Cell Phone Concept created by Bend

Why bother with one screen when you can have two for probably double the price? Designer Andy Kurovets presents his “Bend Mobile” concept. He thinks turning on a device and having it grow to nearly double its size will really be attractive to some people. He may be right but where is the proof ?

Oh right, he is also including a high capacity digital camera that also pops out to larger than expected proportions. All that and it’s curved, for easy sliding in and out of your pants.

LINC


LINC is a typical touch screen smart phone with all the connectivity and features you come to expect. Its got a cell phone, a media player, a web browser, GPS, downloadable content, Bluetooth, wifi, the latest 3G network. But here’s the catch. LINC is leased to the user as a service, not a product. The user holds on to the device for about a year, and when the next generation of hardware comes along, the user receives a new LINC in the mail. The LINCs inform the user of their hardware upgrade, wirelessly transfer the digital account, and before being shipped back to the manufacturer, LINC informs the user of the next part of its journey.
LINC is to be shipped back to a regional manufacturing facility. The device contains valuable materials like aluminum, glass, and electronic components that the producer can harvest for re-use. Typically, mobile phones contain hazardous waste that goes into a landfill or are left in a desk drawer to sit in.

LINC is designed for automated disassembly. A directed radiant heat beam targets its internal memory metal latch, releasing the assembly. In one step, LINC automatically disassembles into its few simple components, glass, aluminum and its circuit flex. The glass and aluminum, not containing any paints or adhesives, are easily recycled to pure grade materials for immediate reuse. The remaining flexible circuit contains all the electronics necessary for the entire device. It’s full of hazardous materials, but it has been safely recovered for proper disposal. Many of the chip sets can easily be pulled for reuse. Components like the graphics card are out dated for LINC, but can be used in devices like portable gaming systems.
In one step, LINC automatically disassembles into its few simple components, glass, aluminum and its circuit flex.

Cell Phone Concept created by Leaf

That green bandwagon is speeding down the global highway at break neck speeds and corporations are rushing to hop on. That’s the good news… the other good news is that electronics giant Siemens is looking for ways to make bold and beautiful green statements with these cordless telephone designs. Siemens Home and Office Communication division commissioned design firm Formwelt with guidance from Hans-Henning Brabänder to dream up these ultimate green phones for the home or office. The “Gigaset Eco Visions” “Leaf” and “Solar” are made of recyclable raw materials, such as eco-plastic and liquid wood. Sun-light is used as a natural energy source for handsets. An eco-index provides the “nutritional facts” regarding the environmental-friendliness of each phone. This includes the percentage of organic materials and number of components used at disassembly, the energy consumption and emissions in use and production as well as the how recyclable each product is. So much more relevant info on all the ways this design is innovative below.

Leaf has a unique natural design reminiscent of a leaf in spring. The eco plastics provide sensational haptics and substantial convenience. The invisible OLED display is embedded in a translucent lens encasement, giving the phone a futuristic touch.

E ink

This strangely cool looking phone is a device that uses E-Ink and no buttons to make a nokia Aeon look-alike phone. Of course it wont be a surprise that this phone is just a concept.

Qisda



At this year’s Red Dot Designs Awards edition, Qisda’s design concept received a honorable mention for its QCM-131 PDA model, optimized for easiest surfing, with a large 2.6-inch touch-sensitive display, an intuitive user interface, and 3.5G high data transfer speeds.
Qisda Corporation from Taipei, Taiwan, is one of the top 5 of manufacturers in LCD monitors, projectors, and multi functional printers, using advanced technologies like surface-mount technology , metal stamping, plastic injection, and LCD module assembling.

The Nokia Surge comes with a QWERTY keyboard that slides out, browsing features that include Flash support so that users can view the websites they love most in full HTML, Facebook support using the pre-installed application called Juice Caster, quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE connectivity, dual band UMTS/HSDPA connectivity (at 3.6 Mbps), a 2 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom, AT&T Navigator, AT&T Mobile Music, AT&T Video Share, HTML browser with Flash support and Bluetooth connectivity.



“Designed in the U.S., this socially charged smartphone comes in a sleek slide form factor that supports social networking and messaging – and all on an open platform”, said David Petts, the Vice President and General Manager of AT&T Account, Nokia. “Together with AT&T, we’re excited to address the increasing demand for smartphones with a device that’s attractive to the customer as it is to his or her wallet”.

