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Filed under: LG, Misc

When we see alluring phone concepts that’ll never leave the lab, we end up wishing there was a little more innovation in the handsets out in the wild. There was a wealth of eyebrow-raising examples of that principle when LG Japan exhibited top entries to its Mobile Design Contest last weekend. We’re keen on the fbt, a phone designed for braille text messaging, and the Tap, which is shaped like a light switch and functions like one too — when you tap it, the phone turns off so you can live once again in peace. The winner, though, was the above-pictured Planet Phone, the surface of which is dotted with LEDs representing your friends; if you don’t talk to someone for a while, their light gradually moves out to the edge. It’s supposed to remind you to keep in touch, but it has darker connotations — if you become angry with someone, you can revel in the pleasure of watching them slowly tick away into oblivion. That’s absolutely a feature we want to see added to the Storm.

[Via Hallyu Tech]

LG’s concept phone contest winners should please art house gadgetphiles originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Tags: Braille, Connotations, Contest Winners, Design Contest, Engadget Mobile, Eyebrow, Fbt, Hallyu, Innovation, Leds, Light Switch, Mobile Design, Nbsp, Oblivion, Peace, Phone Contest, Pleasure, Principle, Tap, Text Messaging

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Symbian

If you’ve been enjoying those still pictures of Nokia’s 5800 XpressMusic touchscreen phone, but feel you’re lacking an in-depth experience, we think we can help. A slue of demo and instruction videos have just been slapped up on the Ovi Share site, allowing you to get a better idea of just how the device works, and what it seems like when it’s Makeit. Luckily for you, we’ve taken the trouble of including all of the videos after the break for your viewing pleasure, saving you the painful and laborious experience of hitting a read link. Enjoy.

[Via Cellpassion]

Continue reading Nokia’s 5800 XpressMusic phone intimately detailed on video

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Tags: Demo, Depth Experience, Nbsp, Nokia, Nokia Phone, Nokia Symbian, Pleasure, Slew, Touchscreen

Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, T-Mobile, GSM, EDGE

Remember that wild, sporty W6 that Moto unveiled a few weeks back? TmoNews is claiming that T-Mobile will be picking up a suspiciously similar handset known as the MOTOACTV W450 in early September. There’s really not terribly much continue in this place other than water resistance, apparently, with a 1.3-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, media support with microSD slot (the phone’s designed to be jogged with, after all), and that’s pretty much it. Fortunately, the pleasure of shrieking at your own yellow keypad should only run you $30-50, so they say, when it launches.

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Tags: Early September, Gsm Edge, Handset, Mobile Gsm, Motorola, Motorola Gsm, Motorola Mobile, Nbsp, Pleasure, T Mobile, W6, Water Resistance