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CUin5 Concept: Five Sides to a Story

25 Feb, 2007, 4:00 pm IST | by Aalaap Ghag | Mobile phones

There are people who love monoblock/candybar phones because they find it inconvenient to open a clamshell. There are people who find it too tedious to slide up a slider phone with just a finger. And then, there are those who can't be bothered to even turn a phone to speak into the right side. For them there's someone else out there that can feel your pain.



This concept phone from CUin5 is a monoblock with six sides. Normal? Hardly. Five of the six sides has an independent keypad, a speaker and a microphone. The two, bigger surfaces have two keypads. That’s SEVEN fully-functional keypads in one phone. Seven different ways to interact with it.

Whenever any button of the phone is clicked, that keypad becomes the active one, glowing up, while the others lock up to prevent accidental entry. According to the creator, Branko Lukic, its easier to use in a hurry, for example, reaching out for the phone in your bag and quickly interacting with it, instead of flipping it and turning it to find the right side.

I’ve been thinking... how do you put on the keypad lock in a phone like this? Or better still, how do you unlock it?

Tags: CUin5 , Branko Lukic , Concept

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