"What You See Is What You Get" Concept



One thing is for sure about this concept phone...they could've named it shorter. Designed by Pei-Hua Hang, the phone's name comes from the fact that this concept no longer uses an LCD as viewfinder for the digital camera, instead it uses a transparent frame. And of course, interaction is made through a touchscreen.

TripleWatch



Though the idea of a cellphone watch is not so new, the TripleWatch designed by Manon Maneenawa has an interesting triple flip technique that allows the user to transform the watch into a normal cellphone. When used as a wrist watch, the phone has a speaker button that allows the user to answer the phone and hang up while driving.

Retroxis by Dark Label



If most phones presented here will never be sold in store for sure, Retroxis the phone from Dark Label looks kinda human, and makes us hope we'll be able to get one of these one day. Designed by Lim Sze Tat the phone is encased in high polished polycarbonate renowned for its lightweight and toughness and has an invisible OLED display that silently hides away when inactive.

Sleek & Slim




Sleek & Slim from SKY is another concept based on touchscreen technology. The phone has a discretely glowing touchpad, hideaway keys and generally utterly-fashionable minimalist design.

The Edge

The Edge concept phone by Chris Owens target the fashion-conscious, whereby the sliding keyboard is hidden right under the full touch screen display, summoned only when you need to type something. The entire keyboard is made out of glowing glass, so woe to you should you actually be part of the butterfingers group and drop this while it has not been fully retracted. As with most other cool gizmos these days, the Edge phone comes in glossy black that loves fingerprints and has a camera located behind

Nokia Shape-Shift

Nokia ShapeShift comes with a preset form made out of 2 plastic layers, that’ll replace the standard pixel-based screen. One of these layers is a flexible one, while the second is a hard material and between the two there’s some sort of special liquid. This will have the same refraction as the layers.

Moving the liquid around between the layers creates button shapes on the surface of the display, allowing the user to interact with the handset. The cellphone measures 11 x 5,5 x 1,2 cm and weighs 125 grams, while the display is a 4 inch unit.

Piccolo

Cell phone designers are trying to design models to attract the women users who need something different and fashionable. After working with feminine colors such as pink, now, it is the turn for the feminine curve to make its way into the cell phone world. Daniel Mota Veiga has designed this female figure inspired model for Motorola. The Piccolo Concept 1 is still in the concept stage and Motorola needs to work on this unique design to make it a reality. After all, it is for its own sake that Motorola must develop innovative models and this might be an instant hit among women and men struck by the feminine shape.

The Bamboo phone





The Bamboo phone is the newest innovation in biodegradable products. One the battery, antenna, and print board are taken off, the remains can then be placed in compos and they will begin to disintegrate in only a few weeks! That is not all… there are actually bamboo seeds within the case that, once release by the disintegrating case, will start to grow and feed on the case. The Bamboo phone literally becomes bamboo in a few months.

The Bamboo phone is made out of two materials: the bio-plastic made of materials such as corn, and the bamboo, an endlessly renewable resource. As bamboo is harvested, there is no need to replant. Each time a shoot of bamboo is cut, a new shoot grows in its place.

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S9110



The device was first seen as a prototype in Feb at the Mobile world congress 2009. The S9110 will sport a 1.76" scratch-resistant glass screen with 176x220 pixels of resolution, and stainless steel body for the watch; the cellphone features include bluetooth 2.1, Outlook email sync, MP3 player, speakerphone, and voice recognition, along with 40MB of internal memory, a 630mAh battery; and at the dimensions of 57.5x41.1x11.98mm, weighing a meagre 91g, this will be one of the most feature-packed wrist-watches to have hit the market.

Samsung SLIQ

leeky and shiny, the Samsung SLIQ concept phone is one hot device. It features an advanced touchscreen interface, which like the LG Prada phone and Apple iPhone eliminates the standard keypad. The SLIQ has also got an extra wide LCD screen, 2-megapixel camera (with Schneider-Kreuznach lens), a video player, and document view capability.

When the phone is not in use, its glowing icons on the face of the phone disappear for a shiny black look all-around. This powerful phone also features a multitude of multimedia features, including an MP3 player, music multitasking function, and extra memory storage. The SLIQ is also super thin, at just 10mm thick, and was designed Mike Serafin.

