Nokia is cooperating with Microsoft to bring new kind of OS to its high-end smartphones. And when Elop announced they wouldn’t use Windows Phone 7, it was quite serious. Now we can see the early results of their cooperation, as Nokia introduces a new imaginary/concept handset called the Nokia W6, which is just a shell to house the modified Windows Phone theme.
The themes were designed by Peter Lackman who emailed MyNokiaBlog saying:
Hello folks at My Nokia Blog,
As you already know, Nokia has stated regarding the WP7 partnership that they have been granted practically unlimited access to customize WP7 UI. They have also said that even though this is the case, they do not plan to do any drastic changes.
I’ve been thinking about this, and a few days back I decided to check with photoshop how would Nokia WP7 look if they should introduce a few minor things of their own to the UI, including the theme system from Symbian.
I made two sample themes “Blue leather” and “Summer” for an imaginary phone “W6” using WP7 and I think that the images came out all right, illustrating quite clearly a few possibilities that Nokia might choose to pursue.
Why am I writing about this to you? I think that this might be something that the Nokia community might be interested to see, if for nothing else, then just for showing some of the options that Nokia have with their upcoming implementation of WP7. And for fun, of course.
As you can see from the pictures, the themes are very minimalistic – plain black (or white) background with colored tiles. Peter introduced two themes – “Blue Leather” and “Summer”.
So as there are not any Windows Phone-powered smartphone in the market, let’s see how the themes would be looked at Nokia N8 if it is not a Symbian^3 handset.
