Saturday, February 20th, 2010
(5 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)
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Dan Lewis recently sent us a mail, showing his concept phone, the Crestarola handset, pictured below. He claims that the device is a combo between an Android OS phone and a Palm OS one, although I think that this would make a pretty good Windows Mobile phone.
Its interface is very basic, although a bit old-fashioned, but the virtual keyboard is really original.
You can click on the image to view its larger version and we have to mention that the Crestarola concept phone packs a pretty big full touch display, a camera at the back and probably an important amount of memory and many connectivity options. What do you think about this phone design?
[Thanks Dan]
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
(15 votes, average: 3.93 out of 5)
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Talented designer Antoine Brieux has shown us his
NAK concept phone before, but now there’s a new version available, dubbed the Screen. This “no design cellphone” comes with a special NAK screen, a virtual handset body and many possibilities of customization.
Users will personalize their phones as they please and there a couple of examples below, like the Rubber Stone, Silver Surf and Glass Soap designs. Technology won’t be compromised by design changes, so this supports the modular phone technology, if we can say so.
Why make things complicated with fancy design, when all we need are phone components and pure technology, while the design is decided by the NAK Screen? We’ll just swap components and designs as we please, with the main flaw of this idea being maybe the decay of companies like Sony Ericsson or Nokia, not allowing such much customization.
[Thanks Antoine]
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
(4 votes, average: 3.75 out of 5)
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Reporting about the
Fujitsu concept phones showcased at CEATEC 2009 hasn’t quite been a ball, specially since most of them were available online as mere pictures, so it’s up to us to speculate on their features and design. The list goes on, with the seventh concept, pictured below, a full touchscreen display handset.
The phone seems pretty normal, a touchscreen device with a pretty big screen, an on-screen numeric keypad and two strange segments on the upper and lower side. These two really made me curious and wonder what the deal with them was… Are they hinges of an unusual flip phone? Tiny camera sensors maybe? Projectors?
What do you think of this phone design?
[via Akihabara News]
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
(7 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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After showing us a
teaser of his future project, Shane A. Bygrave introduces the Sony Ericsson G819 Compass concept phone, a pretty hot Android 2.0 handset. The device uses an ARM Cortex-A12 1GHz processor, a 3D graphics HW accelerator and a microSD card slot for cards of up to 32GB.
Sony Ericsson G819 measures 112 x 55 x 13mm, weighs 126 grams and feaures a 3.5 inch TFT touchscreen with a 360 x 640 pixels resolution. A-GPS and WiFi are also on board, together with Bluetooth, Google Maps, a modem feature, PictBridge, TV out, USB and Compass Assistance.
This phone also incorporates a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, BestPic, face detection, VGA 30 fps video recording, geotagging, image stabiliser, smile detection and touch capture. The Compass feature is demoed in one of the images below and it’ll help you get directions, no matter where you are.
[via Esato]
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Monday, June 15th, 2009
(4 votes, average: 4.75 out of 5)
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After having a look at Liam Quinn’s very
first concept phone, we realized that the designer is something special and now we get to see another one of Liam’s works. Dubbed the “triPhone”, this concept was named like this because it comes with a triangular speaker and a flash arrangement with the same shape. It all started off as an iPhone concept…
Liam claims that the new handset runs Windows Mobile 7 and comes with a multi touch interface, plus it features a 12.1 megapixel camera with dual LED or single Xenon flash. A 2MP cam is also present on the front side and it’s used for video calling, as for the rest of the specs of this phone, triPhone comes with a 4 inch widescreen multi touch OLED display, with very good contrast.
The phone’s battery life is very good and on the back side of the device you’ll find an angled OLED display, used to alert the user when incoming messages or calls arrive. There’s also a full QWERTY keyboard with a fingerprint scanner and Windows Media player button on board and even a game pad, as you can see in the picture above.
triPhone comes in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB versions and its camera uses features like smile shot, anti shake, mosaic, frames, fun effects, touch focus and more. Liam Quinn images that this device is created by Apple or maybe Sony Ericsson (Cybershot?) and you might want to know that it doesn’t use any external hard buttons and it only includes one port, in order to keep it thin.
