Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Future's Mobile Phone

Mobile phone business is one of the most rapid 

growing industries. Not so long ago, 
the popular check phone was Nokia 

3310 with mere basic functions: call, 
text messaging and the only 

bearable game, snake. However, significant 
improvement has been made 

since then. We now have so many variety 
of phones that surpasses the 

basic function, smart phones for example 
allows you to connect to social

media conveniently, GPS, video conferencing etc.

What will be next? What we can expect from 

the next generation of handsets that will be available in
the next 10 

year? Some of the few features that will be built in 
new cell phones are OLED screen and enhancement

in flexibility.

Below is a list of creative and 

interesting futuristic phone concepts.

Kyocera’s Flexible, Folding Phone Concept

Kyocera’s

EOS folding concept phone incorporates a 
flexible OLED screen, changing

its form from a clamshell into something 
resembling a wallet or 

clutch-purse.

Motorolla Piccolo Concept Phone

The

Piccolo Concept 1 cell phone received its design 
inspiration by 

Motorola, bringing a sexy and sleek concept 
that will definitely appeal 

to females.

Multimedia Concept Phone

Designer

Jakub LekeÅ¡ tries to push the limits of phone 
designing with his 

concept. This phone has many useful features.
 A sliding touch screen 

QWERTY keyboard is concealed under the display 
and there is a 4.3 

megapixel autofocus camera with digital zoom support
 on the back. The 

most interesting feature is the side of the phone that 
shows the running

track.

LG Traveler Concept Phone

Created

by Andrew Zheng, the handset is a thin slider with a 
touch screen on 

board and a physical button keypad. The unusual shape
 of the LG Traveler

phone was created for better grip and this aspect gets
 enhanced. Thanks

to rubbers grips on the side.

Eclipse Intuit Phone

Eclipse 

Intuit phone by Eddie Goh. It has the entire basic feature we’ve come to

expect from our mobiles: powerful 5 megapixel camera 
with built-in 

software for editing and uploading pictures to photo album,
 slide-out 

touch keyboard with tactile feedback and a nice big 
touch screen front 

and center. What makes this concept unique is parts of
 the phone are 

made from a chemically based thin solar skin to charge
 the battery when 

it’s exposed to any kind of light.

The Kambala Ear-Phone

The 

Kambala is a mobile phone that transforms to an earphone 
as well. Pop 

the center piece and the earpiece clip pings out; clip this
 to your ear 

and you got a phone-earphone! Multilayered Polymer 
which hosts all the 

electronic components is used in its construction. 
A continuous 

flexi-screen with plenty of sensors makeup the surface 
and it has the 

ability to transmit the image on the inside of 
the phone to the outside.

LG Flutter Concept Phone

The LG

Flutter will have an opportunity to be featured in a 
future blockbuster

movie. The device opens up like a fan, as you can 
see in the image 

above and has a flexible OLED touch screen 
display that scrolls 

radically.

Nanokia

The designer Mac 

Funamizu drew on the Nokia Aeon to design a phone he 
would like to have.

Complete with Apple’s standard livery. Using a
 nondescript tactile 

feedback technology, its surface adapts to different 
purposes while the 

e-ink screen envelops the phone in graphics
 and information.

Mobile Script

This phone/laptop

packs a small front touch display plus a larger screen 
on the inside of

the handset. The latter can be pulled out and become
 an even larger 

display turning the device into a mini laptop. 
The “Mobile Script” 

mobile phone does not require a power charge. Its case
 is covered with a

nano material, converting the Sun light into the energy
 for your phone 

feed.

NEC Tag Phone Concept

An 

intriguing concept from NEC Design, this Tag Soft-Shell
 Mobile Phone 

shows how cumbersome carrying a phone in your pocket can
 be. Made of 

rubbery "shape-memorizing" material, the tag will bend and 
twist at your

command.

LG Helix Bracelet Phone

Designer

Rob Luna created an LG concept phone called Helix, 
a device that can 

also be used as a slap bracelet worn on the owner’s 
wrist. LG Helix 

comes with flexible circuits, a touch screen display and
 the concept 

device is made out of rubber and black stainless steel. You 
can attach 

the handset to the belt, through a magnetic charger and use
 the kinetic 

energy generated by the user to power up the cell phone.

Motorola Sparrow

Motorola has 

come up with a new concept of Motorola Sparrow. 
A concept conceived to 

provide retail stores with a mobile point of sale device. 
The Motorola 

Sparrow is an all-in-one device that combines a scanner, RFID,
 point of 

sale (POS) system, communication and credit card reading 
capabilities. 

Equipped with touch sensitive areas, the front and back of
 the Motorola 

Sparrow makes it easy to navigate and use.

