KDDI au seems to spend a lot of time on developing concept handsets, but that's fine by us. Especially when they're as cool looking as the Ply.   The "Ply" concept model is apparently inspired by plywood in that it has multiple layers for the phone's different functions. It also has a touchscreen that fills the entire device. These functions are ... continued »

While most concept products are all show without real intent of retail distribution, we still love and have thirst for them because of its uniqueness. Marc Schomann brings out a unique perspective with his concept phone design that uses haptic technology giving the phone user a real physical feedback when making calls. continued »

Rune Larsen has designed a cool new concept phone call the Shape Shifter. With the concept of changing shapes and its sleek designed this phone will definitely catch the eye of any gadget lover. The Shape Shifter will have 2 layers of plastic, one will be flexible and the other will be a hard layer with special liquid inside it.  The ... continued »

Regardless of how crazy someone might look when waving their hands around in front of their phone, this idea seems like a winner. Samsung has just patented a system, in which a phone get information from the user based on hand gestures that the user makes. As you can see in the diagram, there are quite a few gestures that ... continued »

It seems like ages since we've had a concept phone on these pages, so lets muster up some congratulations for Ukraine designer Shkinder Maxim who has just won third place in the Tancher Electronic Design competition with his twisty, projector-toting 'Transformer' handset.  Consisting of three main sections that pivot 360 degrees around a central pivot, Maxim envisages the Transformer as ... continued »

Subscribing to the "short and dumpy" school of design, Lysandre Follet's Motorola concept is notable for its so-called stereo camera which presumably captures 3D images (or particularly wide-aspect panoramas, perhaps).  Borrowing the big M's design language, the handset resembles a Q smartphone crossed with Samsung's P310, dropping the former's QWERTY thumbboard in favour of some chunky numerics.   continued »

People lease cars, TVs and furniture - why shouldn't they lease something that gets replaced even more often than those, their cellphone?  That's the concept behind development consultancy Kaleidoscope's LINC cellphone: a handset that not only takes into account the fact that people want to upgrade every 12 months, but makes a feature of its recyclability.  Users pay for the cellphone service ... continued »

Another week, another cellphone concept made of ecozeitgeist material of the moment bamboo; Gert-Jan van Breugel's concept goes one step further, however, not only being made of the grass but containing its seeds as well.  That means, once it's been buried at the end of its lifespan, new bamboo can be grown.  The plant in fact feeds off the rest ... continued »

Concept phones are great, but they're particularly interesting when the designer has obviously put a lot of effort into explaining how all the aspects of it would work.  It turns what can often be a flight of fancy into something that really makes you think about the construction and interfaces of the devices we choose to carry.  Qian Jiang's Softphone ... continued »

Nokia's design monkeys have been let loose again, this time freed from the shackles of the eco-kindly and instead allowed to play with boffins at the UK's Cambridge Nanoscience Centre. They've come up with Morph, a vision of the future (the future of mobile devices, that is, sadly not a flying car) which of course involves making calls and ... continued »