Posts filed under Prototypes

We reported yesterday on new projector technology from Iljin Technology that would enable your mobile phone’s screen to be projected onto a wall. Now Samsung, it seems, have gone one better. They’ve just received a patent for a Virtual Display, which projects the screen onto a surface and lets you interact with it using an electronic pen.

Found a new product in a shop that you want to find more info about? If Microsoft’s new research bears fruit, simply take a picture of it with your cameraphone, submit it to Microsoft’s search engine, and all the details you could possibly want will be sent to your mobile phone. Microsoft’s new technology runs pattern matching algorithms on the image you send it to recognize the product. Once recognized, it runs a standard search on MSN, and sends back a list of results on that product.

Fujitsu have shown off two new concept phones featuring a novel four-way slider design called, appropriately (if unimaginatively), the “Multi Slider”. The new concept features a keypad that slides out from underneath the mobile phone in all four directions, revealing a different set of keys each time. Just when you thought every sliding variant had been tried in mobile phone land, it seems Fujitsu decided they could go one better!

Pictures of new Nokia fourth generation mobiles have surfaced from design studio Ideosyncrasy. The theme behind Nokia’s prototypes is to have “…a different means of accessing and managing information through different peripherals…” Different is certainly the right term – these concept phones are as far removed from current mobile phones as you can get.

More pictures of Nokia’s new 4G concept prototypes after the jump.

[Source: Ideosyncrasy via YankoDesign]

This is Sony Ericsson’s Black Diamond, a prototype concept phone by designer Jaren Goh. Not only does it look stunning, it’s designed to come fully loaded with cutting edge edge technologies and materials. Polycarbonate skin, mirror finished cladding, OLED screen providing a ‘borderless screen’ effect and 4 megapixel camera. All theoretical, of course, as it’s just a concept mock-up, but what a stunning design!

We’ve seen Pantech’s and BenQ-Siemens’ concept phones recently, but you make me a phone like this, Sony Ericsson, and we will buy!

More pictures of Sony Ericsson’s Black Diamond concept phone after the jump.

[Source: Jaren Goh]

Pantech have released pictures of seven new prototype concept phones that show where the company’s mobile phone design is heading. Pantech aren’t that well known outside their native Korea yet, but they’re planning on making a big push this year into overseas territories. Better still, the company makes some technologically-superb mobile phones, featuring such wonders as 5+ megapixel cameraphones, mobile TV, and wacky Optimus Prime-like transformer phones.

See pictures of the new Pantech Prototype Concept Phones after the jump. There’s even a new Galvatron phone!

[Source: SlashPhone]

NTT DoCoMo have announced that a prototype phone has achieved data transfer speeds of 2.5Gbps whilst travelling at 20kph. This is insane! 3G never offered the data rates we were led to believe (which was OK, ‘cos we didn’t really believe them!). Recently, HSDPA, or ‘Super3G’ technology has been making news with data transfer speeds of 3.6Mbps (and a theoretical maximum of 14.4Mbps). But this new 4G technology from DoCoMo simply brings tears to the eyes!

Back in 1998, I worked on a European telecoms project that tried to marry ATM with GSM (or a 622Mbps channel to a 9.6kbps channel!). Transferring data over mobile back then was like trying to pump out a lake with a straw. But 2.5Gbps!! This changes everything! Suddenly, mobile servers and true global ubiquitous mobile P2P networks seem a very real possibility.

Read how NTT DoCoMo achieved 2.5Gbps after the jump.

[Source: Slashphone]