Four new Pantech phone concepts to feed your geeky dreams
Pantech, South Korea’s third largest handset manufacturer, is doing well both in its home country and in the US, especially since it has recently announced two new phones for AT&T. But we’re not going to talk about AT&T’s phones right now, although I’m sure many of its subscribers would wish to have at least one [...]
E Ink concept makes the cellphone quite remarkable
Here at Unwired View, cellphone concepts come and go. But I think this idea for an E-ink phone by designer Anthony Reed will manage to stick. You see, this E-ink phone doesn’t look half as imaginative as many other concepts that we’ve covered here before, and yet when you think about it, something like it [...]
Nokia Aeon and iPod Nano 4G make love for a concept
If Nokia’s Aeon and a Nano made sweet love, this is what you’d get. Curved edges, slim profile, touchscreen technology, high-tech is written all over it! Designed by a certain Mac Funamizu, this particular phone concept features a dynamic screen that works with different technologies including tactile feedback on a touchscreen and e-ink. And aside [...]
Concept Nokia Touchscreen offers liquid-powered tactile feedback
Feeling lazy on a Sunday morning? Take a look at this Nokia touchscreen phone concept and see if it can get your gears going as it did mine. Though its design kind of resembles an oversized microSD card, make no mistake about it: it’s supposed to be a phone. A touchscreen phone at that, and [...]
Sony Ericsson’s GreenHeart concept phone in the wild
The concept of environment-friendly handsets isn’t new. And Sony Ericsson is actually coming in a little bit late to the party with its GreenHeart Concept, since at least two other handset makers (Nokia and Samsung) have announced their own versions of environment-friendly phones. But as with all good things, the GreenHeart concept deserves a second [...]
Sony Ericsson is working on GreenHeart phones
Sony Ericsson is not concerned only about how to offer unlimited music downloads to mobile users, but also on being green. Not literally, of course. The company has just announced it is working on a concept that someday will materialize into GreenHeart phones. A GreenHeart phone should have a bio-plastic housing, a keypad made out [...]
Nokia N-XT to Reinvent the Nseries
Nokia concept phones are nothing new and neither are unrealistic representations of devices that some of us would wish to exist. Nokia N-XT is yet another concept, but this one seems quite realistic. And, interestingly enough, it was created out of disappointment. Of what? you might ask. Well, the designer of N-XT, Chris from Symbian [...]
New Nokia concept phone by designer Ulisses Gardim
After much discussed new launches by Nokia, a new Nokia touchscreen concept phone by designer Ulisses Gardim may well divert your attention. Unlike other concept phones with rounded edge design, it’s a rectangular shaped phone with a combination of touch screen equipped with traditional numeric keypad by Nokia. From the look at images, its is [...]
T3′s 01 – cool concept, cool prank
The countdown has begun for a new smartphone that should soon kill off the iPhone, Nokia N96, Samsung Innov8 and any other new smartphone coming into a market. It’s called The 01 Phone, and it’s launching within a month. And if you don’t believe that it will be a stunner – just take a look [...]
Ply concept phone inspired from the design of multilayered plywood
Who will take inspiration from the plywood used to manufacture home furniture so as to come up with a unique mobile phone design idea? Someone in Japan did and as a result Hideo Kanbara is all set to rock the KDDI Designing Studio with their Ply concept phone. Each layer of this phone will be [...]
Maple phone concept might give geeks a hard-on
You are looking at what could quite possibly be the greenest cellphone concept ever thought up by a designer to date. It’s called the Maple phone, and is supposedly made out of thin wooden film that has backlighting and many touch-sensitive buttons. The Maple phone looks like an ordinary candybar at first glance, but of [...]
Get your Da Vinci on with the Cryptex phone concept
Want to try out a phone that takes its design cues from an idea by Leonardo Da Vinci? Check out this nameless cryptex mobile phone concept. It takes the shape of, well, a cryptex, and sure enough the numbers, as well as a few keys come as part of the rotating dials. You simply have [...]
Switchblade cellphone concept lets you look deadly, possibly shave
Here’s one more thing to add to your growing spy gadget collection. This little black slab of plastic, though it may only appear to hold the numbers 0-9 in front, as well as a rounded retro-styled earpiece is a cellphone, and it even has a screen to boot. The screen is hidden discreetly within the [...]
Eclipse Intuit Phone concept makes sun useful
Here’s an idea for a look of a possible iPhone killer. Or better yet, this concept could even be one for the a future iPhone itself, especially now that Apple is positively looking into alternative sources of energy for phones. The candy bar you see here is the Eclipse Intuit phone, designed to be a [...]
Retro clamshell phone concept designer thinks about our future
What happens when you get too old (or crazy) to use your now awesome touchscreen-toting, super-user-friendly, “includes everything but the kitchen sink cause it’s being repared” kind of phone? I’ll tell you what, you’ll try to call but you’ve forgotten how, you’ll get lost in the woods cause your eyesight is too blurred to see [...]
EGG mobile phone concept fit for a high-tech breakfast
We’ve seen a slew of funky handset concepts here at UV, ranging from transforming impossibilities to basic, doable forms that would just be too far ahead of its time. This time around, though, we’re taken back from the future to the kitchen table, with designer Roman Tubl’s Egg mobile phone concept. The Egg mobile phone [...]
Mobile concepts from Tancher design competition
I never get tired looking at a good mobile phone concepts. And there were quite a few really good ones recently both from inside mobile vendors and independent designers. And when some design house announces the competition for a communication device of the future, you know that something interesting is bound to come out from [...]
Nokia Morph phone concept
I guess that Greenpeace report, slamming Nokia for the sharp drop-off in environment friendly practices, is really bugging Nokia. Within a week of the report release we get Nokia Evolve 3110, a somewhat updated version of 3110 classic, with a “green” angle. Since then the leadership of green initiatives was taken up by Nokia research [...]
Edge fashion phone concept
It’s been a while since I posted any interesting mobile phone concepts here. Well today I have a treat for you. A concept fashion phone called Edge. It was design by Cris Owens an is dubbed as: “A cell phone that uses touch and light technology for a fashion oriented design” And here’s how it [...]
Nokia Eco Sensor Phone concept
Northern part part of Europe have been at the forefront pf sustainable/environment tech development for quite a while now. Now the “green” trend is moving into everyday electronics gadgets and Finnish Nokia wants to lead the way. At least with their marketing efforts. Last week it was their first “environment friendly” Nokia 3110 Evolve marketing [...]