Nokia Bagged Red Dot Design Awards

This year, Nokia once again sets the bar in product design by winning the prestigious Red Dot Design Award for different products.

The Red Dot Design Award is an international product design prize awarded since 1955 by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany. Red Dot is one of the world's largest design competitions standing for aesthetic forms, well thought-out innovations and groundbreaking trends. Prize categories include product design, design agencies, and design concepts. This year's competition received 4,662 entries in 19 different categories.

Below is a list of Nokia products that won against this year’s entries:

Nokia Lumia 820 and Nokia Lumia 620

The Nokia Lumia 820 is a high-end smartphone powered by Windows Phone 8. It sports a 4.3 inches diagonal OLED display, a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor, and an 8-megapixel camera. The phone comes with LTE connectivity that provides the fastest data connections and a wireless-charging option. The Red Dot Design Award jury judged it a winner because the design of the Lumia 820 combines principles that include commitment to purity and attention to detail.

Designed to fit beautifully in the palm of your hand, the Nokia Lumia 620 was praised by the design awards jury for taking the pure color story and giving it a burst of playfulness. Also one of the pioneers running Windows Phone 8, the smartphone uses a 1 GHz dual core processor and aims to provide more value for its price.

JBL PlayUp Portable Speaker for Nokia and JBL PowerUp Wireless Charging Speaker for Nokia

The JBL PlayUp builds on the design of the award-winning Nokia Play 360 Wireless Speaker, making a statement with its vivid colors and bold shape. Adding to the convenience of wireless charging, the JBL PowerUp is a retro-styled wireless charging docking station that features high quality audio using NFC technology. By simply placing a compatible Bluetooth enabled phone, charging and playing music can be done by simply placing it on top of the speaker.

Nokia Wireless Charging Plate DT-900 and Nokia Wireless Charging Stand DT-910
Wireless charging is taking its place as a new and innovative technology. Taking advantage of NFC technology, the Nokia Wireless Charging Plate and Nokia Wireless Charging Stand can charge capable smartphones by simply placing it on top of the charger.

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Nokia Bagged Seven Awards For Outstanding Design Achievement In 2012

People are always after the latest and greatest technology that powers smartphones. Each year, millions of purchases are made to upgrade to the latest smartphones. However, technology is just a part of the reason that fuels the mobile crowd to upgrade their gadgets. Design is also and important factor. It’s not just the design of looking good but design being functional for everyday use.

Who gets to judge the greatest designs in the world? One of the prestigious awarding bodies is the International Forum (iF) Design based in Hannover, Germany. For the last 60 years, they have assembled an authoritative body composed of experts to judge a slew of products to recognize design excellence and award merit fordesign functionality.

Here is a list of what iF Design judged to be creative and bold and wowed the jury:

Lumia 800 and Lumia 920

Despite its launch two years ago, the Nokia Lumia 800 still resonates a visually stunning look to this day with its sleek form and curved 3.7” AMOLED screen. The phone runs on the still relevant Windows Phone 7.5 OS and is powered by a 1.4 Ghz processor. The classy design is not just a visual delight; it also provides comfort when using the phone due to its thin form factor and solid engineering.
 

An improvement over its predecessor, the Nokia Lumia 920 continues to dazzle consumers and the iF alike. The use of vibrant colors and a slight curved back plate is both easy on the eyes and in the users hands. The comfort in design is both functional and attractive. It gives each phone a personality with the best innovative technology that measures up to how it is perceived. The Lumia 920 has a slightly bigger screen at 4.5” and runs on a 1.5 Ghz processor that backs the design with the latest and greatest on mobile technology.

Wireless Charging Plate

If science fiction authors, H.G. Wells and Jules Verne were alive today they would certainly be amazed by how far technology has progressed. These days, it is certainly obvious if a device is left alone near a wall socket – it requires charging among a mess of cables. With the advent of wireless charging, Nokia has paired color, function and design with these wireless charging plates. Mobile users do not have to worry about where to place their mobile phones for charging. Nowadays, one can just simply place the device on the wireless charging plate and your phone starts charging.

Bluetooth Headsets

For the better part of the last decade, wireless is no longer a buzzword. Connections made sans the wire makes mobile lifestyles easier and untangled. The iF awarded Nokia’s Bluetooth Headset BH-118 for its colorful and subtle design. Listening to music or having a conversation without worrying about the cables that may strangle you are no longer a concern. Absolute clarity is essential when listening and talking on your mobile device with crystal clear signal without interruption. The BH-118 makes it seem effortless with color and design that match your phone.

JBL PlayUp and JBL PowerUp

Portability and convenience is one of the core design goals of a mobile device. JBL recognizes what Nokia brings to the world of design and its no wonder this great accessory bagged another award from the iF Design awarding body. Form and functionality is very important for both companies so they have come up with two stylish products that seamlessly integrate with their surroundings. The JBL PlayUp is a portable speaker that has several colors to match the color of your phone. Additionally, the design echoes the best sound quality that JBL is known for and includes wireless transmission of music from phones to speakers. Great tonality, a solid bass and balanced treble makes Nokia phones a great music device you can easily bring around.

JBL PowerUp for Nokia is another result when great minds think alike. Besides piping music from a mobile phone, it also features a tap-play option when you place your phone on the speaker surface. Taking its cue from JBL PlayUp, it also features wireless charging while playing music. Simply placing the phone on the top surface charges the phone and the ability to play music continuously without cables is a very innovative idea that merges design and function in one product.

These seven innovative products from Nokia certainly made an impact on the International Forum Design 2012 jury.

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Nokia Takes The Innovative Stride With Outstanding Wireless Charging Accessories

Among the best part of Nokia's September 5 Windows Phone 8 launching event in New York, the march of the next generation of powering smartphones via Nokia Wireless Charging accessories. A powerless device can't do you any good no matter how advance or expensive it is. Power is the only life of a smartphone.

On the front line of course is one my personal favorite, the JBL PowerUp Wireless Charging Speaker which combines the best audio quality in the music and entertainment business and the most convenient way of powering up. Listening to music could never be as beneficial as ever before.

The Fatboy Recharge Pillow provides the most stylish and easiest way to recharge, all you need to do is lay the phone down on the pillow and its good to go. No need to plug the phone in a USB or adapter, let it sleep on the pillow and gobble the energy it needs for a hectic day. A perfect companion when your watching TV in a couch or something like it.

Nokia Wireless Charging Stand DT-910 also debuts with the same recharge mechanism, but unlike the Fatboy Pillow, the charger comes in a more steady and fixed approached. Kinda like the one which stays in the office table where you can put the phone in while working and be notified right away when a call or SMS comes in.

Last but not the least of course is the Nokia Wireless Charging Plate DT-900 with a more sublimed approached. This is the type of wireless charger where you can put on the bedside table for an overnight charge.

Nokia uses the Qi that creates interoperability between the device providing power and the device receiving power with a magnetic induction to recharge simply by being near a single power transmitter of the Wireless Power Consortium.

Well, it seems like Nokia made it sure that everything is covered up with the range of wireless charging accessories they created. A promising new technology that delivers a greater comfort for everyone.

Prices and availability of the accessories have not been announced and it will come in different color variants.

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