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Awesome Telephone Booths

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We see telephone booths everywhere but they do not all come with an interesting or creative appearance as these shown here do. Mixed up with various popular elements like Hello Kitty, Twitter and aquariums, each phone booth is now radiating new vitality and adding new beauty to the prosperous cities. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Big Tongue Phone

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If you’re ever a fan of Rolling Stone you’ll soon figure out where the new Big Tongue Phone gets its inspiration. And the answer is actually Rolling Stone’s big tongue logo drawn by John Pasche in 1970, which appeared for the first time on the album of “Sticky Fingers” in 1971. Although it’s nearly 30 years since the first time the Big Tongue was made to the public, it’s still fantastic to see this famous logo again. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Icon Phone

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Icon Phone designed by Elium Studio is a cordless phone & Internet radio. It comes with quite a simple shape to demonstrate a brief beauty, but combines several functions in one, including Wireless DECT VoIP, Hands-free facility, HiFi ringtones, SMS text messaging, HD Sound, Stereo speakers, Portable radio, Huge choice of Internet radio stations, Colour screen, etc. To sum up, the Icon Phone is a simple device with full functions. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Visual Sound Mobile Phone

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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...]

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Pen Concept Mobile Phone

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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...]

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Eco-friendly Cellphone powered by sugary drinks

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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...]

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What is your phone doing on the window glass?

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Are you looking for something different and personalized? Having a look at the ‘Solar Powered Sticker Phone’ presented here on I New Idea? Wow, you’re now different, huh? For phone users who are seeking for an eco-friendly product, the arch-shaped phone may be a perfect choice. No longer needing electric outlets, just stick the phone onto the window glass and then it will get charged in the sunshine. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Mechanical Mobile

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Those who love mobile games surely know the problem in supporting them, yes, you have to charge the phone from time to time and that really bothers you a lot. Mikhail Stawsky’s ‘Mikhail Stawsky’ here seems to be an ideal solution to that problem. No longer need an extra charger; you can just spin the phone around your finger to charge it. Well, I wish this were not merely a conceptual product. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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A Green Phone from Nokia

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Well-known for a sustainable use, Nokia has been widely popular all over the world. And the new product, a green phone that features a recyclable use, would make you love Nokia much more. Every part of the new phone is made from recycled Aluminum; A capacitive sensor is built onto the keyboard to simplify the phone; Electronic ink is adopted to display words so as to save more energy. In addition, the phone also uses silver-zinc batteries rather than the regular lithium batteries, to reduce electronic wastes. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Phone Fingers

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Well, frankly speaking, the Phone Finger is really unnecessary and maybe a bit stupid…You may even associate it with something you wouldn’t want your mom to find in your pockets! But if you’re someone who seriously cares about all the belongings, you may find the Phone Fingers quite useful to protect your iPhone from finger prints and smudges.

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Wake-Up Phone

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Well… is Wake-Up Phone a phone that awakes me in the morning?! Come on, each phone now has emerged as a functional alarm clock! So what’s the peculiarity of this phone? Actually, it features a tilted display to give you a good view of the time as those traditional alarm clocks do. The Wake-Up Phone also comes integrated with a camera and a radio, which are controlled by the shortcut buttons.

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What’s this?

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Look, what’s this?

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Bath-Phone

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Have you ever missed any important calls when taking a bath? Certainly we may break off to answer them, but that’s no way to make a lasting improvement. And presenting here is a water-proof phone that allows the users to take calls without leaving the bathtub. Based on the Bluetooth technology, Bath-Phone can connect with your cell-phone and therefore lets you to have a conversation while enjoying a bath.

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OC iPhone Dock

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What could be more annoying than the cellphone ringing during the work? The sudden noise frightenes you a lot!  So the OC iPhone dock will be a better choice, alerting you quietly whenever there’s a call or a message. It just tilts slightly and drives the transparent screen float a bit. In that case, you won’t miss any  important information or lose your concentration to the work .

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Window Phone

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Do you believe that the thin transparent touch phone could make accurate weather predictions and change its screen backgrounds to reflect real-time climate conditions? Incredibly miraculous, the display seems crystal in sunny days, foggy in rainy days and icy in snow days. Besides, it also highlights a convenient mode change that is simply switched as you blow your breath onto the phone.

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Violin-shaped Corded Telephone

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Oh, yea they do be gone as we get closer and closer to technology, landline phones are still being innovated to extend their extinction time. So representing to you here is a violin-shaped corded telephone, an elegant artwork that can still work as a housing decoration.

