Motorola has just released a gallery of concept phones from its design studios, celebrating 25 years of the mobile phone by looking another 25 ahead, and there’s a heavy emphasis on mutating mobiles that change shape with a flick or a fold. Read on to see what’s in store right here!
Motorola definitely needs to work on its time management. While it turns out uninspiring phone after another these days, it’s letting its designers spend far too much time on these stunning concepts for phones we may be using in a few decades’ time.
Still, the fruit of the project, dubbed Motorola 2033, makes for some interesting future gazing. We’re not surprised to see visual overlays of the world around you playing a role, with avatars and emoticons being projected on to people you pass by – although that Motorola has chosen to beam them out of your nose seems a bit strange. However, we’re more than a tad intrigued by some of the shape shifting phone concepts on show.
Perhaps taking its cue from the Asus Fold/Unfold laptop prototype on show at CES this year, one Motorola design sees a piece of paper (Flexible OLED, perhaps?) being folded into different shapes for different purposes (Phone, video, holographic projection).
Another meanwhile sees the Motorola phone changing shape by shaking: one minute, it’s a video player as thin as a credit card, another it’s a long and narrow phone, and another it’s a business card for slinging your contact details to other devices.
Of course, these Motorola concepts are far from physically possible right now, but have a look through the gallery and see what could be commonplace when George Bush III comes to power. Now, how about you crack on with those Android phones please Motorola?
