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.

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.

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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.

Designer: Elium Studio

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.

Designer: Suhyun Kim

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.

Designer: Tirshathah Hunter

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.

Designer: Daizi Zheng

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.

Designer: Liu Hsiang-Ling

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.

Designer: Mikhail Stawsky

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.

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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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.

Designer: Carl Hagerling

Look, what’s this?

Yes, it’s a square, transparent item, with only one button on its surface, but that’s obviously not the exact answer. In fact, it’s an interesting concept phone from Fujitsu. Though we may wait for years to own a real one, lots people are still attracted by the phone’s special design, which displays both a virtual keyboard and a screen. At present, the phone is only exhibited in Tokyo.

Designer: Hiroyuki Tabuchi

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.

Designer: Yoon Ungnoh

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 .

Designer: Mac Funamizu

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.

Designer: Seunghan Song

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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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.

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.

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.

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 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.

The video from BBC will give you more details.

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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Designer: Lufdesign

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.

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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.

Designer； Zin Chan

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.

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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.

Designer: Shkinder Maxim

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.

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This Mooon+ touchscreen phone features a built-in handset which could be attached on the phone as the microphone when not in use.

Designer: Sunman Kwon

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.

Designer: Qian Jiang

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!

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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.

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You could also check out this concept from “Design and the Elastic Mind” exhibition, on view from February 24 to May 12, 2008, at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

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?

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Different from normal slid cell, this design comes with a transparent keypad which is hidden in the phone body like a drawer.

Designer: Chris Owens

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

Designer: Jin Le

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.

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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.

The device will be available in early December 2007 for about $546.

Although you could setting speed dial, it’s not enough for elders. This new concept could be a good alternative.

You get a bunch of RFID tagged badges to program someone’s number and even insert their picture. Just place the badge on the call button and press it, it’s OK.

Designer: Jeong-Kyun Nam

Just separate the two parts of the phone, another part of the LCD gonna be revealed. Maybe it’s not a convenient one, it’s still a good design.

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The frame of this phone is actually a Memo Pad. You do not need any extra notepaper beside.

Designer: Arthur Se

After TI releasing their first projection cellphone http://www.inewidea.com/2007/09/22/2574.html, some new concepts have been designed. This have a display totally based on the built-in projector, also, you could still project the image onto any surface. Moreover, it could be connected to PC to be a real portable projector.

Designer: Stefano Casanova

This concept design gives you a better way to charge your cellphone. You can just hang it on the wall and charge it at the same time.

Designer: Maxie Pantel

This Infobars 2 cellphone is a fairly cool phone. It looks like a balloon. But it won’t be broken by puncturing.

This concept cellphone makes your touch experience totally different.

Designer: Timo Wong

This concept design allows you to put phone in new ways and new spaces.

Designer: Alec Wong & Donn Koh

This phone allows you to call your friends with a car. It’s really funny.

Currently, it is only available in China.

Price: 8,999 Twaiwan dollar (273 $USD)
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Hey, you can answer you cellphone just by flicking your wrist. The people seeing your action might think that you’re spiderman.

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