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NTT gives us a peek at cellphones in 2015

NTT gives us a peek at cellphones in 2015

If Japan's number one telecommunications company NTT has its way, there could be a modular cellphone in your future, with various attachments that give the phone magical new powers. The star of the company's soothsaying is the flexible scroll attachment pictured here, giving you a big color screen to read the newspapers and magazines (and blogs) of 2015.

Take a look at this video, showing a couple of strange ideas NTT predicts we'll be writing about six years from now:

Via MobileCrunch

 
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By avendeen at 2:00 PM ON 06/05/09

Looks a lot like the phone in the TV series "Earth Final Conflict"

By Hank Johnson at 5:18 PM ON 06/05/09

What year will we pick as sounding futuristic once 2015 passes by?

By Thrishmal at 5:19 PM ON 06/05/09

2021 will be the new "future" year ;-)

By Lawlz Barkley at 7:54 PM ON 06/05/09

I love the Japanese. What's the first thing they think of to attach to a cell phone? Why, a flute and a blood test unit, of course!

By zarchitect at 1:12 AM ON 06/07/09

who put their display together? 3 year olds with a bunch of recycled nintendo parts and a glue-stick? At least make it LOOK like an OLED paper by projecting a small image from behind it or something... what what's with all the light sabers? They really need to work on their marketing!

By anonymoustache at 7:12 PM ON 06/11/09

I'm looking forward to my three foot mobile phone with wind chime, key cutter, soap dispenser, and vibrating butt plug.

By tlhintoq at 12:43 PM ON 06/12/09

Yep.... Its a 'Global' from Earth Final Contact. As I recall the Global had a camera facing in and one out for video conference and shooting out-ways events, as well as a disc slot on the right side for discs the size of a quarter.

By necrosage2005 at 9:35 PM ON 06/12/09

This one time. At CELL PHONE camp... HAHAHA! Once this is out its only going to be a year untill we all get our Jetsons flying cars. I can't wait!

By IsoTek at 4:37 AM ON 06/13/09

Yeah, cause you just gotta have a flute attachment for your phone. I mean, I have been so many places where I have stopped in actual thought and conversation for lack of a musical instrument attachment for my phone. Clever Japanese though, I would have just used the phone to like talk and stuff.

By tph at 4:18 PM ON 06/15/09

Forgive me for stating the obvious, but clearly the intent is for you to just swap out the different attachments, using any one for precisely the duration it's useful. Now, I have no problem with that model, but I'm not sure how successful it's going to be.

Take the e-ink reader attachment, for example. You could just as easily use a Kindle (or by 2015, something better), and you have embedded wireless connectivity without the need to hook it up to a phone. Ultimately, you could embed 3G+, wireless N, and any other connectivity hardware you wanted in any of these devices in and of themselves, without having to attach them to the cell phone. Thus, when you put your cell phone through the washer, you don't suddenly have a horde of attachments that are useless without their hub.

The question then becomes: will the attachments be that much less expensive than their counterparts with embedded connectivity that it will justify putting all your eggs in one basket? The deciding factor is going to be whether the cost multiplier for bleeding edge versus mainstream is greater than the number of gadgets. Put another way, would you rather have 5 gadgets with embedded 7G (remember, it's 2015), or 5 attachments for an 8G hub? If they're the same price, then I, as a tech savvy person, would go for the next-gen connection and hope that my luck with not breaking cell phones continues, but I'm fairly certain my mother, for example, will just go for the last-gen version because it has fewer moving parts.

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