I want a flexible phone for Christmas.

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I stumbled upon a Nokia phone concept and was inspired by it. Check out the attached video to see the possibilities. Note it’s a research concept, so some of the features may not actually be practical or useable.

It includes:

A flexible body
Tactile feedback
The ability to mutate the “skin” of the phone to manipulate the interface, e.g. bend to zoom, push to pan, etc.
The whole device can be used as an input and a display

The graphene electrodes allow for new form factors and innovative experiences.

Learn more about my thoughts on the future of mobile: http://kapuno.com/conversation/apu6f4yabslga

What do you think of the new design?

Responses

Sarah Hipps

January 03, 2013

I don’t have much to add to this other than, I think some parts of that concept have something special, the fuller range of touchscreen, the visual aspect, the flexing to browse photos…but on the whole, I don’t really know how much of that is necessary. Call me simple (although the definition of that is strongly misconstrued these days) but I enjoy the iphone for the fact that there’s a structure to its flow and a more intuitive use of pan and zoom.

And I might be clumsy, but I feel like that nokia would be a B in terms of accidental dials. “sorry dude, I accidentally bent my phone again” haha