Collection of the most creative and interesting cell phone concepts designed by talented people from all over the globe.
Weather Cell Phone Concept
Beautiful cell phone concept design by Seunghan Song accurately detects and illustrates present weather conditions. [link]
Mobile Script Cell Phone Concept
Designed by Aleksander Mukomelov, this cell phone comes with a large touchscreen, that is located inside the phone in the collapsed state. [link]
Projector Cell Phone Concept
Cool extra slim concept cell phone equipped with rotating screen with built-in projector; an ideal tool for field presentations. [link]
Alarm Clock Cell Phone Concept
Sony Ericsson WakeUpPhone looks and functions like an alarm clock that will wake you up in the morning. [link]
Pen Cell Phone Concept
Target-shaped areas on top and bottom are earpiece and receiver. [link]
Edge Cell Phone Concept
Designed by Chris Owens, the transparent touchscreen keypad is edge lit by internal LED’s. [link]
Grass Cell Phone Concept
Designed to last only for the length of its functional life cycle, this green phone falls apart for easy recycling after two years are up. [link]
Mechanical Cell Phone Concept
Cell phone designed by Mikhail Stawsky will charge its battery when you spin it around your finger. [link]
Flexible Cell Phone Concept
Beautiful wrist concept cell phone designed by Shirley A. Roberts. [link]
Ear Cell Phone Concept
Kambala is a cool mobile phone that transforms into an earpiece. [link]
Sam
This stuff reminds me of Zune products, particularly the Mechanical concept, and the Ear Cell Phone concept.
my fav is the first one though, I’d LOVE to have that!
Jan 7th, 2010
Karen
i wonder how bummed you would be when you spin your cell phone off your finger.. xD
Jan 7th, 2010
barn
The second one, is awesome
Jan 7th, 2010
Sudeep
This is such a mouth-watering list. I want each one! And like–NOW!
Jan 8th, 2010
Adam
You should take a look at Nokias Morph concept
http://www.nokia.com/about-nokia/research/demos/the-morph-concept
http://www.nokia.com/press/media_resources/photos/corporate/showphotos?category=rd
Jan 8th, 2010
Murphyo0o0o
Definitely the first one… really really WANT.. yes NOW
Jan 8th, 2010
Bone
Those are really cool cell phones!
Jan 8th, 2010
Lushe - Urban Gardening
Love the grass phone
Jan 8th, 2010
Final
the ear cell phone looks painful
Jan 8th, 2010
kittu katsu
I like the flexible mobile concept…. it would be so cool to wear mobile as an accessory….
Jan 8th, 2010
Julie
The mechanical cell phone one is such a good idea!
Jan 8th, 2010
Mask
“Designed to last only for the length of its functional life cycle, this green phone falls apart for easy recycling after two years are up”
not if i smoke it first
XD
Jan 8th, 2010
Dan
Some of these concepts, like the grass phone and the alarm clock phone, are seriously ridiculous. Gotta love first-year industrial design students.
Jan 8th, 2010
Fred
I like the pen one… texting wouldn’t really work though.
Jan 8th, 2010
latincrow
can you make the grass one with weed? XD
Jan 8th, 2010
Karin L.
Pretty cool ideas!
Jan 8th, 2010
cro
the pomegranate would beat all these..if it were real
Jan 8th, 2010
Oz
Damn. It’s really awesome. Weather concept is cool, but mechanical concept is brilliant.
Jan 9th, 2010
susan
the edge phone concept is what the lg crystal tried to do. stunning~
Jan 11th, 2010
M@rtin
grass phone + mechanical phone = DAMN IT, IT FLEW OFF MY FINGER AGAIN AND SHATTERED!!!
Jan 11th, 2010
Alison Lee Cousland
The grass cell phone concept has given me an even better idea. If the cell phone was inlaid/surrounded with orgonite, the user wouldn’t be affected by all the EMR emitted from their phone. NOR all the people sitting, standing, walking etc behind the user.
Jan 12th, 2010
007
and a phone in the head……imagining the number, and the inner device starts the dialing….the ears act as receivers…….for that, the device will have to be planted by the devil himself…..this is after the green phone is made of weed and used(lol)
Jan 12th, 2010
Macilias
1st one ist fantastic! Could be a future iPhone and a future Tablet could look like the ones from Avatar (very similar to this concept). I think and hope there will be some of such products available in the future.
