The Universal Phone, by D Seunghan Song, is designed for both blind and sighted people. How does it work? Thousands of micro pins dynamically raise and lower forming a tactile surface for all to get touchy with. Sighted people get the elusive tactile.

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Love conceptual designs? Chances are you’ll like the DYA phone concept that comes with features pulled right out from the future, including rounded bubble-buttons that are a snap to press (and fun, too), without having to actually look at them. The unusual bubble composition places #1 right at the top, while the others down the [...]

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The Stix concept phone is designed by Cyrene Quiamco and helps burn off calories to keep you in shape. This innovative device will only charge up again if you jog, jump, shake, or perform any other exercise so your kinetic energy can keep it working.

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Designer Zhenwei You has come up with this conceptual cellphone known as B-Touch that aims to help the blind communicate more effectively in a mobile manner with family and friends. It will feature a touchscreen display that caters for Braille, thanks to blind touchscreen technology and a combination of voice systems as well as programs [...]

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If you follow mobile concept designs, you might remember a rather interesting concept for a new Moto phone by Kelly Bremer. If you don’t, that’s the phone in the photo above, the Motorola Nest, a back-to-back touchscreen phone with an elegant but odd design.

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Today a design company called Pilotfish unveiled a concept phone, called the Ondo. The phone’s main features will be aimed at music enthusiasts, and will include the ability to record three separate audio tracks and edit them by twisting and bending the phone. The Ondo will have three detachable microphones, which are also part of [...]

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The Apple iPhone 2,1 or 4G on the photo is titanium and glass, the future of the Macbook and perhaps of all luxury cellphones in the future. It’s not going to be cheap and may not be feasible at all considering that you’ll have to sneak a GPS receiver and WiFi in a super-thin frame, [...]

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Spotted on Yanko Design, a Nokia concept phone by designer Rune Larsen:
“Among the grievous wrongs done by touchscreen technology, the worst is its disregard for tactile feedback. Without the pleasant sensation of a button being pressed, we are woefully incapable of using any gadget without complete visual attention.

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Ever get so pissed at your cell phone that you just want to chuck it into the trash? If Sony Ericsson’s GreenHeart phone ever sees the light of day, you’ll be able to do it, and nature will take care of the rest. For now, the phone is a concept (aren’t they always?), but the [...]

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Swedish designer Peter Thuvander likes yo-yo’s so much that he designed an iPhone charger concept around them. Called the iYo (what else?), the device charges its lithium ion battery cell with an OLPC crank that’s turned using the spinning power of a yo-yo. “The remote control needs only 30 cranks—which is nothing when you yo-yo,” [...]

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Spotted on Trends in Japan, a concept phone in the shape of a stuffed teddy bear -that holds a SIM card and enables you to make and receive calls.
It was shown off at the Good Design Expo by mobile provider Willcom.

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The award winning Tatung VOIP, is one classy phone with aims to making internet phones user friendly, writes Yanko Design.
By Nova Design, it’s currently on exhibition but hopefully it will go into mass production.

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The au Design Project x Yamaha from KDDI show a series of phones that double as musical instruments. Designed by a foreign and Japanese team of young innovators, these handsets are original, creative, and (the best part) actually able to make music, writes Trends in Japan.

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Rain blasted urbanites should love this idea. Bluetooth Umbrella is simply an umbrella with a bluetooth enabled handle for handsfree operation with your mobile phone. It also doubles as radio so you can totally go “singing in the rain.” Leave it to designers to make people look kookier than they are.

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