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Nokia N950 is the creation of Vladimir Zorin, an interesting upgrade of the N900 design. The device is able to slide in two directions, revealing a 3 row QWERTY keyboard in one sliding direction and a numeric pad plus the D Pad segment of the QWERTY slider in the other.
The handset looks pretty bulky and we bet MeeGo would fit right on. The first type of sliding mechanism, shown in the image above is designed rather for nostalgics, than for practical use. Who would need numeric keys once we have a touchscreen and QWERTY keyboard available?
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Nokia’s X Series is getting more and more love recently, so we even stumbled upon a concept, the Nokia X9, that gets pictured below. This handset comes from Greece and it’s based on the X6, but it brings great features to the scene, stuff like a 12 megapixel camera with HD video recording and a HDMI port.
Dedicated Facebook and Twitter keys are also on board and we sure hope this beauty can run Symbian^4. The screen on this Nokia concept is a capacitive one, while the camera does 720p capture and uses a quad LED module. Nokia X9′s specs list also includes a microSD card slot, dual micro USB connectivity and support for push notifications.
Music can be streamed and shared on this device, via Over The Air methods and you can even share a playlist or album with your friends. Will we ever see such a model on the market, or will it remain a design?
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Designer Reginald Shola Hingston shows us another one of his Nokia concepts, after the Nokia Stealth model. This time we’re dealing with the Nokia 82 Dragonfly, pictured below and keeping the simplistic design language of the Finnish company.
This is supposed to be an entry level phone, packing a numeric keypad, a navigation mechanism beneath the screen, probably a camera at the back and a pretty big screen. Here’s another look at Reginald Shola Hingston’s works.
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While Nokia’s busy with readying a bunch of new smarphones and cameraphones, we have a look at a new concept bearing their branding, the Nokia Stealth. Created by Reginald Shola Hingston, this mid level handset is destined to reach the pockets of tech enthusiasts and you can learn what it’s all about after the break.
The Nokia concept comes with an ergonomically sculpted keypad, that allows the user to easily navigate by touch sensation, plus a rubberised matte textured surface, that absorbs light on radii, giving a feeling of flat facets. Nokia Stealth also uses a pearlescent matte coloring, that gives it a dark red hue, reminding us of radar lenses.
For more projects of this designer you can have a look at his Coroflot profile.
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There were a few Nokia fans who regretted the canning of the N-Gage gaming phone series, but there is still hope for this idea, specially if you believe in concepts. The folks of Recombu created the Nokia Ovi Orion, a gaming phone design, pictured below.
Nokia Ovi Orion looks like a combo between a Palm Pre and an iPhone, with a strange QWERTY keyboard and a hidden one line display at the back. This bizarre design might make gaming more user-friendly, but what’s really important is the front multitouch capacitive touchscreen, with a huge diagonal, hopefully.
We wouldn’t be surprised if a Tegra or Snapdragon CPU was on board too, as well as HDMI out and a decent bunch of speakers. The question is: does Nokia have the software platform for such a device? Here’s a short video demo of the concept gaming phone:
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Jon DeGorsky created a brand new Nokia concept phone, the M31, that impresses through its dual touchscreen displays. It seems that the handset is inspired by crop circles, in the visual department.
The two integrated displays are revealed after sliding the phone and you have to know that the top screen will show contacts, Internet browsing features, a mailbox, messaging functions, games, calendar and settings.
Nokia M31′s inner display provides the virtual numeric keyboard, also the interface changing bar and the “letter interface”. I can also spot a camera at the back of the handset and all in all, the device is pretty good, albeit a tad too short for my taste.
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We’ve seen quite a bunch of transparent phone designs lately, but none of them had the Nokia brand on. Luckily, designer Juan Carlos Garzon created one such Nokia concept, with a touchscreen interface and a transparent display.
The lower side of the handset includes the battery, most of the hardware, incorporates the on/off button (front side) and a 5 megapixel camera (at the back). This Nokia concept’s display also emits light, allowing for better usage during night time.
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Nokia used the talents of Kevin Cannon and Tobias Toft, both attending classes at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction, in order to showcase the company’s ideas for future mobile phone interaction. The two showed how they think that mobile phones will change in the next 2, to 4 years.
These videos were done following extensive research, interviews with 4 people and the result were 3 areas of focus: “Playfulness”, “Staying Connected” and “People Centric”. All of these concepts will help people stay in touch with their loved ones, stay playful while using a Nokia mobile phone and keep a friends list under a more fun to use shape.
I particularly like the second concept video, since it’s basically a new way to connect people, while the playful friends interface is not something I’m really fond of, since it tends to be a bit too playful for adult users.
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Want a device that’s both futuristic and elegant, both sci-fi and scheduled for 2010? A team of designers created the incredible Nokia CLIPit concept phone, that is considered 2010 material and comes with incredible feats, like using the finger print as a SIM, a 12 inch screen and Persian turquoise stone encrusted.
This is the creation of Mohammad Zamani, Ziba Hemmati, Mir Kazem khalifezadeh, Ali Khajuee and Rasul Shokrani. Nokia CLIPit is made out of brushed steel, among others and it features a touch pad dot matrix screen, a clip on design and “smart fabrics” that pull out the 12 inch screen. On top of the device there’s a steel touchscreen based on a group of tiny Light Emitting Diodes incorporated in the steel section.
This can generate dynamic buttons, serving all purposes, from navigation, to dialling numbers and music control. If you pull down the device’s clip, it’ll turn into a hands free and you should also know that the Nokia concept can be connected to any other gadgets by clipping it to them.
If you’re curious about the huge 12 inch screen, know that the basic display is a 3 inch unit, but it’s made out of a flexible cloth, based on Philips’ Lumative technology. The 3 inch color screen is the upper layer of the screen, but it can expand its size via “smart fabrics”, that are cloths with sensor nets between their layers, with touch support embedded.
Thanks to this technology, Nokia CLIPit can become a pocket folding 12 inch laptop. Although not many people noticed this beautiful concept, I dare to say that it’s as important in 2009 as Nokia Morph was in 2008. Great effort from the designers and it would be a pity if CLIPit remains a concept.
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Nokia World 2009 ended last week, but we’re still getting bits and pieces of the Finns’ presentations in Stuttgart. The most impressive of them was certainly the Nokia Mixed Reality concept, a technology based on augmented reality and very cool accessories.
Among the gadgets there are interactive windows, futuristic eye glasses with RSS readers, web browsers and content players embedded, plus a haptic wrist bracelet. The glasses were particularly impressive, since they allowed the user to browse the web and menus with his eyes, while a headset played the tunes he or she wanted…
This is how Nokia evolved in one year: from last year’s Morph to this. Congratulations are in order!
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Nokia N950 is the creation of Vladimir Zorin, an interesting upgrade of the N900 design. The device is able to slide in two directions, revealing a 3 row QWERTY keyboard in one sliding direction and a numeric pad plus the D Pad segment of the QWERTY slider in the other.
