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Research Center Cambridge Showcases Stretchable Electronic Skin Technology (Video)
20/02/2011 19:45
While Nokia fails to deliver hot smartphones, at least they’re evolving on the prototype and concept side. What you see below is a stretchable electronic skin, a technology developed by Nokia Research Center Cambridge. This flexible piece of bioelectronics is the basis for the future foldable devices, like watches or phones.
Compliant and stretchable materials will make theoretically unbreakable devices and it’ll also provide new means of interaction. More info can be found in the following video and in case you’re not familiar with the Nokia Morph concept phone, go check it out and see how this technology can be put to good use:
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U Concept: The Public Has Chosen the “Design by Community” Smartphone Design
20/02/2011 19:42
Remember the Nokia initiative entitled “Design by Community” that involved the public’s selection of specs and design features for a future Nokia smartphone? Well, it came down to these three sketches last time we heard about it and the finalized result of the challenge is the Nokia U device, pictured below.
This Nokia concept phone is the result of over 18,000 votes that chose a sketch of the phone in order for the handset maker’s design team to turn into a render. This is the render we’ve been waiting for, complete with the specs listed below:
Display: 4 inch, capacitive. 16:9
Size/shape: monoblock, 60 x 110 x 6-10mm
OS: Open source OS with unlimited multitasking, based on touch input
Connectivity: WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, USB 3.0, HDMI
Camera: 8 megapixel, 4X optical zoom, dual LED and Xenon Flash, HD video capture
Materials: aluminium, soft touch finish
Others: multiple OS, surround sound speakers, Flash memory, kinetic energy power
More details concerning the project can be found on Nokia’s official site.
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Legend 2 is a Big “Entertainer”
20/02/2011 19:36
The creator of the HTC Legend 2 concept claims that this device is a “big entertainer”, meaning that it’s a great multimedia playing device. Its specifications are pretty impressive, too: dual core 800 MHz CPU and an 8 megapixel camera. This is actually better than some phones shown at Mobile World Congress 2011 recently.
How much time do you suppose it will take to make dual core a feature for low end phones? Two years? Three?
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Dual OS Concept is Actually Real
20/02/2011 19:26
While the design of this HTC phone is a concept, it is actually possible to have a smartphone with a dual OS. For example, if you own a HTC HD2, you can already run WP7 on it (it was ported) and Android on an SD card. Back to the device below, this phone was created by Michal Bonikowski & Rafal Pilat.
Let’s just hope that the speakers on the handset are better than those of HTC HD7, that went seriously wrong. As far as the specs of the concept are concerned, we can only speculate, so here they are: 4 inch display, 8/16GB of internal memory, 512MB/1GB RAM and a 1GHz CPU.
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Forest, New Android Phone Design
20/02/2011 19:24
Long-Nong Huang is at it again, creating the HTC Forest, a 4.1 inch SLCD display phone that uses a 1.2GHz CPU. The device runs a flavor of Android and seems to use an aluminum unibody case, plus a couple of capacitive touch buttons under the screen. Other than that the design language reminds us a bit of the Thunderbolt model, only less wide and with an extra trackball.
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