Jan 13th, 2010
Tim
For the Pen -
I appreciate the work you have put into this, but it really is impractical, and although it’s a cool idea it will never happen.
A few reasons why
1. You can’t fit a SIM in it, and phone don’t work without SIMs.
2. With all the internals packed into it, where will the ink go?
3. What if the ink runs out? You have a stupid wand phone that is embarrassing to answer.
4. Battery life = DX ( <– that’s a face)
5. You let a friend use your pen, you forget to ask for it back. There goes your phone.
6. It could roll away when you put it on a table
7. No point for micro SD. What’s there to put on this phone? All your videos you can’t watch? I don’t think anybody has *that* much ASCII porn.
8. If the idea of it is to be compact and basic, why does it have a full number pad? why not scroll through numbers and save the space? I don’t often enter numbers as mine are stored.
9. USB? Its got bluetooth. Save the space and keep it simple. Not much transferring would be needed.
See what I’m getting at? Nice pictures, but don’t say that your fantasy isn’t out of reach anymore. It is, because no mobile phone manufacturer with half a brain would produce it, they’d be running at a huge loss, and it’s only money that they care about. (There wouldn’t be all these fantastic phones if it wasn’t about the money!!)
My 2c.
Jan 14th, 2010
anon
Grass phone is many things. Ridiculous, hilarious, absurd, silly. Do people get paid to excrete such designs?
Jan 14th, 2010
Reilly
I lose pens on a regular basis. I loose my pen, I loose my phone. That’s like $100 down the drain.
Jan 16th, 2010
Dewey Farquar
I like the one with the weather in it but where do they put all the stuff that makes the phone work?
Jan 16th, 2010
Sig
The first app for the pen cell phone will be a nudie app where the girl loses her dress, digitally LOL
Jan 16th, 2010
Balroeg
The Ear Cell Phone…
I don’t think, i want to touch the numbers 2 and 3 after some days… a bit disgusting
The Design itself is pretty nice - a bit like the Lamborghini Pen-Design
http://www.sybarites.org/2009/10/lamborghini-pen-by-omas/
Jan 23rd, 2010
Mohini
stumbled upon from India, Love the wrist phone, and *love* the weather phone.
The grass phone is just plain absurd. Not so much the idea, as the execution. Who would want little pieces of grass fall all aver their handbags each time you take it out/put it back. Or worse still a grassy mucky pocket. yesh. If they made it out of a less dramatic packaging, like maybe cardboard, or something perishable that is NOT grass for crying out loud. Wana go green, there are better ways.
Jan 26th, 2010
kaushlesh Bhardwaj
Seunghan Song, you really did a great job. In fact the list is really great but your’s one is a masterpiece. My 1 to 10 list follows:
1. Weather Cell Phone Concept, 2. Ear Cell Phone Concept, 3. Mobile Script Cell Phone Concept, 4. Mechanical Cell Phone Concept, 5. Flexible Cell Phone Concept, 6. Ear Cell Phone Concept, 7. Edge Cell Phone Concept, 8. Projector Cell Phone Concept, 9. Alarm Clock Cell Phone Concept, 10. Grass Cell Phone Concept.
Jan 27th, 2010
amit bhatia
these are some of the awesome experiments…………..
Jan 28th, 2010
Elane Montgomery
The weather one is by far the greatest.
Jan 28th, 2010
Abhinandan Reddy
The weather cell phone concept sounds nice.
Jan 30th, 2010
ibivi
Ah, all you lustful little consumers. Some great creativity here.
Jan 30th, 2010
Zia
Very Nice Concepts..
Jan 30th, 2010
Rae
I think all of the ideas were unique and the ear phone makes me think of the early days before the blue tooth. I’m not here to analyze products, but to see how the minds flow. If I were going to do that I go to a focus group where I could get paid to tear down or promote a product…. I love the projector phone idea, too cool!
Jan 30th, 2010
Karpo
The morph tops all of these:)
Jan 30th, 2010
Sarah
Well, the weather cell phone is so cool, I wonder what would happen if it was a sunny day.