Sony Ericsson Kiki Concept

It’s highly possible that such a see-thru or transparent glass will be exist in the near future. In the concept description, Sony Ericsson Kiki transparent display will allow images to be projected on the both side of the cell phone. Probably what you will get is a 3D-like display with images floating in the center. And as you may have figured out, the keypad is invisible. The concept said that the keypad will be visible only when the phone is turned on. Pretty much like a touch screen keypad because it has a smooth surface.

Sony Ericsson - the Ryuga W903 concept

This concept Walkman phone features an OLED touchscreen display, a web feed reader, games, video playback and surely the famous Walkman player. Notice how the gorgeous interface emulates the design of the handset, that resembles the look of Mazda Ryuga

EOS-- By Kyocera



new EOS phone by Kyocera that brings an innovative new design style to the table and could inspire future handset makers in a myriad of ways. The unique design and the advanced features of this phone could make it the kind of thing that we’re likely to see a lot more of in the future assuming that the designers can work out some of the kinks associated with it. Although phones based on this original concept in the future will likely differ greatly from this one, the basic idea of the phone could definitely serve as a launching point for the handset designers of tomorrow. The three key features of note on this new phone are its flexible OLED display, its smart shape memory buttons and its use of kinetic energy power to self-charge.

Nokia E 97

Fabien Nauroy’s Nokia E97 concept shows incredible thought and a sleek phone. The concept has a full keyboard in “AZERTY” layout, with a small LCD screen above the keyboard. But the best part is the pull-out LED screen that can work as a storage device, and make file and picture sharing somewhat retro, and also futuristic.

Samsung Brix

The Samsung BRIX Concept Phone, a modular, full touchscreen multimedia mobile phone, is different from all other phones as it allows users

freedom and the option to enhance or improve their most important accessory, their mobile phone, via “brix” or brick modules.Say, you aren’t content with how big your screen is, then by all means, add a brick, if you want to other add-ons and brick expansions, go ahead and do it.

NAK pure black concept phone

In the realm of the most fascinating phones that is the concept phones, enters NAK pure black concept phone. The designer Antoine Brieux plans to carve the casing of this Bluetooth phone from recyclable metal aluminium in matte finish, hence going eco friendly with technology.

The phone would have a full AMOLED screen display of 4.1”, 8 Meg camera with 800 x 600 resolution having features of Xenon flash, auto focus and more, 1 GHz Qualcomm processor, 32 GB in-built memory plus micro SD card slot, GPS, WiFi, HDMI video port, Bluetooth stereo, and the camera would be able to record 720p HD video capture.

Satio - Sony Ericsson





Sony Ericsson's new concept phone : enigmatically named Satio
With the Idou, all your favourite stuff is just a touch away. Tap directly into TV series, videos, podcasts and music via the full-touch media menu.

With an OS based on Symbian, the Satio the cameraphone megapixel pissing match with an impressive 12 megapixel camera/Xenon flash combo.

Onyx Concept phone




Built around a high-resolution LCD screen and Synaptics’ ClearPad touchscreen technology, a transparent touch-sensitive capacitive sensor, Onyx can discriminate between one and two finger use and can even tell when it is being held against a cheek. This opens up whole new avenues of interface design: pop-up onscreen scrollwheels for volume and moving through contact and media lists, “flicking away” text messages to send them, dragging photos and files from screen to screen.

The Magic Stone




The Magic Stone concept phone is an abstract form of technology designed by Aleksandr Mukomelov. Available in any shape and colour of your choice, this phone is set to feature both a touchscreen and holographic display, internet access, multiple storage and games. It is possible to run the Magic Stone via solar power, or it can be wirelessly charged.

Handwoven By Samsung

• Compatible with Samsung Omnia i900/i908
• Available in 4 vivid colors: Crystal (Clear)/Midnight (Black)/ Raspberry (Purple)/Marine (Blue)
• Unique woven pattern
• Ultra clear and high glossy surface with our new improved Hydrcocarbon Polymer™ material
• Shock absorbable and anti-bump for ultra protection
• Easy access to all controls and ports
• Durable and tear-res

Sony Ericsson PXi Concept Phone

The Sony Ericsson Pxi is only a concept phone  for now, it was designed by Bence Bogar and unlike what happens with the majority of the phones, it has the left-handers in mind.

