Note: There is a rating embedded within this post, please visit this post to rate it.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]