Nokia say they have been working on renaming their mobile phones since 2008, but we only started hearing about the move during the middle of last year, when the C and X series phones came to our attention. Nokia World saw the launch of the Xseries phones in the form of the X3 and X6 and today has seen the new C5 unveiled.
With the X and C now added to the existing, well-known, Eseries and Nseries phones, Nokia have decided to clarify how their new naming system works.
The Nseries phones remain their top-of-the-range techno powerhouses, followed by the Xseries as high-tech entertainment phones. Then comes the Eseries business handsets with the new Cseries phones covering what Nokia call their ‘core range’, in other words, the simple and affordable ones.
So, this fits in with the leak we saw just before MWC, but with the absence of the mysterious Sseries. In addition to the letter-based changes, Nokia phones in the C and X series will be given a single number from 1 to 9 in order to create their name. The number will denote where they fit into the range, with 1 being an entry level phone and 9 being the flagship in that series. At this point, Nokia haven’t commented whether this style will be continued over into the N and E series, but we suspect it will, especially if phones like the rumoured N8 turn out to be correctly named.
While we like the simplification of Nokia’s phone names, we’re not sure how future models will be referred too – for example, how will they differentiate between this year’s C5 and next year’s C5 replacement? Will it be a C5i? A C5b? Or will they do a C15 and announce another change to their naming structure?
Whatever they do, at least for now it has made things clearer!
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