Besides the 3.3-inch touchscreen that can work with a normal stylus, or with your finger, there is also a similar function to the iPhone which adjusts the screen depending on the position that you are holding the device. On top of the main touchscreen, there is a secondary screen (touch pad as well) so you can have easy access to the applications being currently used.

Sony Ericsson PXI concept phone

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BYB Balance Cell Phone by Asus

The 45 x 73.5 x 10.25 mm concept combines the advantages of shell- and slider phones; when placed inside a pocket, the phones two inner touch-sensitive screens are protected, its storage therefore requiring no special attention.

Flipped over, however, the advantages of the slider can be fully made use of, while in desk stand mode, the phone can be used as a clock or a digital photo frame, without the aid of a separate stand.

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Nokia 888 Design

The Nokia 888 design is aimed to show case the activity prone life of youngsters thus it can adjust to the moment and function used. Technology used is that of liquid battery, speech recognition with flexible touch screen and touch sensitive body cover which lets the same understand and accordingly to the environment. It’s easy to carry as it can be bent and rolled and put into the cloth like a clip if not carry it around the wrist or as a usual phone. So this is one instrument that is form fitted for the youngsters.

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The Nokia N97

The Nokia N97 is a S60 5th Edition mobile computer with a large 3,5“, bright nHD (640 x 360 pixels and 16:9 aspect ratio) TFT color display with resistive touch screen and tactile feedback. The device provides excellent user experience for internet and entertainment by combining qwerty keyboard with touch UI and Home screen functionality. Use the N97 to connect to mobile broadband using WLAN or HSDPA (3.5G). Find directions and locations with the integrated A-GPS and included maps. Additional features include game titles with N-Gage, a 5 mega pixel camera with dual LED flash and automatic geotagging of images and videos.

Nokia has announced that the N97 touchscreen smartphone is available to U.S. customers in Nokia flagship stores in New York and Chicago and several online retailers. Nokia is offering the N97 for a commitment-free price of $699. In addition to the flagship stores, the N97 is available at nokiausa.com and through independent retailers.

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SONY ERICSSON W995


A Walkman phone, the W995 not only excels in playing music, but it also has a whopping 8.1-megapixel camera with autofocus and a flash.

This slider phone has a pair of stereo speakers at the top and - get this - even a swivel stand that lets you prop the phone up when watching movies on it.

HTC Hero

With HTC Hero, personalization reaches a level never before possible. Rather than burying important content under layers of menus, the HTC Hero lets you put it at glance view, with a selection of widgets that can be placed right on the home screen. The widgets themselves can be personalized with a variety of designs and sizes that best match your personality.

With Scenes, a new profile feature, HTC Hero becomes multiple phones in one. Create and switch between Scenes that reflect different moments in your life. Your Hero becomes a weekend phone that helps you relax with your choice of tunes, catch up with your favorite friends and capture some memories with HTC Footprints™. And when you go on a trip, your phone becomes your personal guide and gives you instant access to local time, weather and maps.

LG GC900 Viewty Smart

Sweet waistline and slick packaging, the Viewty Smart carries quite an impressive feature set including a 3" capacitive touchscreen, 8 megapixel autofocus camera with loads of options and the high-flying S-Class Touch UI. The Viewty is not smartphone kind of smart but the inspired interface and the sharp gadgety looks do give its name some credence.

Black Diamond

Black Diamond is a luxury phone that isn’t out on the market yet. It’s supposed to be launched early 2007 from a company called VIPN. On their site they promote a limited edition of the phone made out of titanium and with real diamonds - only $300 000. Crazy.

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Sony Ericsson CyberShot concept phone that looks simply breathtaking. As slim as a credit card with a 3.2 megapixel camera, sleek slider design, and OLED touch sensitive keypad, this is a phone that would sell by the bucket load one the concept turns to reality.

Nokia Aeon

The concept phone,dubbed Aeon, combines two touch-sensitive panels mounted on a fuel-cell power pack. The handset’s connectivity and electronics are built into the panels to allow them to be used independendently. When assembled, one panel would operate as the display, the other as the keypad. Since the buttons are entirely virtual, Aeon can flip instantly between a numeric pad for dialling, a text-entry pad for messaging, or a media-player controller.