Nokia's 7900 Crystal Prism could be worse
By Thomas Ricker 
posted January 23rd 2008 4:35AM
posted January 23rd 2008 4:35AM
posted January 23rd 2008 4:35AM
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Every semi-detached Finnish goth girl is going to get crazy about it. And also Tim Burton.
This definately has a market. If nothing else, at least because so many people find it ugly.
Aaaaaaaargh....... it's spelt 'definitely'....... what's with the usage of this word that leads people to do this all the t-a-me!?
Engad!
Awful
hm.. not for me... this is why I prefer Sony Ericsson, they look more "adult"/"business" like... too many cellphones look like they are designed for kids, with blinking lights and funky covers...
just not something for me
is it a Apple products?.
No?... then .
:3
I think people here dont know the difference about Nokia's series(most probally not many Nokia fans in his US based blog;)).
7xxx like above there posted is the wierd one.
Nokia 7280 http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_7280-884.php released 2003
Nokia 7373 http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_7373-1690.php 2006
Nokia 7600 http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_7600-538.php This one was "wierd"(bad)
And so on.
If you are looking mature phones 7xxx for sure isnt it. Might be better with 6xxx(example 6500 classic and slider) or 8xxx series from Nokia and why not N and E series.
This phone is done mainly for Asian markets and have been hit there(have seen just couple of 7900 in Italy)
Looks like something that came off the Allspark ;)
WTF!? anyone else see this?
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/01/primal_instinct.jpg
I was just about to say the same thing.
I just noticed that myself. It grabbed my attention more than the phone itself. WTF is that thing!?!?
...that's Frédérique Daubal's "Dress for Tired People"
according to the article.
yeah, this engadget post is even less intelligible than normal.
@Bobs, is that a picture ron jeremy in a mario costume?
I see it, and I am offended.
@sjdurfey
Why yes it is.
Looks like the designer liked tringles....A LOT
I actually think it looks pretty good. I really like the simplicity in the shape coupled with the triangular keys. If it was blue I'd be sold.
the one on the top left seems to really like the phone
It could have been even worse. She could have conceived a cellphone made with other cellphone leftovers.
http://www.daubal.com/collection05/index.html
Ah, so now I know where inpiration of that horrible standard theme for the N95 came from!
Nokia must have a drugged up design department and every now and then, these sorts of horrors creep out.
"...just not the 9.4 million pages of Wikipedia."
Dork much?
Amazing burn.
It could be worse, but not much!
Primal Instinct looks like a nightmare; even for Bjork. No offense Bjork; I love ya'. "We are the earth intruders..."
By a matter of pure coincidence, I was listening to Bjork when I happened upon this article. PERFECT!
what's geeks' favorite shape? Apple?
what?
Oh look, badass cutting edge design...from 1997.
I say people are gravitating toward smartphones. I think regular handsets are going to get less and less popular from this point forward. May take a while though.
I think it'll do ok. Girls love that crap.
my mother got one of those for christmas, except the back of it is gold.
hmm.
Does your family not like her?
This should definitely not be used when driving a car...
I know! You'll get the other drivers attention and make THEM crash!
or ever...
whoa!
I disagree. IMO, the phone looks great. I wouldn't get it in purple, but a metallic blue wouldn't be out of the question.
lol, like engadget readers are the target audience for this phone, people will love it
Russians will suck these in endless quantities. I mean, look at this if you already haven't: http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/22/and-you-thought-the-cayenne-looked-fugly-i-stock-i/
how could this possibly get worse? Purple?
I like it. Not for being pretty, but for being original. However, I don't think this model would have any success in the U.S., but I'm pretty sure it will rock in Europe and specially in Asia. People there is not that "conventional"
It's will be a hit in China where 7500 selling like no day. I think it looks kinda cool(not the purple coloured thought) and 7900 got really good build quality.... but i dont think i could buy it. 7xxx series have always been the whacky one.
wow.. if there were stylish cell phones in the 80s.. this is what Prince and Vanity would be sporting.
It looks unique. No mistaking it for some other popular handset.
Is it just me or does it look like they're mimicking the opening sequence of "Metropolis" with this phone?
I've been using this puppy for about 2 months now - it was supposed to replace my really slow n73me. I do admire the infernal blue LED light on top panel, the phone's ability to change the color of its keypad and display backlight, but! - The display is extremely small and the flavour of Symbian installed is crippled if compared even to my old n73me.
I've been using around 12 different Nokia mobile phone models for over 15 years. And I always was thinking I'd stick to Nokia forever. But I was wrong. Their phones get slow and buggy after using them for about 6 months, their latest Symbian versions are giving me compatibility issues (older programs like FlashSMS do not work). After having used iPhone for a month now, I must say there is no phone like [jailbroken] iPhone!
That pretty much proves you havent had that phone. N73 is old S60 phone and it's slow. 7900 is using S40 (basic phone) and they are fast.
I kinda like it :/
I think it's pretty!
I like it - I think a lot of you have no sense of modern fashion or couture which is what is obviously what the style of the look of this phone is about!
i like it, do you ACTUALLY hate it that much???
lol it's JUST A PHONE, calm down.