Futuristic Nokia Concepts Reviewed

nitinah writes "Nokia design concepts is an ongoing initiative from the Finnish communications giant that invites designers around the world to create breakthrough cellphone designs. Phonemag has coverage of this year's entries, which includes the Aki, a wrist wrap device for programmed self expression that tunes its behavior and outgoing/incoming communications based on the moods and gestures of the user, and allows 'talking' without speaking, just by gesture. Another design is the Acibo, which features a mini buddy device that has an entirely voice driven all-in-one personal communicator which can be charged by bio-energy. More featured concepts include a wearable, shock proof and waterproof device, the SURV1, a necklace based communicator called the Global Nomad , and a complete communication device called the Colores, with virtual storage to access all your personal information on the go."

Re:well, let's just do the future, ignore the pres

[znu]

Basic things like not randomly dropping calls are not solved problems. Most people blame the network. I live in Manhattan, though, which judging by both the carrier's maps an my own personal experience, has essentially perfect cellular coverage. If you are outside, you will have a strong signal. So, around here, when a call drops, it's not the network's fault.

Once that variable gets eliminated, it becomes very, very obvious that some phones do much better than others for reliability and reception. In particular, although there are differences between models, in general Nokia seems to do quite a lot better than Motorola and Sony Ericsson. That's the major reason I keep buying their phones even though they're ugly.

Re:Make Phones for Consumers

[fiddlesticks]

> Now that I think about it, I'm probably the only one that cares...

nope. everyone else gets their pics, music, vids on and off the handset with bluetooth, IR, or a USB cable.

Switch carriers or handsets until you can do that.

Re:well, let's just do the future, ignore the pres

[rilister]

Good grief. These are concept designs. They aren't trying to sell *you* these things: particularly not the 'that sux, won't work' contingent at Slashdot. They didn't spend your money designing them.

These are concepts, meaning ideas, thoughts. You're lucky they shared them with you, since Nokia knows (as well as you do) that they're half-baked.

Linus Pauling: "If you want a good idea, first get a lot of ideas"

Key concept:lighten up, dude. They're supposed to be fun.

I happen to believe the guesture element of the first concept is pretty cool - the stance you hold the camera in determines it's behaviour. No buttons.