http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/ Engadget Mobile Comments for Irony: Nokia N97's designer is Japanese http://www.engadgetmobile.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgetmobile.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/Dec 2nd 2008 7:19PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/
...why is this a surprise that a Japanese employee works for a euro corp??? fill me in.

...irony would be all the American Honda and Toyota employees. ]]>Dec 2nd 2008 8:18PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/Dec 2nd 2008 11:51PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/Dec 3rd 2008 4:28AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/Dec 2nd 2008 8:20PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/Dec 2nd 2008 10:31PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/Dec 3rd 2008 12:18AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/Dec 3rd 2008 12:19AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/Dec 3rd 2008 2:58AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/
Engadget isn't making a point about the team being multinational, they're making a point about the irony of the designed being Japanese when Nokia officially just stopped producing phones for the Japanese market.

READ!]]>Dec 3rd 2008 3:19AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/Still the same comment: tabloid story.
Maybe it is ironic for some people, maybe not. Business as usual.]]>Dec 3rd 2008 4:07AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/
I work for Mercedes Benz and I live in the US, I guess all these cars we are selling to American's is an "Irony". ]]>Dec 3rd 2008 7:21AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/1. If you employ a Japanese designer, you should succeed in the Japanese market
2. If you fail in the Japanese market, and then steal Japanese talent, then you have extracted your pound of flesh (or sushi ?)
3. If you fail in the Japanese mainstream market (but not the truly high-end ...vertu still hangs in) and employ a Japanese designer to design a "beast of a phone", then this blog advises you to consider renaming this beast to vertu in Japan. Maybe pigs will fly ..oops, no disrespect meant to pigs or flies.

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Eguchi has absolutely nothing to do with Nokia's failure in Japan, he has also done nothing to prevent that.]]>Dec 3rd 2008 8:35AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/
First of all, this was truly intended as a lighthearded bit of irony -- the fact that a beautiful, powerful phone fully capable of succeeding in the Japanese market is being designed by a Japanese dude just days after Nokia pulls out of Japan. Am I the only one seeing it?

Secondly, this is not bashing Nokia in the least -- hell, I praise the N97 right in the post.

Third, settle down.]]>Dec 3rd 2008 10:06AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/Dec 3rd 2008 11:40AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/
for example, in english you have "are you coming to the movie?" or "coming to the movie?" -that's 20 keystrokes minimum. in japanese you have "映画来る?" -only 10 keystrokes. the point is that, relative to romanized scripts, kanji conveys a lot more meaning in short bursts.

phones with full-qwerty keyboards, virtual or physical, don't sell very well in japan.

and also what that other dude said earlier about all the other super-high-tekk features included by domestic manufacturers...

can you dig where i am coming from?]]>Dec 3rd 2008 9:15PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/12/02/irony-nokia-n97s-designer-is-japanese/And the Sharp 922SH...?]]>Dec 9th 2008 12:46AM