Monday, March 10th, 2008
(9 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)
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The gaming folks of Kotaku have come up with a neat PSP 2 design contest, which showed us what people think of the next generation of Sony’s portable consoles. A couple of them are interesting to say the least, but my favourite is the very first one you can admire below. It’s got a touchscreen, a 16GB flash drive, a webcam, a PS2 emulator and tons of other features, but still… it’s no PSP Phone.
Another concept I digged was this “bogus design” below, created by Torokun. This PSP 2 features a touchscreen with a multi touch sensor, an 852 x 480 and 16:9 display to be more precise and a pretty neat sliding mechanism. It may remind some of you of what Nokia was trying to do back in the days with some of its handsets, but this concept goes far beyond and still manages to include that UMD drive we don’t need, plus the useful memory slot.
Check out Kotaku’s site for more PSP 2 designs and you’ll probably see a video of these designs in here tomorrow!
[via Kotaku]
Posted in Cool concepts, Portable Consoles | 11 Comments »
Monday, March 10th, 2008
(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)
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While most of the world’s waiting for the 3G version of the iPhone, some of us are already thinking about the next-gen handset produced by Apple. An “iPhone 2″ mirage concept surfaced on the Education First Educational Tours page available on iTunes… Well, it’s a Zune-like device placed at the corner of an image. Whan do you make of that?
[via Engadget Mobile]
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
(2 votes, average: 4 out of 5)
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Although Valentine’s Day has passed, people are always keen on heart-shaped devices, specially on those designed for children. This is also the case of the Okids Heart concept phone designed by Sung-kyun Nam and posted on Coroflot. It’s a handset that targets 5 year olds or older kids and it would be nice to see it surfacing under Anycall’s branding.
Of course, this is a cellphone that parents will buy for their children, specially due to its catchy design, as it morphs from its standard pill shape to a heart shape. They stand for love and protection, defining the ideal kids phone.
Did I mention that it features some version of Tetris?
[via Coroflot]
Posted in Cool concepts, Kids Phones | 3 Comments »
Friday, March 7th, 2008
(3 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5)
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Usually, fashion phones are labelled as good-lookers with poor features, but once in a while an exception pleases the fashionistas out there who really care about their megapixel count and internal memory. The S-series concept is designed by Simon Enever and it’s available on Coroflot and in the T3 magazine.
This slider is made from wood, brushed aluminium and steel and features a nice black acrylic wrap. It seems to include both a touchscreen and a normal keypad, plus a frontal camera for 3G calls. Aside from that, its keys are really stylish, but not really comfortable for one’s fingers, while the camera features a pretty big flash guaranteed to light your way through the fancy fashionista universe.
[via Coroflot and Yanko Design]
Posted in Fashion Phones | 1 Comment »
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
(4 votes, average: 3.75 out of 5)
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Before we get our hands on the iPhone SDK and a brand new PSP Phone rumour, let me contemplate a neat Photoshop design of Sony Ericsson T660i, a handset that’s destined to remain a concept for now. What you can see below is the 2008 version of this concept device, designed by sunils120 and surfaced on the Esato forum:
This is not the first T660i concept I’ve seen, as there’s also another version of the handset, designed by WhiteEye. In case you’re wondering, there’s a pretty decent list of specs for this device, ranging from a pretty good camera to FM radio. Here’s what T660i (the 2007 concept) features and a neat picture of the device at the bottom of the post:
- GSM/UMTS/HSDPA 3.6 Mbps
- 3.2 mega pixel camera
- premium finish with stainless steel, smoked glass and mineral glass
- FM radio with RDS
- Bluetooth 2.0
- 2.1 inch QVGA 262K screen
- Memory Stick Micro (M2) support
- dynamic illumination
- available color: Eclipse Black
[via Esato and blog.se-ven.net]
Posted in Sony Ericsson | 3 Comments »
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
(8 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5)
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One of the main designers of the Sprint Fli concept I’ve shown you last week, John Sundermeyer came up with a neat-looking fashion concept phone you can admire below. It features dynamic coloured illumination plus over-sized keypad numbers to set you apart from the rest of the fashionistas in the club.
The concept phone is unofficially branded Voce, but maybe we’ll see it surfacing under some major brand someday. What do you make of it? Will it be a Sony Ericsson Walkman, an LG or maybe a Motorola?
[Thanks to John Sundermeyer]
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008
(4 votes, average: 4.75 out of 5)
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Since we’re tired of only hearing PSP 2 and PSP Phone rumours, let’s give good old Nintendo a chance and check out their new DS concept, designed by Phil Nolan. Can anyone say “crisp display?” It seems we’re dealing with a thinner device, which features a quality display plus the same control system Nintendo has been using for the past years.
Its designer states that the console is inspired by the Wii, PSP and iPhone. The quality of the graphics charms us enough to really want this baby for Christmas 2008.
[via philnolan3d]
Posted in Portable Consoles | 5 Comments »
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
(3 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)
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Ever wanted to control your cellphone with one hand only? Ever tried doing that and ended up writing poor text messages? Thought so. Mitsumi now has a sollution for you, materialized in the haptic input device you can see in the following image.
This device will be placed on the rear of your handset and it will basically give you one-handed control for your phone. The prototype is a tad thicker than we would have expected but Mitsumi promised to release a thinner commercial version. Meanwhile, as Engadget mentions, Mitsumi’s concept includes “a sheet with small protrusions, a resistance sensitive touch pad and switches”.
[via engadget]
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
(2 votes, average: 3 out of 5)
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While the Google Phone is somewhat closer to becoming a real device, the YahooPhone or the YPhone is barely a trademark, which belongs to wireless phone developer Hop-on Inc. from February 5, this year. Anything associated to this brand is also under their trademark, so Yahoo! are up for one neat legal action if they’re going to release a beauty like that.
We might as well be dealing with a company that will develop Yahoo! phone, but given the reputation of Hop-on and its passion for trademark/patent disputes, I highly doubt it. Just hope that Yahoo! won’t “pull a Skype” on us and announce/release the phone all of a sudden without too much fuss.
[via trademork]
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