Mobile Phones Of The Future

Mobile phones are changing every day. They are getting thinner, larger and more powerful, and are handling an increasing number of tasks-so much so that today many people feel that they can leave their notebooks and cameras at home for a while if they take their handsets along.This would not have been possible without advancements in mobile chipsets, which have come a long way.Today’s mobile chipsets offer more features than their predecessors, in spite of actually being much smaller in size.And they will continue to revolutionise handsets as we know them if the following prototypes are any indication of what the future has in store:

Flexible screens 

Imagine a mobile phone with a foldable display that you can roll or fold from anywhere you like.It might not be available commercially yet but a prototype with a similar concept has been seen-Samsung’s Youm being the latest.It comes with a flexible panel made of some plastic material and has a shatterproof OLED display, unlike glass based AMOLED displays, which makes the device lighter and razor like thin.Nokia also developed a flexible mobile phone model named Morph that can be flexed into four different forms.And Kyocera has been talking about a folding handset concept with OLED display that could be folded like a wallet or purse.

The earphone as phone 

This prototype pretty much redefines "razor thin” in handsets. Called Kambala Mobile, it comes with the earphone clip right in the middle of an ultra-thin handset, somewhere around the keyboard and upon being pushed backwards, the clip would pop out. This clip can be inserted into one’s ear and voila your handset becomes a headphone. As it is thin, it is not heavy. Kambala is still a concept and has a colour display and a keyboard.The device is made up of multi-layered polymer which holds its electronic components and the screen together.wear your phone Can you wear a phone? And we are not talking about smart watches but proper phones on your wrist. The bracelet mobile phone lets you do that.In contrast to the Nike Fuel band or the BT watches, it will not need to pair to a phone, but would actually be a full-fledged mobile phone right on your wrist. LG was the first brand to conceptualise a mobile phone made to look like a bracelet.They call it Helix and it could be practically worn on one’s wrist like a watch. Helix came with flexible circuits, had a  touch-screen display and was made out of rubber and black stainless steel.The handset was attached to the belt through a magnetic charger.Another bracelet handset is the Yuxa.Made from plant fibres and biodegradable plastic, it has an OLED display running across the strap. To use the phone, one had to take the bracelet off and uncurl it. Philips also designed a similar unit called Philip Fluid smartphone, which is flat, has an OLED display and can be worn on the wrist like a flat band.

Phone like a butterfly...

LG organised a contest called Design the future, inviting participants to come up with concept designs for future mobile phones. One of the concepts that bagged an award was Flutter, a butterfly-shaped mobile phone that looks sleek when closed with a numeric keyboard and a LG button below it. Once you press the LG logo, Flutter opens like the wings of a butterfly and an OLED based display with an iPhone like interface shows up in the middle. 

Posted By Lotfi Ben Taleb

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