Vote on What to Include in the Next Nokia Phone
Ever wanted to design your very own mobile phone? Well, Nokia has you covered with their community building poll focused solely on giving users the power to choose which elements they want in a theoretical concept phone.
How does it work? Well, the Finnish company uploads three different designs or attributes and lets community members cast a vote on which particular element they would like to see on a Nokia mobile phone unit. Sounds simple, right? It is. And it does seem to get a lot of consumers buzzing about whatever popular part gets voted in.
This is a way to get consumer feedback on which designs are appealing as compared to others. In recent years, Nokia has not been able to garner bas much attention and support as the Cupertino based Apple and devices carrying the open source operating system, the little green Google Android. Fortunately for them, they have survived by tapping into the smart dumb phone market, releasing nice budget phones that will not make the headlines but will surely give the masses a practical option.
Of course, this does not mean that the Finnish company, which was once at the top of the game, is already happy with their success. According to July’s YouGov Poll, the interest in their brand of handsets has taken a nose dive. To be specific, the interest has gone down a whopping 12 percent.
The concept phone project will hopefully lift this number in the following months. Started in March, the number of design submissions has reached the 72,000 mark already, with winning designs sporting an 8 megapixel snapper (4x optical zoom), unlimited multitasking and a 4-inch capacitive display. The final sketch will be made into a 3D rendered model and will be showcased for all to see in Nokia’s Conversations blog.
In these heady days where technology news moves at the speed of the internet (just below the speed of light because, like most internet users, the internet is fond of the odd doughnut or ten), we constantly find ourselves feeling about as speedy as a second class snail mail letter in these strike-ridden days.
Even the limited nature of the blog sometimes challenges us. What’s that Samsung? You’re releasing a new phone that is identical in every way to your previous phone in this line, only there are 0.8 more megapixels on the camera and it also comes in Cobalt Jack Flash Blue Tints? Whoop-de-doooo, let us get straight on and write a blog post about that pronto. Or, what say you over there Mr S Ericsson, you’re releasing a brand new super exclusive new phone that is in just about every single way identical to Samsung’ and Motorola’s and HTC’s and etc. and so on’s brand new super exclusive phone in the same category? Then again, let us wheel out our magic blog dictionary and find some words to jumble together for.
We’ve seen this thing described as a hybrid between the Nokia 5800 and Nokia 5530… however, us being us (i.e. crass, cheap, provocative and just downright rude), we like to think of the 
Rarely has a phone’s title (especially one from the notoriously bland-naming Nokia) done such a good job of summing up a phone that it actually leaves us slightly lost for words. Us! Lost for words! Amazing, isn’t it.
The 
Nokia have always built solid, durable phones with decent battery lives. In fact, we know people who are still using Nokia’s with LCD screens from about seven years ago that are still going strong. Not so with so many other manufacturers of course, especially in these days of new 18-24 month contracts. Because a disturbing trend happened in the days of 12 month contracts in which phones started to get built just for the length of that contract and no more. So that if you waited, say, 14 months, you’d suddenly find that your battery was barely lasting a day, your screen looked like it wanted to go into retirement and the whole casing started to feel just a little bit like it was going to fall apart in your hands. And don’t get us started on how mayfly-like iPods are…