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The ’80s and ’90s are coming in hot these days, between the nostalgia of Black Mirror and Stranger Things, plus a new Top Gun movie. The retro trend is also hitting phones, at least concept phones, like the Macintosh-inspired iPhone below.
Digital artist Future Punk is behind this project and he even made a very convincing ad for it. The designer uses the older design approach of the company to try and define a new handset. It’s a combo of the Apple Macintosh and iMac G3 that’s turned into a phone. The result is a candybar handset with a transparent and colorful back side and a logo that seems to light up.
I haven’t quite figured what the two darker portions at the back are, but they look like cameras. They’re probably not though, since the device doesn’t even have a touchscreen, so a camera seems a stretch. I also find the D Pad on the green version a bit too cramped, but I love the old timey numeric buttons of the gray model. Everyone of us who had a PC in the 1990s had a keyboard with keys like that.
I have to say that the dual tone and transparent back of these phones isn’t half bad, even for a product that would be launched now. The front side needs to be taken with a lot of nostalgia, though…
[via The Verge/ Futurepunk]
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