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Researchers at Nokia Research Center unveiled the ‘Mobile Radar’ during “Demo House 2010″. Using the same technology adopted by the police to give you a ticket for speeding, the device could measure an object’s distance, speed and direction. Therefore, you can control your cellphone via simple gestures without touching it. For example, you only need to wave your hands in front of your phone if you want to adjust its music player’s volume. Check out the video below to see how the ‘Mobile Radar’ is used. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Visual Sound is an innovative mobile phone especially designed for the impaired person. Allowing the deaf folks to communicate with others, the device could convert voice input to text and show it on the touch screen display. Moreover, Visual Sound also converts text input to voice so that the person on the other end of the phone could be well informed. The phone comprises three parts, including two handy pillars on both sides and a roll-out display. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It is good to preview what the world would be like 10 or 20 years later, and all that is founded on the development of technology. But imaginations go faster, and the Pen Concept Mobile Phone here just gives us a chance to know what our cellular phones look like in the future.

It is comprised of three pens that act as the keyboard of the handset and a stretchable touch panel (which works as a display) hidden between two pens. Although one of the three pens could be used independently to write on the display, almost everything is based on voice control.

We’re not sure when it is available, but if you’ve been looking for a similar phone like this, then the Pen Concept Mobile Phone is rightly the one for you. Leave your comments below if you think it is a cool-looking cellular phones. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The conceptual cellphone from Nokia is achieved by a young Chinese designer, Daizi Zheng. Different from usual mobiles powered by lithium battery, the eco-friendly phone adopts bio battery (which generates electricity from carbohydrates) as the power source. Therefore you only need to buy a can of cola to power your phone when the battery dies out, and claimed by Daizi Zheng, “Bio battery has the potential to operate three to four times longer on a single charge than conventional lithium batteries”. So it would be nice to see this practical concept hit the marketplace soon. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Do you also have a dream that you could easily deposit checks in your cell phones? Well, the ATM supplier NCR Co. and the Mitek Systems Co. which majoring in moving-images have cooperated to make it come true. As long as you have a cell phone camera of two-million pixels, it’s rather convenient to deposit your checks into certain accounts by taking photos of them.

Do you still remember the Bear Phone? Similarly, this V588 mobile phone is also specifically designed for girls. Its design inspiration derives from the foundation box, and a 2.6-inch screen is equipped in the place originally for the puff. Besides the basic communication function, it can also play MP3\MP4 files, which is equipped with a speaker, a Bluetooth and a video-recording camera as well. Meantime, the diamond-studded surface of the foundation box may make it possible to win more affection from the female. However, why does it look more like a copycat?

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This is a new design from RIM, the BlackBerry manufacture. They Qwerty keyboard is hidden under two wings. When not in use, you can just use a normal keypad. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Wind chime and cellphone seems to be unrelated to each other. NO! This chine is definitely related to your cellphone. It will tell you with the charm ringtone every time you have a call.

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iPhone is very popular, but the text imputing is really horrible. Maybe a sliding Qwerty keyboard is a good solution, but Fujitsu and NTT DoCoMo have developed a new model which comes with two separated magnetic touch screen. One screen keyboard and the other one is display, you can assemble them depending on your demanding. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Apparently a cute bear like this a toy for kids and girl. However, this is actually a bear phone. But it is not a simple cellphone stuffed into a toy bear. Each paw of the bear can make a speed dial when you squeeze it.

Girls will like it. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This phone is pretty innovative. It comes with a pair of separated speakerphone and microphone and so you can attach them onto your fingers to call your friends. Also, it’s touch screen can remember the path fingers when you are typing the keypad so you can remember the contact by with different path patterns. [Read the rest of this entry...]

With many built-in hi-tech functions, this conceptual phone may indicate a new trend of portable device. Except for such conventional functions as mobile phone, photo/video camera, multimedia player, this phone also provides 3D scanning and even holographic projector.

In order to make it easy to use these functions without much change to navigation or form, it features two independent swiveling and flipping displays. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This Mooon+ touchscreen phone features a built-in handset which could be attached on the phone as the microphone when not in use. [Read the rest of this entry...]

With the unique gesture controlling technique, you could mute an incoming call or snooze the alarm by moving your hand over the phone. Next time, you could end a phone like a magician. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Shaped in cylinder, this cellphone could be powered by a single AA battery. In order to last longer with the limited juice, this cellpohone has no 3G, no amera, no MP3 player, no SMS and even no LCD screen. But, it could provide 5 hours of talki time and 250 hours on standby. [Read the rest of this entry...]