Nokia's aeon "full surface screen" cellphone concept
By Conrad Quilty-Harper 
posted Oct 8th 2006 1:44PM
posted Oct 8th 2006 1:44PM
posted Oct 8th 2006 1:44PM
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BRILLIANT, looks jus brilliant.
nice photoshop work. but when will it be "hands on"?
Man, thats absolutely gorgeous
Jeez, Hot fucking shit, just when I thought that the Nokia R&D department was an oxymoron (very, very pedestrian offerings) they step up boldly like this. I don't know who they just hired but they need to keep him and promote him to head of department. My view, they need to pour every R & D cent they have into bringing this to market asap. This could be their Razr. I wanna beta test!
i would love it, until i messed it up, that thing has to be 20 times way too easy to break...
If they do that... I'll be a Nokia user once again... definately a turning point in design concepts.
Wow! That is absolutely beautiful!
Now that's what I'm talking about!
Full surface touchpad means no tactile feedback and constant accidental activation of the onscreen controls as you fumble with the phone.
It looks sweet, but I bet it would function horribly.
That is about the coolest thing I have seen all week. Does anyone know what the odds of production of these kinds of concepts might be, or how long it would take before one of these buggers was in my pocket?
It is just AWESOME!
damn holy good... ^_-
that is the coolest phonre design tht i hv ever seen in my life..will it ever come in production??
http://technolatest.blogspot.com
cool
I still like the Onyx concept better. :)
does it mean that edge to edge of this phone is the phone screen and that the buttons are just images shown on that screen? Ohhh, this is good but it's very fragile, i think. my way of bringing up a phone never suit for this kind of phone.
Wowzers to the max!!! This is the shizzle!!! Why can't we have phones like this?
What the chocolate phone WISHED it was!!!
OMG... Nokia, start the production right away. Don't think about costs-benefits... Just make it. I'll buy it at what evet pricetag you put on it. Now now now... That's the coolest and slickest design ever!!!!
i am stunned most of nokias phones thes days look so comon and mediocre but this is amazing. if they made it im sure it will outsell all RAZR models
Imagine if its fully programmable. You could do special effects with the key pad when you press buttons. Make the numbers zip up the screen and fill in the phone number you're typing etc.
I posted a concept like this on march:
http://im.digitalhymn.com/2006/03/21/la-mia-idea-di-un-apple-iphone/ (italian only).
About the "accidental enable issue": that shouldn't be a problem. Those kind of surface uses the natural conductivity of the hand and so it can't be "touched" by anything that you could have in a pocket. :)
Also, it could be locked by a specific gesture, a thing that will be REALLY cool instead of the old "keyboard lock". :)
About the feedback, that could be a problem, but it could be resolved. One solution is a "pushable" surface (like a recent Apple filing) or using a wheel-like interface (a "push" doesn't have feedback, but if you pass the finger on the surface you'll have a passive feedback).
So, I think that this solution, if well designed and engineered (UI and UX experts, please) could be really kickass. :)
The best thing about this concept is that it looks like it actually fits in your pocket!
Wow, that is incredible. I can't wait to see these out on the market. I've dreamed of a phone like that before! I just hope they can pull it off without issues. I think this could definitely be a whole new generation of cell phones. They could seriously take on the RAZR with this.
FANTASIC !!! Sure Razor KIller... B U T .... it will never be manufactured. It's just a project like several others that never materialized.
Look out, Moto, Nokia's coming back!
hells yeah. now THATS innovation (and teh sexness). kick up that R&D and make a working proto!
It looks very nice from a industrial design perspective, but I wonder how easy it is to use. Without any tactile feel for the button areas, I bet this will be a usability nightmare.
i see the read link gos to press photos. where is the story that actually goes with those photos? really curious.
what a beautiful phone,but i storngly want to know where is show about the nokia 8888?
I browsed the linked site and found the following under Events. Looks like the PDF containing the slides of some presentation that mentioned/showed this prototype and a lot more Nokia (wants to have/has) up its sleeves.
http://www.nokia.com/NOKIA_COM_1/Press/Press_Events/Nokia_Technology_Media_Briefing/Ryhanen_Huopaniemi_03-10-2006.pdf
Let's see... a hand-held digital personal commuication device with a dynamic, contextual full-screen touch interface... where have I seen that before...
Can you say "Video iPod" and "Apple Legal Department?"
I generally despise Nokia for their butt-ugly phones but if they pull this one off, all I can say is WOW. I mean, I wouldn't buy one for myself as I'm into pda-phones packed with so many features, the battery dies on you every 3 hours or so but hey, I may get one for my mom.
Bet the thing will have software faults out of its @ss, which Nokia will take 12months to develop a very temporary "fix" and will have a realistic battery life of 23mins and 12seconds like an 8800...standbye only, even though it'll have an "extended battery life"
Wow, dun u just wanna round it up and have sex with it lol....
in any case ima buying that when it comes out.... besides they probebly already made like the final version, but nokia is being gay like all the rest of the companies and not releasing it.. wth r they waiting for...
DK--
LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!
Need to get one, but they're comming out in a year or two.
I`ll Buy this even if it cant make a call!!! at least a modern mob 8D
It is pretty clear to me that Nokia is desperately trying to stake a claim on prior art before Apple succeeds in patenting every single aspect of it's video iPod and iPhone. These concept photos (certainly photoshoped) are almost guaranteed to be in direct response to recent Apple patent filings so that Nokia can attempt to claim they had the same in development and bypass patent lawsuits when they attempt to copy the iPhone. But it may already be too late for Nokia.
Simply beastly, already I have desire to have it
Bye,
Ray
If you check that pdf (page 1-5-10) provided by peSHIr, you’ll note that it's powered by a hydrogen fuel cell (middle bar/cross) and that the release buttons are at both sides of the middle bar. The screens are two separate parts.
This is the one of the coolest phones I ever laid eyes on. Gimme, gimme, gimme!!
Wet my pants when I saw this phone. Ooohh Ahhh!
WoW. Sexy phone:-P When is the release date?
The concept phone is beautiful but there isn't any navigation buttons. So, how are we going to use it? Sometime beautiful things just seems too stupid in logic.
This is not an original idea by any means. I myself and without being a product designer or similar thought about this kind of approach years ago when the tech wasnt there yet.
Its a logical step from what we have today.
People are too easily wowed these days.
Why would you need navigation buttons, its ALL touch screen? Looks sweet, but nokia's software department is lacking in every area. Shame, would have been nice!
It looks sexier, but my (old by now) Samsung SPH-i330 pretty much does the same. The whole front of the phone/PDA is a touch screen and number/keys are virtual, I can even change what they look like. Google it if you want to see.
@Rune
Well, then you should have made one... I think you'd make a lot of money making something like that. It's a beauty.
This is the Samsung SPH i-330.
http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=123
Which is basically a distant forerunner of any PDA.
The difference with the above phone is that it's not a picture on a screen and that it's a regular handset.
this is ultimate production of technology and mind created by nokia. i have no word to say..just greatest ever i have seen in mobile world.
Is this damn shit technological crap or wat??? its just simply superb..... i think it'll cost you wat ur honda civic costs....... around 1 million indian rupees....
Shit man,,,, shit....