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Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Nokia Classic 6500 Mates Aluminum, Stainless

Metal or plastic? That’s not the new question at the check out line; it’s the raging question in mobile phone design. While Japanese OEM’s are making breakthroughs in eco-plastics for new cell phones. Western OEMs are making style statements with metal designs.The latest is the Nokia Classic 6500. A Danish design team labored 18 months to develop the slimmest possible phone with the greatest possible visual cache. The design team liked an aluminum tube for the outer casing even though metal blocks signals. The compromise was half metal, half plastic, with the antenna moved to the lower (plastic) portion. Each Classic's anodized aluminum surface is polished individually so "no two phones are exactly alike. The 6500 slide is made with stainless steel that has a "unique hard coating to prevent scuffs, scratches and even fingerprints." Don’t get me wrong. I love the look. But I think I might make my style statements somewhere else.

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