Lately Nokia has started manufacturing clamshells having considered it would increase its sales. It seems to be true in some kind but there is a great competition from the side of Korean manufacturers, Sony Ericsson and Motorola in this segment of the market. Also other manufacturers started offering their devices of the same form-factor at the same time and the market got extremely competitive. The only way out for Nokia was to offer unordinary models, devices with a raisin, different to everything already represented in the market. Let's remember the example of Nokia 7200 that was the first to have panels with textile surface. They were appropriate and unique in the fashion phone..



Link: Mobile Review