Prototypes
New Pantech Concept Phones show Pantech’s vision of the future
Posted on 11/09/2006
Pantech, one of Korea's mobile phone companies that also ships its phones overseas, has revealed a few concept phones that show how its future phones might look.
Interestingly, the Korean mobile phone...
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Samsung 1Gbps 4G mobiles available in 2008
Posted on 04/09/2006
Samsung are on a roll at the moment, releasing new phones by the bucket-load, and showing off world-leading mobile phone technologies at the same time. After announcing they were demonstrating their...
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Google Vision mobile phone concept
Posted on 24/07/2006
Now here's an idea that's certain to be reality in just a few short years. Called Google Vision, it's a concept developed BY UK designer Callum Peden. Google Vision features a handset-type device that...
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Mobile phone-controlled washing machine
Posted on 20/07/2006
Whirlpool are testing a new smart washing machine that you can control using your mobile phone. Part of an innovative combination of home network, mobile phone, PC and other communication technologies,...
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HP creates grain-sized chip with wireless transfer
Posted on 17/07/2006Hewlett Packard have created a new chip that's the same size as a grain of rice, yet which is capable of wirelessly transferring data at 10Mbps. Even more amazing, the new Memory Spot chip, as HP have...
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AquaFairy water-powered mobile phones coming to NTT DoCoMo
Posted on 17/07/2006
Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo has hooked up with gloriously-named AquaFairy to develop a micro fuel-cell to recharge its new 3G FOMA handsets. AquaFairy's fuel cells use only water to release power,...
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Sony Ericsson ‘flip phone’ patent shows new mobile phone design
Posted on 08/07/2006
Sony Ericsson have filed a patent that shows a new form design for mobile phone handsets. The new design shows a clamshell model with the screen part free to swivel within its outer frame.
Whereas...
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Nokia ‘Open’ 4G prototype phone
Posted on 20/06/2006
Nokia have recently run a competition to find the best designed 4G phone, and this, the "Nokia Open", is the winner. Designed by Hugo Danti, the Nokia Open opens like a fan, and incorporates a scrollable...
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Prototype Polygon phone offers DS-like dual screen interface
Posted on 01/06/2006
Design studio Alloy have developed a prototype mobile phone called the Polygon, which features a dual-screen display similar to the Nintendo DS.
According to Alloy:
"The resulting concept Polygon has...
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Electrowetting sharpens up mobile phone displays
Posted on 24/05/2006
Mobile phone displays are set to get much, much sharper.
So sharp, in fact, they'll be able to be used under the same conditions in which people currently use paper, ranging from very dimly-lit rooms...
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