Concept Phone Designs and News
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After checking out the BlackBerry Bold and wishful thinking about the Thunder 9500, it’s BlackBerry Kickstart’s turn to surface, in black. It’s RIM’s first attempt at designing a clamshell, but a terrible idea of incorporating a QWERTY keypad if you ask me.
It seems like a real handset, for now, but sometimes we wish certain handsets were rumours…
[via The Boy Genius Report]
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The folks of Allaboutsymbian imagined the future of the Nokia N-series and designed a fresh N100 unit. It solves all of the issues of the previous handsets, like the dim screen of the N82, or the unprotected camera glass of the Nokia N95 8GB. The N100 comes with a 2.8 inch display, the same as the E61 and N95 8GB.
Also, the concept features an N82-style protected 5 megapixel rear camera that also records VGA video. Troubled by the sunny weather when using your smartphone? Forget about that, because the N100 features a transflective screen plus GPS, WiFi and a BP-4L 1500 mAh battery.
It measures 120 x 51 x 12 mm and weighs 104 grams, plus it comes with a numeric keypad with discrete, large numbers, application shortcut keys plus microUSB jack, a 3.5 mm stereo audio/TV out jack. There’s no info on the RAM, processor or the internal memory of the device, but I bet that it packs some steam, even in that segment.
[via Allaboutsymbian]
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The Plantronics Versa concept design belongs to One & Co and basically it’s the future of wireless headsets. This concept wireless headset uses Bluetooth technology to connect to the mobile phone and comes in all shapes and sizes in order to suit the tastes of men, women or youths.
Plantronics Versa becomes a long metallic gizmo when it’s designed for men, but for women it’s a chrome necklace, so beautiful that it can be worn as a piece of jewellery. Teens will use a necklace plus clip (made of anodized aluminium) that is cool enough to make them trendsetters.
We’ll be seeing the Plantronics Versa on the market sometime in the following 2 years, so it seems that the concept is quite appealing to manufacturers.
[via Tuvie]
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We’ve just found out that there’s going to be another OLPC generation, the XO-2, getting launched in 2010, at a $75 price tag. But that’s no reason to stop us from imagining an even smaller, lighter and more portable device, with a tendency of becoming a smartphone, rather than a mini-notebook.
Great concept shown above, although it’s clear that we’re dealing with 2 joint iPhone devices. OLPC XO-2 Nano? Could be, but that will turn into a rather thick device. The Apple folks might be drawing some conclusions from such simple mockups.
[found on Flickr]
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Not much info on this one, since I’ve just found it on Flickr and it’s a fresh upload, but what I see here is a neat new type of clamshell. I can imagine this as a future Motorola, but the device is rather thick, compared to their thin RAZR phones.
Hopefully this new way of connecting two phone parts through a watch band-like hinge may solve the problem of circuits breaking down in that area.
[found on Flickr]
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Gamers? iPhone fans? Thought so… Seemingly there’s not “one ring to rule them all”, but there’s a pretty neat device that will turn your iPhone into a PSP, at least when it comes to gaming controls and experience plus design.
The iControlPad is only a prototype for now, but I’m guessing it’ll hit the market till Christmas. Keep in mind that it also works with the iPod Touch, in case you’ve chosen the iPhone’s “phoneless” twin. More details HERE.
[via Intomobile]
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There are few concept phones that remain in the memory of tech geeks and Nokia Aeon is one of them. It may be the touchscreen or the sci-fi look, but it’s there in our heads and waiting to be released. The latest piece of news is that it already exists, at least in the Nokia labs, so we’ve got an Aeon coming soon folks.
The only proof of the statement above is a picture, more or less fake that shows a handset with touchscreen displays and a removable bottom part. This part could be the Nokia interactive touch keypad we’re eager to see in action.
Before we get the official word from Nokia, let’s remember what Aeon was like when we first saw it:
[via Unwired View]
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Seems that Sony Ericsson was part of quite a show at the JavaOne conferences, since they’ve “leaked” one or two prototype phones in their video presentation. Also, Rikko Sakaguchi from SE mentions that the company will launch the device from the video in 2008. Curios? Check it out below:
Fanatics of the Sony Ericsson brand have already started assuming that we’re dealing with the PSP Phone or the rumoured Shiho handset. Other than that it’s nice to see SE getting ready to go to war against the iPhone and maybe preparing a follow-up to the XPERIA X1 through one of these prototypes.
[via Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog]
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Too many “kiddie” phones on our hands lately, so it’s high time we started thinking about grandma and grandpa and their handsets. Enter EMC phone, the “Easy Mobile Calling” concept you can check out below.
It’s a device designed by Matthias Pinkert and it features 4 keys for direct calling and it also comes with one-touch calling and GPS tracking. Add a speaker phone to that and we’ve got a senior citizen’s perfect handset, not that my grandma wouldn’t fancy an iPhone or an HTC Touch Diamond.
[via Yanko Design]
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As if the launch of the BlackBerry Bold wasn’t enough, there’s a new rumour in town saying that RIM is getting ready to launch a full touchscreen device, dubbed “Thunder”. There’s already a site created for this phone ready to update us daily on the news regarding and a neat product rendering of the handset from Boy Genius Report:
So far, we know that BlackBerry Thunder will sport a full touchscreen display, 4 simple keys: send, end, menu and back and that its model name will be BlackBerry 9500. Also, some sources claim it’ll come with 4G support, being available on Vodafone in Europe and on Verizon Wireless in the US.
Launch date? Somewhere in Q3 of this year, but this is a rumour, too. It’ll be weird to see BlackBerry Bold and Thunder 9500 competing as iPhone rivals, but I doubt RIM will want to “kill” the sales of its just launched device, so we’ll see the full touchscreen handset probably in 2009.
[via The Boy Genius Report]
