


We love fun, implausible concept designs as much as the next guy, but this one in particular seems kind of far-fetched. The "Nokia Open" is/would be a cell phone that opens like a fan with a "scrollable touch screen," which seems to be an essential-yet-nonexistent item that would need to be invented in order for this to work. The idea is that with the push of a button the thin phone opens up, revealing a spacious screen on which buttons and menu options appear for you to manipulate with your digits. All well and good, but a cell phone that appears before you on the wings of a magical eagle would be cool too, though I'm not expecting Nokia to start marketing it anytime soon. Perhaps with the advent of flexible e-paper on the horizon, this isn't totally unimaginable, but it certainly is at least a decade off. Eventually we'll probably see flexible displays used in portable devices in some regard, but to design devices before the technology is… well, science fiction, really. But hey, designer Hugo Danti should keep up the Photoshopery; he's got talent.
Hugo Danti portfolio, via Yanko Design
By LostMK at 6:18 PM ON 06/20/06
Concept or not... I want this phone!
By cai at 1:43 AM ON 06/24/06
While this is a neat concept (for the next Tom Cruise movie, at least), I'd much rather back the Nokia 770 and Maemo (http://www.maemo.org/) for now.
By morphis at 1:01 AM ON 01/03/07
the rolloble screen is very real
this company is devoted to it
http://www.polymervision.com/default.htm
By signalnoise at 7:10 AM ON 04/06/07
WEAK
why would you design a phone with a display area in the shape of a circular arc and then utilize only a portion of that by only showing rectangular objects in that space? somewhere a GUI designer is pulling his hair out in tufts LOLZ
my ideal Nokia cellphone would be a button i would press and a glorious magical desk would appear with a comfy chair and a glorious magical secretary who would then take dictation and then make the phone call for me, and maybe get my coffee
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