Has Nokia run out of ideas?

Over at Mobitopia , Russell Beattie looks at Nokia ’s new cellphones , and wonders , has their phone figure stalled ?

[ I]t seems to me much of Nokia ’s raw design have been simply a combining of bats keypad layout and ever - so - slenderly differently shaped bodies . The DIY cover on the 3200 helped have it away this sort of thing up a bit ( because it is a neat idea ) but from a canonic industrial invention distributor point of horizon , the earphone itself is n’t very much unlike than all the * rest * of the multimedia system phone that Nokia offers .

And he has a point . Even when Nokia does take some risks , like with the 6800 or the N - Gage , they still appear reasonably much like the same tiresome Nokia phones we ’ve all see before , just more or less dissimilar in some way . It gives you the horse sense that they may have just run out fresh ideas for how a speech sound could look . Samsung , Siemens , and Sony Ericsson , on the other hand , realize that cellphones are n’t just peter for make calls , they ’re fashion accessary that people carry around with them , and so have been get more risks with their design . They might not always be successful , but by and large we ’ve seen raft more sleek , well - design phones from those fellowship lately than we ’ve experience from Nokia .