{"id":152,"date":"2012-03-01T03:30:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T08:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/?p=152"},"modified":"2012-03-02T00:27:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T05:27:21","slug":"phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/archives\/152","title":{"rendered":"The Nokia Phone that Never Was (2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-158 noshadow\" style=\"margin-left: -65px;\" title=\"Nokia E81 Vertical Slider\" src=\"http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/e81-slide1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"637\" \/><br \/>\nThis is a bit of a blast from the past, I originally created many elements of this post back in 2010 and early 2011, so bear with me &#8211; I&#8217;ve been busy.<\/p>\n<p>Before Nokia&#8217;s partnership with Microsoft and their foray into Windows Mobile phones, there was uncertainty in the public that Nokia could follow-up their previous successes in the smartphone business with the onslaught from both the touch-friendly Apple iPhone and even BlackBerry&#8217;s constant deluge of hardware with minor tweaks. This was also around the same time that Palm (later acquired by HP) hit the ground running with the Pre2.<\/p>\n<p>Nokia&#8217;s answer at the time was the N8, and later the E7 for the business crowd [and then the E63&#8230; E72&#8230; E73 Mode&#8230; E71X&#8230; and even later still the E6 (which I&#8217;ve yet to post a proper review of), All skeletons of the amazing <a title=\"clearly - the superior 'Do Everything' phone\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nokia_E71\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ext-link\" rel=\"external\">E71<\/a> &#8211; WHICH I STILL USE AND LOVE!]. Neither were truly satisfactory answers, although they both had the unmistakable solid-built Nokia look and feel. It was around this time that I thought it would be a good idea to &#8216;flesh out&#8217; my dream phone &#8211; at least via the computer. The result was a hybrid of the Nokia N8 with the physical buttons and a vertical slideout QWERTY backlit keyboard from the Nokia E71, running WebOS. At the time I still had plenty of hope for WebOS as it seemed to be a very easy platform for developers to get pump out quality apps for. Combined with Nokia&#8217;s expertise developing the multi-tasking Symbian OS it seemed like a lot of good features from both OSes could be &#8216;married&#8217; in such a partnership.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/e81.jpg\" class=\"local-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-157\" title=\"E81 Full Sized Ad\" src=\"http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/e81-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/e81-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/e81-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/e81-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/e81.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> Alas, it wasn&#8217;t meant to be. I had fun making the mockups in Fireworks &#8211; to the right is the high-resolution &#8220;Ad&#8221; for my make-believe E81, for others who are dreamers, or perhaps for someone out there that is listening and will grant my weird wish for a proper vertical QWERTY slider.<\/p>\n<p>And no &#8211; the BlackBerry Torch and non-existent Palm\/HP Pre3 aren&#8217;t &#8220;proper&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a bit of a blast from the past, I originally created many elements of this post back in 2010 and early 2011, so bear with me &#8211; I&#8217;ve been busy. Before Nokia&#8217;s partnership with Microsoft and their foray into Windows Mobile phones, there was uncertainty in the public that Nokia could follow-up their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,5,15,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experience","category-graphic","category-modifications","category-rant","category-ui"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}