If you are still lugging around a brick, have yet to get hands-on with a touch-screen or wonder whether the iPhone really is the beast of burden for design moguls worldwide, strap yourself in and grab some popcorn as we count down the top 15 jaw-dropping concept phones in the world.
15. If like me your life is chock full of petty intrigues you could do worse than the covert sleekness of the Triple Watch cellphone. With its triple flick technique this watch by day turns into an international phone of mystery by night. Design by Manon Maneenawa.
14. Designed by Pei-Hua Hang brings you the aptly titled What You See is What You Get touchscreen phone, drawing attention to the most obvious of improvements - replacing a viewfinder with a transparent panel. What’s not to love?
13 & 12. Produced by Hungarian design company Egy Studio the funky as it wants to be QWERTY-keyboard toting Asus Aura is must have vaporware. What’s not to love?The Sky “Sleak n Slim” is a high watermark in discrete functionality and breathtaking minimalist design.
11 . Nokia’s strikingly futuristic 888 Communicator uses liquid batteries has flexible touchscreen and touch-sensitive body cover. This won the Nokia design award for Tamer Nakisci
10 & 9. If you don’t mind looking slightly insane, then you could do worse then this Bracelet Phone with Built-in MP3 Player. The wearer is alerted to calls by vibrations and from there you convert the bracelet off your wrist and get talking. For all lovers of speaking to inanimate objects and stop press: also great for when you want to draw curious looks to the music emanating from your jewelry with the built-in MP3 player blasting.Looking something like an accountants Rubik’s Cube the CUin5 mobile phone is an inspired piece of nightmarish fancy. Every face of the phone carries a keypad, microphone, and speaker. The part you touch first gets active while all other edges are in lock mode. Great. Now if I could just work out how to open it.
8 & 7. If you have ever sat staring at your phone with an accusing eye willing it to be more snake-like BenQSiemens understands your pain. Their Snake phone can wrap around your wrist and just about anything else. It cannot however ingest rodents. Baby steps people.Slick, retro and with an imperceptible OLED display that silently hides away when inactive the clean and stylish Dark Label Retroxis Phone is one for the fashionistas.
6 & 5. Perhaps a fading memory now, the Onyx Concept Phone was the first keyless touchscreen mobile phone utilizing Synaptics Clearpad transparent touch-sensitive capacitive sensor. Show some respect heathens.If you like walking around with a phone who’s whole name connotes impending doom why not choose the Black Box Concept Phone. The head-turning changes its control layout according to the functions you use so you can be paranoid and efficient.
4. The NEC Tag concept phone can be worn as a wristband, a belt or any other number of questionable locations. The flexible materials used allows the owner to adjust the phone to their lifestyle and not the other way around.
3. With a full surface touchscreen display the Nokia Aeon concept is indeed cool and tempting but the Finnish manufacturer are keeping tight-lipped about details on the phone.
2. We may never know if this Sony Ericsson Concept Phone is actually in works, with a proposed feature list including OLED display, a 3.2-megapixel camera, 2GB of storage, and an integrated FM tuner, the ultra-thin phone would be a welcome addition to our lust list.
1. The Nokia Archive Concept Phone allows virtual teamwork through smart wireless conferencing and remote presentations with strong and clear Bluetooth communication.
What do you think? Should the Tattoo phone and the Nokia Morph have made the 15? Are there notable exceptions which we have neglected? Let us know what you think.
