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Nokia Aeon: The IPhone Nano You've Always Wanted
- mojombo 18y agoThe difference is that if Apple were to do something like this they'd actually ship product and not just release a far-fetched concept.
- unalone 18y agoI remember the article on why Apple doesn't make conceptual phones. This article reminded me of that. Apple's magic isn't that they have ideas of beautiful things. I'm sure every company does. Apple's magic is that the beautiful things they imagine come true. (And I'd guess that's why a lot of people are Apple fans, myself included: because Apple seems to spit in the face of the idea that you can dream but it'll never come true. It's almost a giddy feeling.)
- nickb 18y agohttp://counternotions.com/2008/08/12/concept-products/ http://counternotions.com/2008/08/12/concept-products/ A commercial company’s ability to innovate is inversely proportional to its proclivity to publicly release conceptual products.
- unalone 18y agoThat's the post I mentioned. So true.
- felipe 18y agoExactly! "Real Artists Ship" http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Real_Artists_Ship.txt http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Real_Artists_Ship...
- unalone 18y agoThat's an incredible story. What a concise look at the drive that Jobs puts into Apple employees. And, from what Apple's been churning out, it seems to work. I also recall hearing that Apple engineers didn't think the iMac was technically possible, and Jobs made them build it anyway.
- sanj 18y agoI find there to be little value in designing without engineering constraints.
- bprater 18y agoConcept phones are really fun to dream about, but they aren't real.
- helveticaman 18y agoAgreed. This amounts to technological masturbation.
- lallysingh 18y agoI'll have to disagree with the rest of the commenters here. These concept devices are useful the same way (as they essentially are) science fiction is. Inspiration and a focus on new ideas instead of implementation. Too much focus on the latter can distract engineers from solving higher-level user problems. You just have to look at them more as sci-fi than vaporware.
- tel 18y agoSo if it's sci-fi, what does that say about Nokia?
- brushbox 18y agoThat dreams are much more exciting than mundane reality?
- raquo 18y ago100% true, but as everyone is doing such concepts, the value of a particular one is rather low. Few ones get implemented, and these are what's really valued.
- shawndrost 18y agoAlso, it's a friggin HOVERCRAFT! And it shoots LASERS! Guys, I think I should be a concept phone designer. I especially like how you get to talk about imaginary phones like they're real. ("So naturally, the whole surface is a touchscreen.")
- huhtenberg 18y agoGuy's whole portfolio of sketches is pretty interesting and worth checking out: http://petitinvention.wordpress.com http://petitinvention.wordpress.com
- evilneanderthal 18y agoohhhh shiny
- yan 18y agoIt's cute how the phone includes Apple's modifier keys.
- stcredzero 18y agoThe author is clueless about the response time of E-Ink. Also, no one is noting that E-Ink achieves a lot of its power thriftiness by being a reflective screen, not a luminescent screen.
- swombat 18y agoAlso, eInk is not OLED.
- alexandros 18y agoThis is NOT a Nokia concept phone. This is a 'just a sketch' design by Mac Funamizu. You can see the originals on his blog here: http://petitinvention.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/just-a-sketch-mobile-phone/ http://petitinvention.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/just-a-sketch... , where he links to the Nokia Aeon video on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5jPtUym7oc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5jPtUym7oc . Altogether, a nice phone but not connected to Nokia in any way as far as I can tell.