Nokia 4G Concept Prototype Wraps Around Your Wrist, Is Flexible

14/01/2009 12:08 par slaytane

2 years before Nokia Morph was designed, there was another promising flexible concept phone that could be wrapped around your wrist. There’s also a pretty neat earpiece concept included in the design and once you unwrap the Nokia 4G Phone, you’ll see a beautiful and simplistic interface.
Touchscreen is once again at work and the user interacts with it thanks to a stylus. I suppose that Morph borrowed a couple of elements from this Nokia 4G prototype, even the color, if you’re really into details.

Open bracelet

01/01/2009 01:55 par slaytane

Remember the Nokia Open concept phone? It was a quite famous design of a handset that looked like a fan and now it turns out that it is accompanied by an accessory, Nokia Open Bracelet.

This “emotive” gadget is a fashion item, a bracelet adorned by silver elements that features a tiny circular display.

The small screen lets you know who’s calling, by interfacing with the handset via Bluetooth and displaying a color-coded message. Hot colors mean that a friend/someone from your family is calling, while cold ones mean that strangers of business partners want to talk to you.

Nokia Open Bracelet’s display can also be used as a watch, or as a screen that reproduces images.

Nokia Aeon Gets Resurrected Through the Ripple Concept

23/12/2008 14:22 par slaytane

We never thought we’d seen something similar to Nokia Aeon again, although there were a few Chinese handsets that resembled that beauty. Now, Jeffrey Gerlach designed the Ripple Phone, which practically revives the Aeon concept, as it sports a dual multi-touch OLED screen and a very slim profile.

Ripple also features an alpha-numeric keypad, a mini USB port for charging and data transfer, a 5 megapixel camera and integrated hand grip. Aside from the numeric keypad, there’s also the onscreen virtual QWERTY one, divided into 2 segments, but still easy to use.

Also, I’ve got to admit that the photo menu looks quite hot and overall the device is very promising.

Nokia 8800 Gold Arte

22/12/2008 17:50 par slaytane

The latest piece of art in the Arte lineup appeared at Nokia website without a proper introduction from the manufacturer. The new Nokia 8800 Gold Arte follows on the Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte but adds quite some luxury and tackiness to the package. The functionality remains identical, but you know - when it comes to Arte, plain technical capabilities just don't tell the whole story.

The main selling point of the new Nokia 8800 Gold Arte is the 18-carat gold plating and the high quality white genuine leather.

The Nokia 8800 Gold Arte has no other secrets as everything else is inherited by the 8800 Carbon Arte. And like it, the Gold Arte packs a 2" QVGA OLED display with 16 M colors, 4GB on board memory (non-upgradable as there`s no memory card slot) and 3.2-megapixel autofocus snapper.

The accelerometer-based features such as tap-for-time and turn-to-mute are also available as before.

Price tag and availability are still unknown however we`ll keep you posted when more info surfaces.

Nokia Gaming Device for The Elderly, Older Than the PSP

12/12/2008 17:10 par slaytane

This project had designer Amber Chamberlain as a member and it turns out that his group assignment was mentioning a modern gaming device, even before the PSP surfaced, since the concept dates from 2003. Imagine a cellular wireless product meant for the elderly… Imagine that it keeps them in touch via simplistic games, it keeps scores, game conditions and other data, no matter where the players are located.
We’re talking 50 plus demographics… What type of games would these people play? Something tells me that this idea would appeal to the younger public as well. What do you say?

nokia n97

04/12/2008 01:11 par slaytane

nokia 9900

30/11/2008 00:00 par slaytane

Forget about the Nokia Tube, as that’s a mere cry baby, compared to the sexy concept below. The Nokia 9900 aims to deliver what the Finnish manufacturer has been trying to create for the past year, a perfect rival for the iPhone. However, we get more than we imagined: a pen phone with uber-features.
This pen phone comes with a stretchable touch panel, which will pretty much be your display and it’ll also be used as a viewfinder for the handset’s camera. The pen functions are all there, so you can write or draw any time you want, while the button on top of the device is used to control the phone.

I see “Microsoft” mentioned on the pics of the device, so there’s bound to be some Windows Mobile action under that cover. Also, the Nokia 9900 seems bundled with a hot headset, but the details are so scarce that we’ll have to be satisfied with assumptions, for now.

Update:  There’s no Windows Mobile action yet, but the concept draws its inspiration from Microsoft Surface, as translated by one of our readers. (Thanks Andy Fang)

nokia bmw concept

29/11/2008 23:58 par slaytane

Don’t expect a Nokia BMW phone to land in the shops too soon, as it usually takes some time for two tech giants to cooperate, specially after the Bochum scandal, that left many German workers jobless.

As for the beautiful design you can check out below, it pertains to Evgen Designer and it features GPS navigation and a powerful camera.

The Nokia BMW comes with an interesting “push to open” mechanism that makes its display rotate 90 degrees turning the whole device into a handycam. Notice the original camera placement? Sony would probably love to invent something like this…

Nokia Tube Prototype

29/11/2008 23:44 par slaytane

We’re familiar with the Provoke Design name, since we last saw their brilliant interface showing us the true power of touchscreen displays. Now we’ve spotted a prototype image of theirs showing a pretty neat touchscreen device. Provoke is known to work closely with Nokia, so with a bit of speculation this phone might turn out to be the Nokia Tube.

Pass me that huge grain of salt, will you?

nokia e52

29/11/2008 23:42 par slaytane

Strangely enough this phone is considered by most people a real handset, upon checking it out, instead of the concept it is. Truth be told it’s a great concept design and it almost managed to convince me that it’s E51’s successor. However, there’s something fishy about this pic and it might just be the best Photoshopped concept phone ever.
Imagine a combination between E50, E51 and E65 with a … Cingular branding? Too bad that Cingular is now AT&T so there are only two options left, either it’s an old concept phone or a slider version of E50, that Nokia forgot to release on the market. Don’t get your hopes up, though.