Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform did manage to bring a change to the manner in which users look
at mobile phones, making that step away from the crowd, but the OS might still have a lot to evolve
before becoming a leader on the market.
One of the main features of the platform is its consistency across devices coming from different
handset vendors, yet one designer believes that a series of issues can be found here as well.
According to Alexandros Stasinopoulos , there are only few Windows
Phones that indeed manage to blend the platform into the hardware,
and that this is the aspect that handset vendors should take into consideration when designing new smartphones.
He also proposes a new approach to Windows Phone, called Kanavos and aimed specifically at bringing
the handset and the software running on it together.
“Kanavos suggests a bold industrial design through a number of vertical and horizontal contrast color
stripes that is visually completed through the recent minimal but strong windows mobile user interface
design,” Stasinopoulos explains.
“What is shown on the main menu screen does not disrupt any more the design of the device but, instead, the black stripes
of the Windows OS meet the ones of the hardware and thus the OS becomes, in a sense, a bridge between the two sides of
the device.”
The concept design proposes the relocation of the “Windows” button from the center of the lower part
of the phone to its left and right sides, a move that would facilitate the access to its functions.
Having so many stripes on a mobile phone might not be a feature that all users would like, but the
concept certainly seems highly interesting, especially when considering its proposed consistency across
hardware and software.
Many people have already started to show increased interest in Nokia’s new Windows Phone 8 smartphones, which makes us
wonder whether a device resembling Kanavos will prove successful or not. Let us know what you think of it by dropping a
comment below.
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