Yuxa From Eco-Friendly Materials

Mexican

designer Veronica Eugenia Rodriguez Ortiz created 
the Yuxa wearable 

cell phone concept. This is an eco-friendly phone 
featuring an OLED 

display and rechargeable battery, plus an innovative 
means of 

communication.

Bracelet Phone Concept

Designer

Tao Ma has designed an inimitably different concept phone 
that has got 

the looks of a bracelet. The shiny gizmo vibrates when you 
receive a 

message and you can read the text by taking the bracelet off
 the wrist 

and pressing its precious looking keys.

Nokia 888 Mobile Phone

New 

Nokia concept – Nokia 888. It uses liquid battery, 
speech recognition, 

flexible touch screen, touch sensitive body cover 
which lets it 

understand and adjust to the environment.

Blue Bee Phone

Another 

futuristic smart phone created by Kingyo. 
Blue Bee is a very interesting

handset interface which is also appealing at the same time.

Relexer Cellphone

Designer Lu 

Yin has designed a mobile phone called “Relexer”. 
As its name suggest it

also function as a medical gadget to review the health of 
the users. 

Integrating a thermometer that can be worn around the 
wrist like a 

bracelet, the cell phone measures the temperature and 
other drastic 

discrepancies in the body.

HTC 1

The concept designer 

Andrew Kim has designed the HTC 1 to be a premium
 Android device. It is 

designed to use machined brass to add strength to the 
phone. Some 

notable features of the concept include stereo speakers 
(located at the 

top and bottom of the phone), a kickstand which is 
actually the bottom 

portion of the casing, and the lofty concept of a 
built-in UV light 

which kills germs on the surface of the phone 
while you charge up.

Nokia Morph Cell Phone Concept

The

Morph is a concept that demonstrates how future mobile 
devices might be

stretchable and flexible, allowing the user to transform 
their mobile 

device into radically different shapes. It demonstrates the
 ultimate 

functionality that nanotechnology capable of delivering: 
flexible 

materials, transparent electronics and self-cleaning 
surfaces.

Connext Concept

Connext is an 

all-in-one, flexible smart device designed by James Zhang that
 can morph

its form to fit the application that it assumes. Combining 
OLED 

touch-screen technology with E-paper flexibility, this device can
 switch

to become a mobile phone, computer, multimedia player, watch, 
physical 

avatar etc.

BenQ

Siemens Concept Phone

Latest BenQSiemens‘s concept 

phone that wraps around your hand.

LG’s Folding Phone

This HiFi 

concept headset gives us a whole new way of using a cell phone. 
It’s a 

peculiar touch screen phone which the headset can be wrapped 
around the 

head to enjoy music and attend to call even when you are moving 
around.

Mooon Concept Phone

Mooon 

concept phone designed by Sunman Kwon has a sleek,
 big and beautiful 

touch screen, and of course a camera. What’s special 
about Mooon is that

at the bottom of this phone, you’ll find a Bluetooth 
headset, 

detachable when you need it.

Nokia Kinetic Concept Design

Creative

designer Jeremy Innes-Hopkins has an interesting concept 
phone called 

the Nokia Kinetic. An electromagnet in the base of the phone
 allows 

weight to be shifted which causes the phone to stand up when
 receiving a

call.

LG Exo Smartphone

LG Exo 

Smartphone designed by Benjamin Lotte is a good-looking 
phone with a 

high strength polymer exoskeleton for protecting the delicate 
internal 

components. The external skin is made of rubber that enhance 
ergonomics 

and increase strength. You can easily change the skin color to
 the color

you desire.

Philips Fluid Flexible Concept

The

Philips Fluid Smartphone designed by Brazilian designer Dinard
 da Mata 

looks like one of those "Slap Wrap" slap bracelets kids used to 
wear in 

the 90s. Flexibility is one thing that makes it differ from 
conventional

smart phones. Made of OLED, it can keep all the features
 of a smart 

phone available while adding the extra advantage of
 turning into a 

bracelet.

Seabird Concept

Seabird is 

Mozilla Labs concept phone. The Seabird is a concept phone
 packed with 

cool features including integrated Pico Projector that can
 be used to 

project a virtual keyboard.

Nagisa Phone Concept

Cool phone 

concept by Mac Funamizu. This smart phone has some
 incredible features. 

The dented keypad that gives the look of a wavy sea bed
 and the screen 

is designed in such way that it turns almost 180 degrees.

Glass Phone Concept

Glass phone

concept is also created by designer Mac Funamizu.

DYA Phone: A New Concept

This 

new DYA phone brings a whole new meaning
 to the world slider. 
DYA phone 

has an unique design that uses diagonal cut and become 
compact when not 

in use. But it is large enough for any other 
basic function you need.

futures mobile phone