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Motorola celebrated 25 years of cellphones by having 31 of its designers from all over the world create a couple of futuristic concepts. We first had the chance to look at a couple of Motorola phone designs from 2033 and now there are 6 more models to check out.
Motorola Tender, a model created by a Seoul designer is really fascinating, since it uses technologies that aren’t yet on the market (levitation and holograms). Just like a pet of the year 2033, Tender floats behind the user, looks like a jellyfish and interprets the gestures and voice commands of its owner, triggering communication features.
Moto Origami, created in North America is a concept that’s made out of a thin and segmented sheet of… “technostuff” and can be folded as the user pleases, turning into a camera, phone, recording device and more. Metamorphose is another phone that changes shape, focuses on social media, while Motorola Yangsheng relies on biometric data and Communidad (also called Pixydust) is a device that uses projected images via nano projectors.
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Motorola’s not the sharpest tool in the shed right now when it comes to phone design, but their past is surely a glorious one, thanks to models like RAZR or PEBL. Their future also looks promising, if you have a look at the concept phones they’ve shown the world, as the company celebrated 25 years of mobile phones.
31 of Moto’s designers created the handsets of the year 2033, beautiful concepts that are sci-fi or innovative and we’ve divided the 12 designs into 2 articles. Today we’ll handle the first six, having a look at their appearance and functions. Three of the Motorola concept phones (Tattoo, Ring and Exo) are wearable objects, while the Liquid Card handset uses a “floating screen” and the MEM phone looks like a shell.
2nd Sight is also an interesting concept, some sort of “visual prosthetic” that covers your sight with avatars and images/information that gets overlayed on the surrounding environment. Augmented reality at its best? You bet! Tune in next time, for the rest of the 12 concepts designed by Moto’s crew around the world.
Loading ...Motorola wants to enter the Android handset market by announcing no less than 2 phones with this OS on board and already renders of such a device surfaced online. Known as Moto Sholes or Shules, the designs of the Android phones were leaked in Russia and are now available below.
Moto Shule’s specs have also been leaked and it turns out that the handset comes with a 3.7 inch touchscreen display, with a 480 x 854 pixels resolution, a GPS, a 5 megapixel camera and a 1400 mAh Li-ion battery.
There’s also a 16GB memory on board, 256MB RAM, a microSD/microSDHC card slot, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR1 and a 3.5mm audio jack. Wi-Fi completes the impressive list and you should expect the device to hit Verizon soon, probably looking as good as the renders below.
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Yes, you should take the info with a huge grain of salt, but it seems that Kelly Bremer’s Motorola Nest Phone concept has become real… or it got cloned by some Chinese manufacturer. The images at the end of the article look pretty real to me, which may be an indication of the fact that Moto might have leaked them after all…
Apparently, the real device lost some elements from the original concept, like the OLED screen, or the Makroblend plastic body. We can see that the handset’s back screen looks like the one on the first design, but we haven’t figured out if we’re dealing with a mirror finish display or reflective plastic.
My gut feeling tells me that this is knockoff or Asian clone of the concept. Does it look real to you?
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Samsung has already launched the Beat DJ phone, allowing its users to mix music, so there’s a pretty decent public segment out there made out of people who want to create and mix music on the go. Such folks would be tempted to use the fresh Motorola KRE8 concept phone, created by designer Jose Tomas DeLuna.
KRE8 is able to split into 2 segments and it packs accelerometers and sensors, that detect the user’s gestures and turn them into commands. The device operates in 3 modes: Instrument Mode (guitar, violin, drums), Mix Mode and Record Mode, each of them based on your gestures.
The resulting output can be recorded as MIDI Signal and shared via 3G connectivity, also allowing other people to jam with you. Motorola KRE8 features a glass touchscreen, music editing apps, tagging audio content via GPS and musical social networking. There’s also a great video below, showing the device in action.
Loading ...Motorola Nest is the latest concept phone we’ve come across, designed by Kelly Bremer and meant to allow the users to stay in touch with their loved ones. The handset uses a virtual scrapbook, in order to make people interact via a social network, the Motorola “nest network”.
For me, this concept phone looks like a “mirror, mirror on the wall”, that seems quite difficult to handle and get a grip of. Of course, it packs a touchscreen, a camera at the back and probably an intuitive interface.
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It took 3 designers to come up with a beauty like this! Motorola Digital Butler is the ideal tool, if you’re a famous socialite, who can’t tell from a day at “work” and a party filled with celebrities. The device is your unique tools for keeping in contact with friends, planning your entire life and ordering everything, from plane tickets to lunch.
The Motorola Digital Butler concept was created by Matthew Spencer, Adam Heslop and Simon Drewery and the device works on 4G networks, packs GPS and features a circular touchscreen interface. There’s also an accelerometer on board and this device is a PDA phone among many others. Believe it or not, the Motorola gizmo even packs a full resolution multimedia LED projector…
Social networking is a default feature of the device, one that connects the user with his/her classy friends, while they getting ready to tear down the clubs in Beverly Hills… Dreamy life, dreamy gadget, right?
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There’s nothing we love more than a fresh batch of pictures portraying 2009’s upcoming devices, specially when their branding is Motorola. We’ve been waiting for the American giant to wake up for a while now and we were pleasantly surprised by the previous four handsets they got ready for Verizon, specially that hot touchscreen Flash phone.
Now it turns out that there are three more Moto phones coming to Verizon in 2009: Motorola Fairbanks, Motorola Harmony and Motorola Niagra (below).
Niagra is basically a RIZR update, borrowing the sharp angles of Moto Flash and sporting a RAZR-like keypad. Motorola Fairbanks features a rugged clamshell design, music keys and Push to Talk, while Harmony is also a clamshell with touch sensitive music keys beneath the external LCD.
We’ve got 7 new and promising Motorola phones till now… and probably a couple more to come. Moto’s Android device and Atila should also find a place on this list.
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Boy Genius Report have just struck gold, by getting info on Moto’s portofolio for 2009, at least the Verizon branded handsets. 4 sexy new devices can be checked out below, the most proeminent of which is surely Motorola Flash, a Windows Mobile touchscreen smartphone, that I would have called Moto’s first Android phone, if it weren’t for the WM thing…
Turns out that Motorola Rush 2 will be available starting Q1 2009, as for the rest, there’s no information on them, except for what we can see for ourselves. Calgary and Rush 2 seem great for texting freaks and web browsing, as for Inferno, this is a classic Moto device, somehow related to Motorola Blaze.
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This surely doesn’t look like something that Moto would pull out of their hats this Christmas, specially with all that Android hype. However, we’ve got to admit that the design is quite intriguing and that its creator, Iulius Lucaci did a terrific job.
Turns out that this rugged Motorola phone also features GPS and probably an electronic compass, considering the markings on the side of the screen.
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Motorola celebrated 25 years of cellphones by having 31 of its designers from all over the world create a couple of futuristic concepts. We first had the chance to look at a couple of Motorola phone designs from 2033 and now there are 6 more models to check out.
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