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TagBlackberry, Psion, Nokia & styli at #MWC17: nostalgia hasn’t felt this good for a while
Novel concepts were not absent from Mobile World Congress 2017, but the honeyed lamplight of nostalgia proved the stronger lure for journalists:
- Alcatel TCL launched the Blackberry-branded KeyOne with a physical keyboard
- HMD anchored its r…
I ship Pokia, a tale of youth trends and unrequited smartphone partnerships
You can learn a lot from conversations with eleven year olds, it seems. This one came via my partner, whose colleague had brought her eleven year old daughter to work. Asked how she was and what she’d been doing recently, she replied, breezil…
Why are these mobile interactions from Apple, Blackberry, Nokia & Huawei memorable?
Small moments of interaction design have disproportionate power to define the overall user experience.
Consider pinch to zoom. There was a time when it was novel, now it is innate. The speed at which it has become part of human behaviour tells …
Forcing innovation at Nokia
By virtue of the legal agreements resulting from Microsoft’s acquisition of its devices and services business, Nokia finds itself in an intriguing position. It retains ownership of a valuable consumer brand, but is legally unable to use it in rela…