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This DoCoMo concept is somewhat familiar to me, since I’ve seen joint handsets before and even devices that split and come together again in order to create a single unit. This modular handset created by DoCoMo is a working prototype and you can see that one of the parts is used as a keyboard/remote for the other phone, but the devices also work as standalone units.
More action at DoCoMo’s Mobile World Congress 2009 booth:
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Oh my God! I didn’t expect to see the 8 megapixel camera – Walkman player combo too soon, but here it is and it’s known as Hikaru, NOT a Sony Ericsson concept, but a real device. Hikaru is a slider phone with metal housing and probably the only really high end music handset in years…
It’s got a 2.6 inches display, 8 GB memory, Walkman player 4.0, a 3.5 mm audio jack, stereo speakers and music keys. Expect it to be announced at Mobile World Congress 2009 and launched at the end of Q2 2009. Brilliant!
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My, my, my how time flies… I got so caught up in blogging about concept phones that I even forgot about the birthday of this website. On 5th February 2007, we posted a blog about the Sony Ericsson PSP Phone. It was the beginning of a journalistic/blogging adventure, with the sole purpose of showing the world the devices we’ll be using in the future.
Now, Concept-Phones.com is one year old and we’d like to thank each and every designer for their wonderful concepts and all the folks who sent us tips, critique and various designs via mail and of course, our readers. We couldn’t have done it without you guys!
Now, to celebrate the event, we want to launch a brand new section of our website, called “Wish They Were Phones” (WTWP).
Basically this section is all about the concept devices that are NOT phones, but we’d like them to be, or they only lack a minor feature to deserve being called handsets. Those will usually be remote controls, audio players, portable consoles, netbooks and whatnot… WTWP makes its debut with the great HP Thync universal remote control, designed by David Chacon.
The gadget can control basically anything in your house and it’s a handheld device that packs a pretty big touchscreen and maybe even voice recognition. Notice that there’s even a phone function among the features of the remote, so we’re not so crazy if we call this WTFP material.
Any other ideas for the “Wish They Were Phones” section?
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This OLPC 2.0 design is very similar to some other concepts we’ve seen, among which there was a very neat Nintendo DS 2 and a bunch of netbook/tablets. Notice the dual touchscreen layout and keep in mind that this is only a mockup, although every concept that surfaces now and in the following two weeks is a candidate for a Mobile World Congress 2009 release.
I wonder if the kids (target audience) for this device will enjoy using its two touchscreen displays…
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The T-Mobile G2 concepts looked so good that it’s going to be quite hard to live up to the expectations of the public, drooling over those beautiful designs. And now we’ve got the photos above, that show the brand new Android G2, without a sliding QWERTY keypad and packing a 3.2 megapixel camera.
Also, the new device is thinner, shinier and the source that leaked the photos claims it’ll hit the market in May. The interface is the same as the one on the T-Mobile G1, but I wasn’t waiting for Android 2.0 so soon, although I hope that all the bugs of the first version were corrected.
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What’s missing from RIM right now? They’ve got that successful Storm handset, they even have a clamshell phone, with some business appeal and who knows what else they’ll launch in 2009… Hopefully, not something using their latest patent application, which you can check out below.
Imagine a candybar Pearl with an expandable keypad that unfolds on the device’s side and increases the space that’s available for texting and some business features.
Sadly, the result is not even a SureType keyboard on that narrow handset, so we sure hope the patent remains a strange idea from the R&D crew and nothing more.
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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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So close in fact, that it might surface during next month’s CES. The design you can see below was created by Seymour Powell (design firm) and it uses full color flexible e-paper, based on a technology developed by Liquavista. The resulting handset will display information in color, on any side of the device, as it’s covered in E-paper.
Liquavista’s display platform relies on the “electrowetting” technology, but there’s more research to do till the product is finalised.
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One of the many Android handsets to follow rather… Lenovo’s also playing the Android game, as they’ve just announced the Ophone, a device that will hit the Chinese market in 2009. Too bad it’s only meant for China, as its design is quite hot, but the support for TD-SCDMA 3G plus China Mobile’s apps kill in terms of usage abroad.
Maybe hackers will find a way of making this viable for Western markets, because it would be a real pity to miss out on such a hot looking device. Not that we won’t be seeing an invasion of other Android phones in the West too…
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This DoCoMo concept is somewhat familiar to me, since I’ve seen joint handsets before and even devices that split and come together again in order to create a single unit. This modular handset created by DoCoMo is a working prototype and you can see that one of the parts is used as a keyboard/remote for the other phone, but the devices also work as standalone units.
