The latest trends and designs in the cellphone industry have simply outclassed the landline phones in the past few years. Reviving the grandeur of the desk phones, German designer Ronny Sauer has developed a stylish phone dubbed the “Hello Tomorrow” that comes with an adjustable interface that users can optimize individually at home or in the office to meet their personal needs. Embedding a clear display on the receiver, the phone concept gives access to all the functions, even when the receiver is docked in the phone. In addition, the sleek, trendy design of the table phone goes hand in hand with the decor of contemporary places.
Looking more like a mobile chipset the X-RAY for KDDI iida by Tokujin Yoshioka takes a refreshing look at mobile design. The striking appearance based on an idea of “designing from the inside” aims at giving the talking hearing device a beautiful transparent look. Made using a special material, the brand new mobile phone truly exposes the mesh inside that makes communication possible.
Look up, peasant, from your soot-stained hands. Drop that shovel into the furrowed ground and gaze upon the magic* that Mozilla has wrought. Concept designer Billy May, working through Mozilla’s “Open Web Concept Phone” project, has gathered community feedback and followed up on some rather mundane visions for the mobile future with this little beauty, the Mozilla Seabird. The completely fictional device has a disturbing initial resemblance to a BlackBerry Storm, but as the video unfolds the functionality is really what sells this thing. The big innovation is the use of dual pico projectors on the side of the handset, which can provide different functionality based on the phone’s orientation: flat on a table they pump out the two halves of a QWERTY keyboard, up on a dock they offer the dual purpose of a large viewing screen above and a seamless projected keyboard below. Other features, like the pop-out wireless pointer / Bluetooth headset are slightly less realistic but no less charming. Now, before you get too excited, you should know that Mozilla has no plans to build this or any phone, they’re just messing around with some fancy 3D software and the bright imagination of their community of users. Still, for the two minutes and thirty seven seconds that the video after the break unfolds, allow yourself to think: “What if?”
NOKIA E10 is a concept phone which has a bendable screen and can provide two useage mode through folding structure. The screen material is flexible and thin enough to roll around onto a 6mm axis, so it can save more spaces.
Here’s a new iPhone 5 concept, this time not too detailed and relying very much on the video at the end of the article. Created by WaterWorks/ Christopher East, this iPhone design relies on futuristic hologram projections.
