Posts filed under prototype phone

Where would we be without leaked pictures?! This time, we have some leaked pics from none other than Nokia themselves, seemingly showing a new touchscreen user interface for an as yet unnamed mobile phone. The pictures come from a slide presented at Nokia’s Capital Markets Day 2008, so as it comes from the company itself, the pic itself is genuine. Quite whether the phone it depicts is real or just a Photoshop teaser is another matter, though.

If nothing else, though, it shows the direction Nokia are working towards. Full touchscreen phone, context and presence, integrated services, multiple homescreens. Seems that direction has “iPhone” written on it in super-huge letters!

[Source: Engadget]

Leaked pictures have emerged of a new camera phone from Samsung. Currently called the Samsung Memoir, the new phone will feature an 8 megapixel camera, Omnia-style touchscreen, and the TouchWiz user interface found in the Omnia and the Samsung Tocco.

Other details are scarce, unfortunately, but apparently it’s destined for the US, among other places, although on T-Mobile – sorry about that!

[Source: TMONews, via Engadget]

If there’s one thing I love about concept phones, it’s the fact that they’re completely unconstrained by the laws of economics, business, marketing, or even in some cases, the laws of physics!

A concept phone is just that – a concept, showing what could be done if the phone were left solely to a designer without a care for whether or not it could actually be built, much less whether it could be built for a reasonable price.

Mind you, although some are undoubtedly stunning pieces of design, not all of them are what you might call attractive. You can see what I mean after the jump…

Mention the words ‘NVIDIA’ and ‘concept phone’ in the same sentence, and you’ll always cause a stir, and as these video clips show below, with just cause. These are clips taken of NVIDIA’s concept phone on display at MWC 2008. The phone itself is just a mock-up – like Google Android phones on display at MWC 2008, it’s not the phone’s form that’s the main attraction, it’s the user interface and the mobile CPU powering it.

And good gods, what a user interface! NVIDIA are world famous for their stunning GPUs and graphics abilities, but this mobile UI looks liike something straight out of Minority Report!