Nokia Aeon: The IPhone Nano You've Always Wanted

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by pbnaidu • 18 years ago

39 22 18 years ago

mojombo• 18 years ago

The difference is that if Apple were to do something like this they'd actually ship product and not just release a far-fetched concept.

unalone3• 18 years ago

I 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• 18 years ago

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.

felipe• 18 years ago

Exactly! "Real Artists Ship"

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Real_Artists_Ship...

sanj• 18 years ago

I find there to be little value in designing without engineering constraints.

bprater2• 18 years ago

Agreed, that's where the beauty is always found.

kqr2• 18 years ago

For example, it doesn't take into account the fact that current e-ink displays are really slow.

bprater2• 18 years ago

Concept phones are really fun to dream about, but they aren't real.

helveticaman• 18 years ago

Agreed. This amounts to technological masturbation.

lallysingh• 18 years ago

I'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• 18 years ago

So if it's sci-fi, what does that say about Nokia?

brushbox• 18 years ago

That dreams are much more exciting than mundane reality?

raquo• 18 years ago

100% 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• 18 years ago

Also, 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• 18 years ago

Guy's whole portfolio of sketches is pretty interesting and worth checking out: http://petitinvention.wordpress.com

evilneanderthal• 18 years ago

ohhhh shiny

yan• 18 years ago

It's cute how the phone includes Apple's modifier keys.

stcredzero• 18 years ago

The 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• 18 years ago

Also, eInk is not OLED.

alexandros• 18 years ago

This 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... , where he links to the Nokia Aeon video on YouTube here: 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.

Nokia Aeon: The IPhone Nano You've Always Wanted

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