Hats, sunglasses, bags, clutches, shoes and now mobile phones, fashion label Christian Dior sure knows how dress up women from head, hand to toes! Designed with Modelabs, My Dior is a clamshell that features a 2.6 touch screen with a resolution QVGA, APN on a 2 Megapixels and is encrusted with 640 stones of 3251 [...]
Hop-On has taken a different approach to the entry-level market and introduced its HOP1800, quite possibly one of the most bare bones and affordable handsets on the market. This candybar handset does not have a display, but does offer a regular numeric keypad. Retailing for US$10 without a contract, the HOP1800 was designed from the [...]
Candy bars, flips, b ricks, diamonds – phones come in a myriad of monikers but a common denominator are their form factors. For the most part they’re designed to be pocketable. You can throw all those expectations out the window because designer Tamer Koseli wants no part of it. His Super Phone is probably [...]
Mobiado announces the Professional 105 ZAF, a shimmering; metallic-looking handset that is touted to be the thinnest luxury phone in the world. It is only 10.6 mm thin, nearest competitor Vertu Ascent is only 22 mm. Brimming in luxury, the phone is constructed out of chunks of sapphire crystals (front to back) and has a [...]
If you want to see the future of Nokia handset design then you have to go to the source. Finnish-based Provoke Design is one of Nokia’s main design contractors. As such, take a close look at the three concepts it’s showing off in New York at the HARDCORE New Finish Design exhibition starting May 17th. [...]
Do you think the current cell phone form factors will change in the future? This is a really open-ended question, but being the constantly innovating beings that we are, chances are the answer will be in the affirmative. You will require to use a natural gesture with this literal hand phone (as some circles [...]
Chanel is jumping onto the fashionable cell phone bandwagon with this concept dreamed up by Fred de Garihe. It is specially designed to function with an optical fiber system, and has enough looks to melt my heart (and bank account, assuming it ever rolls out of the factory from being a concept at this point [...]
Remember how Dick Tracy used his watch as a communicator? Considering the last incarnation of Dick Tracy came out in 1990, I’m not surprised if you don’t. Let’s try this one: Remember when Michael Knight used his watch to talk to KITT? I’m sure anyone eighteen years of age or younger has no idea what [...]
US-based gadget maker Hop-on has revealed that its low end GSM cell phone with no LCD screen has received orders from an as yet unidentified European distributor for an initial test purchase order of 10,000 phones. Peter Michaels, president of Hop-on said, "Response to our simple, inexpensive, $20 phone was phenomenal. The initial test purchase [...]
If you are into multifunctional gadgets then this hi watch phone may catch your fancy, the Cool G108 features an electroluminescent keypad and a flip-up screen. Supporting quad-band GSM / GPRS, it also includes a 1.5-inch (160 x 128) internal display, 1.3-megapixel camera, multimedia player, Bluetooth, 0.5MB built-in memory and a MMS expansion slot. USB [...]
