Nokia today reveals the result of its recent collaboration with Central Saint Martins (CSM) College of Art and Design at the Future of Mobile Design exhibition.

Photo: Nokia Reveals Concept Phone Photo 1

For six months 25 Industrial Design students created concepts for a premium device capable of providing 4 or 5G multimedia services up to the year 2015.

The students worked for a cash prize and the chance to work side-by-side with Nokia's design team during a summer placement at the Nokia design studios near London. The winning design was also made into a Nokia made dummy handset for the specially-hosted exhibition in London's Air Gallery this week.

Although technology was a primary focus, students followed unique routes. They placed emphasis on everything from the use of senses as yet untapped by phones, through to areas of growing significance such as biodegradability, sustainability, customization, social capital and surveillance.

From the two dozen entries submitted Nokia chose Daniel Meyer's design - a mobile device inspired both by the advent of video calling and the traditional practice of carrying pictures of friends or family members with you. The handset is designed to sit as a picture frame wherever the user is, serving the dual purpose of communications device and a comforting familiar focal point; at home, at work or in a hotel while away on business.

The Future of Mobile Design exhibition will run from June 13-16 at the Air Gallery, Dover Street, London W1S, open daily from 10am until 6pm.

1. Posted by Cadd	Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:06 am
What kind of phone is that?! How can you even talk on that thing?
2. Posted by PunkRock	Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:04 am
no idea, but it sure is fugly.
3. Posted by booboy	Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:34 am
It's probably just a bad drawing of it... I hope. If phones look like that in 2015 I'm hanging on to my RAZR.
4. Posted by Bjoern	Thu Jun 15, 2006 3:34 pm
You can see that you can twist it... either the L form or a "normal" phone form.
5. Posted by mgoblue	Thu Jun 15, 2006 4:38 pm
except when you twist it the screen and the keypad are on opposite sides.
6. Posted by Bjoern	Fri Jun 16, 2006 3:23 am
Twist like rotate, not twist like bend
7. Posted by peryus88	Sat Jun 17, 2006 8:55 am
It reminds me of when I was a little kid and my parents gave me that long plastic stick that can twist, sometimes making it into a snake or something. But it looks...interesting. Other than that, I don't think that I would get it if it ever came out. What about that other concept, where you can use the phone almost like a bracelet...that's funky.

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