What do you think about Liam’s latest concept? I say that the designer’s skills are improving.
[Thanks Liam]
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Thursday, June 11th, 2009
(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Liam Quinn has shown us a very
neat phone design a while back and now this concept phone has been finished, so it’s time to check it out again. Also, we get more details on the handset’s specifications. Liam mentions that the phone got a couple of exterior buttons (on/off/lock and camera) as a novelty and the flashes got tweaked.
This concept phone runs Android and comes with 2 full touchscreen displays, sliding buttons at the front and a camera at the back with dual LED and/or Xenon flash, plus concertina optical zoom. The sliding buttons we’ve mentioned can move independently or as one piece and the middle slider is able to change function depending on the app you’re using, or the mode of handset (movie, music etc).
Also, we learn that this device is modular, as it comes in more versions and parts can be mixed and matched from each other. For example, the basic no camera version of the phone can get a 12 megapixel camera upgrade with OLED display, by attaching the needed part on the back side.
The lower end version of Liam Quinn’s phone comes with a basic keyboard (non touch), that can be upgraded to a full touchscreen keyboard, if the user wants to. The basic handset packs 8GB of internal memory, but you can upgrade it to 60GB and even replace the battery, tweaking the device in many ways.
So, you’ll start off with a basic low end phone and keep buying parts till you get a very hot smartphone with a 12 megapixel camera and 60GB of memory… How cool is that? Looking forward to checking out new designs from Lian Quinn. What do you say about this first concept of the promising designer?
[Thanks Liam]
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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It’s finally time to check out a concept phone that’s not a Sony Ericsson, Nokia or
iPhone… We’re dealing with the G9 mobile phone, created by Ichiro Iwasaki, a handset that can be used anywhere on the globe. This sliding phone comes with an exchangeable stainless steel frame with 3 customized finishes and slanted keys.
G9 incorporates a large, easy to use LCD display, while that “double keypad” layout looks pretty interesting and I think that it’s the first time I’ve seen a design like this. Notice that the device’s dock is also pretty elegant and I’m wondering how easy to use are those keys, because they seem very user-friendly.
[via Tuvie]
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Two British researchers have come up with a prototype “phone tooth” that can be embedded in the user’s molar and receive calls. The signal will be turned into vibrations and it’ll travel from your tooth to the skill via your internal ear, so you’ll hear the call.
This would make a great gadget for spies, but it’s a bad idea for the masses, since some people want to text and it’ll be tough for the one calling you to hear what you’re saying, if not impossible. Imagine having a full-fledged smartphone in your mouth… now that would be painful.
[via cellphonenews.biz]
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Here’s another creation by Rumen Penev (Penev Studio Design), the Bulgarian designer that showed us that neat
ladies phone and a couple of other
interesting handsets. This time we’re dealing with a concept phone that packs a sliding numeric keypad, that looks a bit fragile.
The answer/reject call keys are fairly basic (Yes/No) and the screen of the device is pretty large. Could it be a touchscreen? Will the sliding part crack under pressure? What do you say?
[Thanks Rumen]
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Saturday, May 30th, 2009
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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After checking out some neat Sony Ericsson handsets, we return to Rumen Penev’s creations once again. We’ve seen his concept phones before and the
Kragal ladies phone was really interesting, but now we’re moving into a different segment. The handsets below would make great Android handsets or they could even deserve the Sony Ericsson branding.
The first concept phone’s keys placement is a tad bizarre, but I’m guessing it features a touchscreen, that will do all the work, as far as interaction and input are concerned. The second design is the Rumbeca handset below, a fairly basic phone with answer call/reject call keys below the screen, that’s probably a touch display. Android device? Maybe…
If you have a look at the blue concept phone and the greenish one below, you’ll realize that they’re variations of the Rumbeca device, but they come with side buttons, and originally shaped keys below the display. The last handset is not much of a looker, specially because its lower side makes it look bulky, while the key placement and design seems uninspired.
What do you think?
[Thanks Rumen]
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