What do Microsoft product designers do on their day off? Why, they dream up concepts like this sleek mobile phone with an E-ink display.

Industrial designer Anthony Reed – whose day job is designing hardware for Microsoft, working on products like Zune and wireless keyboards – has given his concept phone simplistic styling to go with the crisp, monochrome display. If you like your handset to be black and white, and very readable, this could be the future. Plus the battery life should be astronomically good compared with the latest colour touch screen phones.

Is black and white the future of phones? Are colour screens oh-so-2008? Tell us what you think in the comments box below…

Out: probably never | £who knows | Anthony Reed

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