According to the Nseries Blog, the designers of the Nseries devices are running out of designing ideas and they started making very similar phones recently. He says that N85, N96, N78 and N81 look very similar. I would agree with that, but I don’t agree with the claim that Nokia Nseries designs are similar. Look at the N95 and N95 8GB. Well, they are not that different either, but what would you expect them to make? It’s a phone in the end… It is nearly impossible to make a big design change without adding an extra size to the phone. As it would be with the triple-slider design mentioned recently, it will probably increase the thickness of the phone considerable, due to the extra layer of sliders for the perpendicular sliding.

What do you think, do Nokia designers need to take a break?