Jan 31st, 2010
Shelly
Spinny cell obviously wins. That is awesome! Tho I would want a wrist strap O.o :)
Feb 1st, 2010
dudeman
@Shelly: Any strap would greatly reduce (read: make impossible) your ability to spin that phone on your finger.. or anywhere else.
What they should do is package the phone with a telescoping rod on which it could be spun. This could be slightly larger in diameter on one end, and flatten to a disc shaped object that could be easily carried around in the same pocket you use for your phone.
Slide the phone on the skinny end of the rod and since the other end would be thicker, there is no possibility for the phone to fly off…
Unless you let go of the rod!
Feb 1st, 2010
shameem akanda
Nice.
Feb 2nd, 2010
Jared
I love the spinning phone, and I wouldn’t be too worried about it spinning off your finger. The white ring probably grips your finger and then that, when spun, stays in place while the phone spins around it, creating the energy. Not really much danger of it spinning off your finger. It could also be made like those flashlights that you shake to charge. That would work just as well.
I also like the mobile script phone if they could make it work. And, obviously the weather phone is cool, but there would probably have to be part of it that isn’t completely clear for the electronics and stuff.
the grass one is stupid. period.
Feb 2nd, 2010
Mattrhysevans
The weather phone is a cute idea. But surely you wouldn’t need to look at your phone to see what the weather conditions were. I prefer a technique I’m pioneering that i call “looking out of the window”… If the phone’s appearance changed while looking at the calendar, reflecting the predicted weather on that day - now that would be cool!
Feb 11th, 2010
cc
two words: Pomegranate Phone
Mar 4th, 2010
Yasir
What can I say for this ideal technology its totally unbelievable………
Apr 5th, 2010
Bubba
These are seriously some of the worst ideas I have ever seen. Either they are useless, impractical, impossible to make, outdated, or just plain dumb.
1. The weather one: It looks really cool..essentially a clear iphone..but first of all, who would market a phone with the main feature of it’s ability to tell you the weather? any phone can do that..secondly, if you’re making a phone that’s clear, how can you possibly have anything inside that makes the phone actually work? also, i don’t want my phone to become harder to read just because its raining or snowing out.
2. Again, this phone would be cool if it was in any way possible.how exactly does the designer expect to fit that gigantic touch screen into the main part of the phone that is about 1/8 of its size? the only way it could even remotely come close to working is if they were to maybe have it come out in pieces that fold out, which would make the phone absurdly thick.
3. The design of the phone is sleek and futuristic…had it been made five years ago. As for the projector feature, let me know when we’re anywhere near being able to make the technology to make that happen in a device that small.
4. This one is pretty hilarious..a huge, bulky device with LED letters is supposed to be futuristic? Where is the keypad supposed to be, anyways?
5. The pen concept would be cool in the maxwell smart days..many reasons for this being a flawed design have already been documented, so I won’t touch it.
6. This one’s pretty nice looking…it basically looks like a glorified version of the original LG Chocolate, but it’s a nice rendering.
7. I’m still laughing at this one.. this rendering looks like they took the Chocolate and stuck some grass on top of it…i really want a phone with an eco system growing in it that’s going to fall apart after two years, so I have no option but to get a new phone the moment that it falls apart..and that’s assuming that I could stand going two years carrying around a phone that ridiculous…especially since in the rendering, it appears to be a block of grass with some direction keys stuck on top..how exactly does this thing work, anyways?
8. Provided that the designer actually has any clue how the technology behind this would work, this is a pretty solid idea for a simple, clean, old people-friendly phone, and the ability to charge any time would be amazingly convenient.
9. Really? This phone would be the envy of the entire AV club. Since people rarely wear watches anymore since phones allow them to always know the time anyways, I somehow doubt that people would be willing to walk around with a gigantic cell phone/ watch? on their wrist (which, by the way, would probably not be too adjustable to different wrist sizes). It would get in the way, and it could not be stowed away in a pocket very easily when doing an activity that requires you to take it off.
10. This one appears to at least be possible and has a nice rendering, but there is no way that it could be light enough to be comfortably worn in the ear, and that nice, shiny black case won’t look too sharp after it spends a few conversations shoved into someone’s ear..besides that, it just doesn’t look too comfortable.
Jun 1st, 2010
Brandy
Hurry up future!
Jun 17th, 2010
GB
I like the first two, though they seem impractical. Blah at the rest.
Jul 26th, 2010