Five Mobile Concepts You Need to See

21 Feb, 2011, 9:48 am IST | by Ashish Koshy

Check these crazy phone ideas out.

Five Mobile Concepts You Need to See

Are you bored of seeing the same kind of phones over and over again? I mean there aren’t many apart from touchscreens, flip phones, QWERTY handsets or slider phones. Every once a while though, we have new concepts coming out, which gives us a vague idea of what to expect from the future.

We have a few such phones for your eyes only and although most of them won’t end up in your hands, some ideas could very well be implemented. Let’s check them out.

Nokia Kinetic
The Kinetic is a concept design by Jeremy Innes-Hopkins for a fun Nokia handset. The curve behind not only gives the phone a unique look, but it also has a certain function of its own. When getting a call, the Kinetic can stand up, thereby alerting the user of an incoming call.  Basically, it is supposed to convert digital information to kinetic energy and hence the name.

 

Nokia in Kinetic motion

Nokia in Kinetic motion

 


I personally like the design and idea, but it’s hard to imagine how will it actually function when on a bed, sofa or some other soft surface? Anyway, if you don’t want the Smartphone to remain standing while it’s up, you can gently push it to go back to normal position.

 

A neat design for sure...

A neat design for sure...

 


Three-Sided Flip Phone

So I wasn’t very impressed with the Motorola Flipout but that doesn’t dent my feelings for a flip phone. The very basic movement of a keypad sliding out is bound to catch the eye. Here’s a three-sided flip phone that flips both ways (or is that three ways?).

 

That's creativity!

That's creativity!

 


The design by Kristian Urik Larsen has three AMOLED touch panels with a keyboard inside! The phone you’ll see in the video below is supposed to be running some flavour of Android and does it look super cool! This smartphone is not all about looks, as you can see there are various things that will captivate you nonetheless. The transfer of a file between two of these smartphones was what impressed me.

 

Tags: Concept phones , Nokia , Kinetic , Mozilla , Seabird , Three Sided Flip Phone , Bio Flip Phone , Traccia Phone , Mobiles , Concept Mobiles

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