Personalized CellPhones

Personalizing gadgets isn’t something new, in fact more and more folks seem to want to stand out from the masses. This customizable faceplate for a clamshell handset is a concept that will definitely challenge your creativity skills, featuring a grid lattice structure that holds colored pins which mimic precious jewelry. I foresee plenty of 8-bit love with this, and those with a little bit of extra dough to throw around can always deck theirs out with precious metals and gems. Too bad there won’t be any cellphone manufacturer embracing this concept - just yet.

Bence Bogar's Concept Phone

Designer, Bence Bogar, releases a concept phone which he claims is the “perfect phone in the world”, which means he claims his concept phone is better than iPhone. The concept phone has 2.8″, 5.0-MP digital camera, 512MB Ram, micro SD (T-flash) expansion slot, WIFI support, built-in Bluetooth technology, and built-in GPS features.

Google Phone with Open Source Platform

While Apple goes to extreme lengths to keep the vastly overpriced iPhone locked down so as to protect their lucrative deal with AT&T, Google has gone the other way in announcing their Open handset Alliance. The alliance joins 34 companies which will accept the Google Phone and it’s open source mobile platform called Android.

The Android platform is the first step in this direction — a fully integrated mobile “software stack” that consists of an operating system, middleware, user-friendly interface and applications. In addition, handset manufacturers and wireless operators will be free to customize Android in order to develop new products faster and cheaper.

T-Mobile, HTC, Samsung, LG and Motorola are amongst the leading wireless providers who have joined together to provide an open format for cellular communications which will also foster innovation on mobile devices and giving consumers a far better user experience.

Consumers should expect the first phones based on Android to be available in the second half of 2008.

TripleWatch

The idea of a cellphone watch is not so new, the TripleWatch designed by Manon Maneenawa has an interesting triple flip technique that allows the user to transform the watch into a normal cellphone. When used as a wrist watch, the phone has a speaker button that allows the user to answer the phone and hang up while driving.

Dark Label Retroxis Phone

The Black Label Retroxis phone by designer Lim Sze Tat reflects a retro
approach towards design with clean aesthetics, optimum controls and functions.
It is sheathed in high genteel polycarbonate prominent for its lightweight and stiffness and the imperceptible OLED display silently hides away when inactive to make your phone look clean and stylish.

Apple Concept Phones

As iPhone is already out with that, we thought why not put together a gallery of Apple concept phones that have littered the tech blogs. We almost went with 5, but then decided to be cliché and follow in the foot steps of so many other blogs and feature 10 concepts. Ranking in no particular order

Benq-Simens Black Box

Black Box designed by Benq-Siemens uses a touch screen as its keypad and, depending on the functions you are using, the touch screen changes the control layout immediately.

Sky - Sleek and Slim

"Sleek and Slim" from SKY is another concept based on touchscreen technology. The phone has a discretely glowing touchpad, hideaway keys and generally utterly-fashionable minimalist design.

Cuin5 Concept phone

CUin5 mobile phone is inspired by the big firm’s designs of a ‘super-practical’ interface with the all-too-typical feature set. Every face of the phone carries a keypad, microphone, and speaker. The part you touch first gets active while all other edges are in lock mode.

Nokia Aeon Concept Phone

The Nokia Aeon concept was somehow inspired by Synaptics Onyx. The full surface touchscreen display phone concept is indeed cool and tempting but who knows? Nokia is tight-lipped to make any comments on the phone.

Bracelet phone

When this Bracelet phone receives any message, it starts vibrating and making or receiving a phone call is just too easy. To read the message, take the bracelet out of your wrist and press the diamond-like keystroke.

It’s not just another run-of-the-mill concept. Instead, the bracelet phone comes with a built-in MP3 player. With this phone on your wrist, you are definitely going to rock the party and make others green-eyed.