossible when you have your pdevice built around nanotechnology. Specially built circuit boards and chips that can rearange their makeup according to certain commands, thus if the manufacturer so wished, they could announce a new feature for the phone and instruct owners to download and upgrade.
DYNAMIC HARDWARE!! THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE!! (patent pending)

Yes, it does have its disadvantages, it is very far off in the future, it could be very much impractical and it may not be exactly what that concept meant…..but its cool regardless, and afterall thats what concepts are.