Prototypes

Bend Mobile - a concept phone only its father could love

Posted on 10/08/2008

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...
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New Pantech concept phones for 2010

Posted on 28/03/2008

Concept phones are great. They're not intended to be full production models, but rather give a sense of what can be achieved when designers are freed from the constraints that commercial mobile phones...
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Nanotech Nokia Morph, your new flexible friend

Posted on 26/02/2008

Nokia have been showing off the Nokia Morph, their latest concept phone, at the Museum of Modern Art (not entirely sure how a product that will be built in the future can be placed in a museum, but that's...
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NVIDIA concept phone wows the mobile world with 720p HD video

Posted on 14/02/2008

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...
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CES 2008: iRiver shows off a prototype GPS phone

Posted on 10/01/2008

Everyone and his dog seems to be showing off GPS phones at CES this year. Now iRiver has jumped on the bandwagon by showing off a prototype of a new iRiver GPS phone that they expect to release by the...
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CES 2008: World’s fastest GPS phone on show

Posted on 09/01/2008

It wasn't just the big 5 mobile phone makers who were showing off their wares at CES this year. Completely unheard of Much smaller companies were also showing off their technology. Companies such as...
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DoCoMo Wellness phone measures lardiness and bad breath

Posted on 03/10/2007

DoCoMo's new health-inspired phone aims to turn you into a physically perfect specimen, but at the expense of your somewhat fragile ego. Firstly, the DoCoMo Wellness phone offers the usual health- and...
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Japanese concept phone goes into production

Posted on 27/09/2007

Japanese mobile phone company AU KDDI is renowned for releasing concept phones that eventually make it into production. However, when the company unveiled its latest concept, the InfoBar2, back in November...
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Video of Sony Ericsson Z700 - the phone you’ll never own

Posted on 31/07/2007

Here's an interesting video from Mateusz Kurowski of what could be the world's most collectible mobile phone (for those of you into such things). It's the Sony Ericsson Z700 in prototype form. Why is...
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Concept pictures of Google Phone

Posted on 26/04/2007

The Google phone is just a rumour at the moment (and will probably never be an actual phone anyway), but that hasn't stopped Chinese photoshop guru Dogor from coming up with these glorious images of what...
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