Videos: Nokia: How will we be using our mobile devices in 2 to 4 years?
By Stefan Constantinescu on Thursday, October 1st, 2009 at 6:33 AM PST In Nokia
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) threw a lot of money at Kevin Cannon and Tobias Toft, both are taking a course at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. Nokia asked him how the mobile phone will change in 2 to 4 years, and how today’s young tech savy people needs will change as they “grow older and their lives change focus”. They did some research, interviewed 4 people, and found 3 areas to focus on: “Playfulness”, “Staying Connected”, and “People Centric”. Here are the concept videos they’ve released:
Pretty off the wall stuff, but how much of it is actually useful? We get it, people want to play with their phone, people want to stay connected, and people don’t want to interact with their friends in abstract application terms, but what have these two guys actually done that will end up in a Nokia device at some point in 2013? Nothing. What will Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Palm (NSDQ: PALM) or Google (NSDQ: GOOG) be up to by 2013? I can’t tell you, and neither can these kids. The people working on the 2013 UI are already slaving over a hot computer keyboard, prototyping ideas, and getting yelled at by Steve Jobs, Andy Rubin or Jon Rubinstein.
When Nokia will make such things, Sharp, ant other Japanese companies like Fujitsu, or Nec, or even Samsung will make them before Nokia. The third video was cool, the first and second not really, I think those things have the new Japanese phones.
I actually liked all of these.. It’s obvious these aren’t some new killer features on the next E-series, but sometimes little things like these that appeal more to your emotions than your sense might make an unexpected difference.
Stefan – While I completely respect your point of view, I’m interested to know where you got the impresssion that Nokia ‘threw a lot of money’ at Kevin and Tobias to come up with this concept?
This project came out of a two-week industry workshop that Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design did in collaboration with (not for) Nokia…for free.
Nokia were really impressed by this and other ideas that were generated and prototyped in such a short period of time. Perhaps you’d like to take a look at the course microsite before jumping to any further conclusions.
http://dkds.ciid.dk/py/industry-project-nokia/overview/
http://ciid.dkds.dk/
Thanks for the link! From experience, I’ve seen how Nokia throws a lot of money at designers to come up with concept work. I worked there for 13 months and that was the source of my claim. Nice to know this stuff was for free.