Nokia 888

NOKIA 888

Do you know what’s being talked about for the future of cell phones? One of the most peculiar of the bunch is this trippy phone called the Nokia 888 Communicator. This phone runs on liquid batteries, it recognizes your voice, and is flexible as you can see from the picture.


This next phone is similar to the Nokia 888 Communicator in that they are both flexible, but this one appears to be more suitable for the females because of the sexy “snake” shape. I guess that’s why they named it “Snaked.” It has a motion sensor and it helps keep all active ladies trim and fit since they won’t have to stop running just to check their phone. Might be something I’d buy my girlfriend (if I had one).

These are concept phones, which are the companies way of saying “We have no idea how to make this work yet, but once it comes out it was our idea, right?”  The concept is that of a soft, entirely malleable phone which can be rolled or wrapped around any shape or body part you desire.  With recent advances in flexible circuitry and LED displays these handsets might not be so far fetched, but the initial pitches do tend to throw around phrases like “liquid batteries”, which a team of scientists have recently decoded for us.  Apparently it means “marketing speak gibberish”.

A related concept is “Snaked”, a fashion design from German based group Product Visionaries.  This hard shell phone is designed to wrap around some part of a ladies anatomy (most commonly shoulder), as much a fashion accessory as a functional attachment.  The problem is that this sort of gadget-created style only works when somebody like Apple does it and everyone agrees to believe it looks cool. Without that communal consent, it doesn’t look fashionable.  It looks like some alien phaser-blaster and you’re a stereotypical underclad alien female on her way to attack Stargate command.