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One of our most important tipsters has a fresh scoop for us: turns out that Apple is planning to buy the “swiftmobile” domain from its current owner. This could mean that the future product made by the Cupertino giant could be called the iSwift. Is there any chance that this is the iPhone 4G? What do you think?
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There was a pretty cool Nokia N900 ad that saw a person transforming into a handset and we showed you a Transformers Motorola phone a while back. However, this time, we’ve got an iPhone 4G prototype, created by Manuel Eder and once again keen on the whole transformation process.
Of course, you can forget about this being real, since the keyboard is way too sci-fi, the battery seems to lack totally and the “guts” of the next-gen iPhone would be totally moved around during the morphing process. It’s still a pretty cool idea and concept, specially with the way that the display sets up, but are we ever going to see this turned into a real device?
Video demo of the transforming iPhone right here:
[via GSMDome]
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Sonny Lim, a designer from Singapore has created a pretty interesting Sony Ericsson concept phone, dubbed the 3G, that’s based on a simplistic method of communication. Sony Ericsson 3G uses its large touchscreen display, allowing the users to draw symbols and write text and numbers with the thumb on a nine-dot matrix.
It’s like children’s finger-painting and the basic idea behind the handset is user-friendliness and the resemblance to natural writing. Also, it turns out that drawing a character is faster and easier to do than searching for a letter on a tiny keyboard. This visual input method is very useful, specially for people who don’t use English language.
We’ve also got to admit that the phone looks pretty hot and sci-fi, specially with that greenish color.
[Behance via The Design Blog]
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How about taking fun on the road? Designer Antoine Brieux created a concept gaming device that’s able to integrate a smartphone and provide some extra functionality for productivity freaks. The device is known as the WOOGA and it gets pictured in the following images.
The portable console WOOGA includes a special space that hosts your phone thanks to a bunch of keeping parts. The handset will communicate wit h this device, perhaps via Bluetooth, but what we know for sure is that this console wannabe can be used in a game configuration, as seen in the images below.
There’s also a more smartphone-like configuration, that makes the device look more like a netbook than a console. WOOGA incorporates stereo speakers, an automatic lock system, a large keyboard and a Li-Ion battery on the netbook side. On the exterior gaming side, you’ll find configurable game buttons, a directional pad, a rubber handgrip and a 3.5mm audio jack.
[Thanks Antoine]
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This has got to be the strangest name I’ve heard in a while, QderoPateo Ouidoo, but the project behind it is certainly promising. We’re dealing with an US/Chinese initiative based on augmented reality and a very cool platform, that even uses its custom chipset. However, this time, the augmented reality is taken to a new level, the “Articulated Naturality”.
The company behind the project has several million in funding, a manufacturing partner and even the support of China Mobile and an US carrier we don’t yet know. Instead of using the classic AR system, QderoPateo will support full image recognition, thanks to its revolutionary specs: two dual core parallel processors, 2GB RAM and an 8GB chipset.
These will be used for 3D rendering and interactive images, coupled with gyrometers, accelerometers and GPS for an incredible experience and ten times the accuracy of a GPS system. Expect Ouidoo to stun everyone at the Shanghai 2010 World Expo this spring and meanwhile, QderoPateo will launch an iPhone app, WorldLenns.
It’ll show a bit of the upcoming software plans of this promising brand, that we’ll keep an eye on, in the future.
[via slashgear]
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If you’re the kind of person who waits for the Chrome OS as some sort of new wave of technology, we’ve got goodies for you: Google has just introduced a tablet or two, but these are only mockups. They’re meant to show the potential of the Chrome OS, mainly its cool interface.
Coincidence with the announcement of the Apple iPad? Certainly not, so it seems that Google doesn’t want to be left behind in this duel. The images were made available by Glen Murphy, Google’s Chrome UI lead designer and the interface will apparently be available on tablets with displays ranging from 5 to 10 inches in diagonal.
The Google Tablet seems bigger than the iPad, but certainly not huge like a portable Microsoft Surface, or something. Advantages? Multitasking, for starters… and probably better specs, plus a cheaper price. Don’t forget to have a look at the video below, showing the Google tablet in action.
[via Tablet News]
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There were a few Nokia fans who regretted the canning of the N-Gage gaming phone series, but there is still hope for this idea, specially if you believe in concepts. The folks of Recombu created the Nokia Ovi Orion, a gaming phone design, pictured below.
Nokia Ovi Orion looks like a combo between a Palm Pre and an iPhone, with a strange QWERTY keyboard and a hidden one line display at the back. This bizarre design might make gaming more user-friendly, but what’s really important is the front multitouch capacitive touchscreen, with a huge diagonal, hopefully.
We wouldn’t be surprised if a Tegra or Snapdragon CPU was on board too, as well as HDMI out and a decent bunch of speakers. The question is: does Nokia have the software platform for such a device? Here’s a short video demo of the concept gaming phone:
[via Slashgear]
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The folks of iphon.fr have recently created an iPhone concept following the design lines of the freshly launched Apple iPad. The result was a white handset, with an aluminum case and a plastic area at the top, meant to allow a better transmission of the network signal.
Also, one might notice the square-ish then curved design of the supposed iPhone 4G, but we have no clue right now to show that this device will ever be real. Let’s just hope that the camera at the back is at least a 5 megapixel unit and it also comes with flash, although this seems very unlikely, for now.
As for the Apple iPad elements borrowed, we invite you to find them and leave a comment below.
[via iphon.fr]
(14 votes, average: 4.71 out of 5)
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Designer Josselin Zaïgouche, who created the Zero Phone we’ve shown you half an year ago has now sent us an incredible design, the Apple Black Hole concept, possibly the iPhone of the year 2020. “What’s going to happen in 10 years” asks the designer and the answer should look something like this (click on images to enlarge):
As you can see, the Apple Black Hole comprises 4 components: the charging base, the Prism, the Black Hole and the giftbox. Things get interesting when you try to use the handset… its central ball will levitate when you open your hand and all functions will be controlled in mid-air, with the aid of holographic technology. How cool is that?
The Black Hole concept phone can be connected to the charging base and used as a desktop device, still projecting the needed interface. Brilliant? Yes! Viable? Maybe…
[Thanks Josselin for sending this in]
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Each time we spot a concept cellphone that addresses the needs of hearing or sight impaired people, we’re really impressed by the fact that not everyone is focused on high-end features, but also the disabilities of those less fortunate than us. Pratt student Suhyun Kim created the Visual Sound mobile phone, destined to reach the hands of hearing impaired uses.
The device is able to convert voice input to text and text input to voice. Visual Sound comes with two pillars that you’ll grab hold of and they’ll scroll sideways, revealing a roll-out display. We wonder if the screen is flexible and judging from the photo it seems to be, so this is a pretty innovative gadget.
Using this concept cellphone is fairly basic: you input text via the touchscreen display and it gets converted to voice, reaching the person at the other end of the line. Simply great!
[via Yanko Design]