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Lighter Phone

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A cell phone that supports your bad habit! With a cigarette lighter embedded in it, the bar phone has a heating element on its back to light up your cigarettes. It also features other common functions, including a bluetooth, an FM radio, a 2.4 inch display, a 1.3 megapixel camera, a Mp3\Mp4 player and the multilingual vision.

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Deposit Check in Cell Phone

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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.

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Cell Phones for the Blind

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Specially designed for the blind, the cell phone is unique for its high plasticity, which could change and adjust the 3-D keys on the touch screen automatically. Whenever its function interface changes, the touch-keys on the handset will be adjusted consequently. As a result, it’s convenient for the blind people to identify the content shown on their mobile phone through a touch on the screen.

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Foundation-box Cell Phone

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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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Zumba phone

This so-called Zumba phone is claimed to be the first fully hands-free mobile phone. It is as small as a credit card and the real phone part is located at the back of the “credit card”. All the functions are controlled by your voice. In addition to this hands-free advantage, it seems that this phone is pretty secure as well. Since all the information is stored on a website called “Zumba Lumba”, even if someone get your phone they will not be able to control it. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Wind Chime for you cellphone

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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Magnetic touch screen

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...]

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Gesture phone with an innovative touch screen

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...]

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World’s lightest phone

This Modu mini phone, which weight in 1.4 ounces, just made it into the Guiness Book of the World Records as the world’s lightest phone. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Transformer phone concept

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...]

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Symbio VOIP phone

VOIP is a good alternative low cost communication way in this Internet era. However, in order to use this new service, you have to sit beside the computer. This unique frame phone from Thomson would make you communicate freely via wireless connection. Plus, the internet radio and RSS reader will provide more information. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Touchscreen phone with a built-in handset

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...]

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Fabric cellphone concept

Digital device always be cool, however, this kind of cool also need some warm elements. This new concept is made from soft fabric which could even fit your wallet. In order to hang-up or refuse call, you can just squeeze the phone with different force. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Toaster phone

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this concept is designed by Brazilian designer Renata Quintela. If you like delicious toaster, you gonna like this phone, although it is not used for EATING! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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[VIDEO] Morph—Nokia’s transformable cellphone concept

Although iPhone is a perfect product in our mind nowadays, it won’t be the best forever. So, what could a cellphone do in the future? Nokia tell us.

This new concept named Morph is developed by Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the University of Cambridge (UK) which could transform in any shaped totally depending on the user. Thanks to the nanotechnology, this incredible idea is not merely a dream, it will come true in 7 years. Plus, this cellphone also comes with transparent electronics and self-cleaning surfaces. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Digital tattoo

Designed by John Mielke, this concept is powered by your own blood. And the special smart-ink pixel painted on your skin could convert your skin into a touch screen which could not only show the information but also interact like iPhone.

Imagine that your skin gonna be a function like a display, you won’t be excited? [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Transparent slid phone

Different from normal slid cell, this design comes with a transparent keypad which is hidden in the phone body like a drawer. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Remade—Eco-friendly cellphone from Nokia

The remade concept is the most eco-friendly cellphone. The metallic body is made from recycled aluminum cans and the chassis contain plastic from drink bottles. Moreover, the rubber key pad is made of old tyres. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Modular phone patent from Sony Ericsson

This new patent comes with two housings, one for keyboard, keypad and some other input devices, the other one is for the display and the necessary circuit. The two housings could communicate with each other via bluetooth. In addition, the housing could be integrated in different orientation. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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NEC Flask is coming

Actully NEC has shown the Flask concept phone in CeBit 2006 which is powered by liquid fuel. But this time they claims that this unique phone gonna be released into market in 2008. Hey, it means that you could know the juice just by checking out the how much liquid is remained. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Gesture controlled cellphone from Sony-Ericsson

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...]

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Circle phone

In the era of rapid development of digital device, a cellphone could have many functions which is only run on computers. You could get enough information wherever you are as long as you have a cellphone. However, another simple design style is emerging.

This phone comes with only three function keys which are send, end and power. What’s more are the series of number keys. It’s so simple that you might like to have one just for calling. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Pen phone

This pen-shaped phone is really a sexy one. You like it? However, it’s not a good idea to send SMS with this phone. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Yamaha’s omni-directional VoIP Speakerphone

This idea from Yamaha is very good for cyber-meeting. The rotating arms with microphone arrays could capture perfect audio source. It just weights 537 g which is very portable. You could just plug it into the USB port, meeting is OK. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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