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Truth be told, we love the MacBook, as for the iPhone… well it’s a decent phone after all, but is there something in between them? I mean a non-laptop, non-phone device? Shrink the MacBook, give it an iPhone-style design and you’ve got an “iNetbook”. Can you feel the fear, Eee PC?
This mockup, concept or whatever you want to call it started out as a hint, right from the mouth of Steve Jobs, who talked about the netbook market and claimed that Apple has “some pretty interesting ideas if it does evolve”. Should we expect to see a touch tablet, an UMPC or a netbook?
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Fed up with conventional designs? Say “hello” to iBangle, a bracelet iPod that will hold on to your wrist and give you all the audio playback you need, while in motion. Designed by Gopinath Prasana, this gadget may not be a concept phone, but since Apple only has two phones (if you count the 3G iPhone as another handset), we’ll also take this design into account.
The iBangle will become a piece of jewelry pretty soon, I presume, in case it turns into a real gadget and I expect some pretty high prices for this MP3 player. Basically, this concept is a thin piece of aluminium that incorporates a multi-touch trackpad.
In case it’s too lose on your wrist, you can press a button and activate a cushion inside the metallic ring, that’ll keep it perfectly attached to your hand.
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Petitinvention once again introduces a superb concept phone and, as far as I know, the creative genius behind this is an Apple fan, so my lucky guess (based on the device’s look) is that we might be dealing with a so-called Mac Phone. The designer of the device compares it to Nokia Aeon, but I think this is better and more original.
Notice the fancy keyboard (QWERTY and numeric), the brilliant touchscreen and the “Mac white” displayed by the device? Practically, the handset has no borders, so we’re talking full touchscreen, in an original way. If you ask me about the OS of this concept, I might say Android, but I don’t think that Google’s software is worthy enough to be emulated on this beauty…
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Well, Apple’s got a MacBook-related announcement on October 14th (Tuesday), while NVIDIA will probably showcase new graphical chipsets for the same notebooks on Wednesday, but Monday is also a day you’d want to remember. Turns out it’ll be the day when the iPhone meets your portable PC and it’s there to stay… embedded in the device.
Or so claims OLO, a company that plans to launch a netbook that can incorporate your iPhone beneath its keyboard, right in the spot where you’d usually find a touchpad. OLO announced that it’ll launch this device on Monday, October 13th, but for now their netbook looks like a bad Photoshop… What do you make of it?
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Picture the iPhone with a generous QWERTY keyboard and a new Mac OS M mobile platform plus a superb and user-friendly interface. The result is the iSsistant concept PDA phone, that allows you to listen to music, watch movies, talk on the phone, do some web browsing, all of these while using OS X apps.
The list of specs of this concept PDA phone includes a 1024 x 600 wide SVGA LCD touchscreen, WiFi 802.11g, Bluetooth, a 5 megapixel camera, 100GB of storage and an iPod music player. Underneath that white shell, we discover an Intel Core Solo processor U1300 (1.20 GHz), 1GB RAM and the above mentioned HDD (4200 rpm).
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The T-Systems site from Germany managed to leak a new MacBook Pro laptop ahead of time, or we’re dealing with a pretty big error, when it comes to showing new product pictures. This seemingly new MacBook Pro comes with an iPhone-style edge surrounding the screen and a thinner body, if that’s even possible.
Strangely enough, the specs stay the same, an extra reason to consider just another fake/mistake…
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This is the next logical step of evolution, the touchscreen-isation of every device (I invented a verb folks). As a proof of the trend of implementing touch-based displays on new devices, we have the MacBook Touch concept, designed by Petitinvention.
Imagine a lighter MacBook Air, with a virtual keyboard instead of the physical one… The use of two touchscreens makes the need of a mouse futile, now that we can use our fingers to navigate, click, zoom and select. Another plus is the fact that the virtual keys will always be lit, so you’ll be able to work even when the sun sets.
The nostalgic users will miss the sound and feel of pressing a button on their keyboard, but that can be easily solved with the aid of haptic technology and vibration feedback.
Next step? An even lighter and slimmer MacBook, with a single touchscreen and a small laser projector that displays a virtual keyboard on a flat surface.
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Before starting the hunt for a new iPhone concept, we stop and check out a neat customization of the famous device. This modding allows the Apple symbol to glow and it was done in Russia, but hopefully it will hit the rest of the world soon.
Now we can only wait for a director’s cut of Lord of the Rings, where Frodo uses this light to find his way to Mordor (video of the mod in action below):
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There’s no point in checking out iPhone 3G concepts any more, so we’d go out and assume that all the futuristic designs we see from now will be iPhone 3.0 wannabes. The device below might as well be the iPhone 3.0, that comes with a neat transparent body, 3G support, fully functional Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and 64GB internal memory.
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The iPhone finally got rid of those “playful” curved edges, opting for a more serious look, at least in designer Isamu Sanada’s concept. It seems to be a thicker device now, but it may be an optical illusion. Also, this option of getting rid of the curved edges, seems to leave a lot of unused room at the iPhone 2.0′s top and bottom side.
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Truth be told, we love the MacBook, as for the iPhone… well it’s a decent phone after all, but is there something in between them? I mean a non-laptop, non-phone device? Shrink the MacBook, give it an iPhone-style design and you’ve got an “iNetbook”. Can you feel the fear, Eee PC?
(6 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5)
