OLED-screen cell phone design speaks truth to complexity
This Nokia Aeon-like concept sketch, by Mac Funamizu, demonstrates how a phone with an OLED-wrap display could look. It is, as Unplggd remarks, the "IPhone Nano You've Always Wanted"; but that is really just a way of saying that it's a minimalist design that hits all the right notes.
The most remarkable thing about it is how it solves unremarkable needs. It imagines technology that makes design simpler: if such display technology was implemented, LCD screen frames and bezels would not only become unnecessary, but immediately seem like pointless ornamentation.
Just a Sketch: Mobile Phone [Mac's website via Yanko and Makezine]
Wait--OLED or e-ink?
I'd tap that asterisk.
Looks to me like e-ink, but actually it looks to me like unobtanium, especially as he's imagining braille dots raising out of the screen to provide text to the blind...
That said, it's a beautiful sketch for a concept, and it would be nice if real phone could move in that direction without screwing themselves up in design sub-sub-committees that end up creating the worst designs and UIs imaginable...
It's a rubbish design. It's not Black. Technology should be black. I would make it grubby in 3 days...
...probably 3 hours actually.
Totally agree with cha0tic, all technology should be black.
Meh. Black is rubbish. White is rubbish. Use stainless or chrome. Satin them for those who obsess over fingerprints, a polish for those who want bling.
The whole thing is screen. Changing the colour should be simple.
WANT!
black yes, but preferably in Bakelite.