Technology - May 22 200715 Worst iPhone Concepts
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We've finally seen the iPhone and we're all waiting to get our grubby hands on one when they finally become available sometime in June 2007. But until then we have to do something to curb that iPhone urge so we decided, with all the speculation that was going on up until the unveiling last month, to compile a list of the worst iPhone concepts that the denizens of the web came up with.
Here you have it, iPhone concepts from Apple fans who thankfully were NOT on the design team:  Apple went back in time to the 80s and stole the design for the Sony Discman, figuring that most iPhone groupies would be too young to recognize the Discman, or even know what a compact disc is. Remember when you could pry open the Discman lid while it was on play and see an actual laser? Ah, good times.  Hmm, this is where the remote control for my massage chair went. Let's see ... setting 2 for camera phone and deep tissue massage, please.   "What we cannot speak of we must pass over in silence." - Ludwig Wittgenstein  Call me old fashioned. I actually want one of these. When old tech and new tech combine to give you a zero sum gain, that's innovation!  Where refurbished flat-screen iMacs go to be repurposed as unusable iPhones. Where's the display, where's the keys, where's everything you need in a phone but the handset?  At least the rotary dial will prevent accidental 911 calls.  The design team went to a Nokia store and rummaged through the overstock bin of starter cell phones.  Because I'm getting too good at texting, the designer of this concept decided to up the ante with a circular keypad.  Your new iPhone also doubles as a faceplate for your car stereo, in case you want to deter thieves from stealing your sounds by masking your $200 stereo with your $500 iPhone.  This either goes on your wrist, which sorta makes sense, or on on your head, like a headband, which makes less sense. I kinda like this one. If it shot webbing, then it would be perfect.  Ah, when conversation is just too much of a hassle. Phones are getting slimmer but your wrists keep getting weaker. Thank goodness for the lawn-chair design of the new iPhone. Now, my phone and I can relax as I make my necessary connects.  Looks like a glass case but it's not. It's the new iPEZ dispenser.  Texas Instruments and Apple decided to collaborate and build the world's most powerful tip calculator. If you're short on the bill, you can call the 'rents to wire you money fast. Also does square roots to the 8th digit. So nice.  Err... There you have it, folks. The best of the worst. Most of these were concepted in fun, but there were a few we think were serious concept predictions for the iPhone. I hope those were conjured up in a nice safe padded cell.
By: anh ta |
serpico (21) |
I don't even understand that last phone. |
yoyoy123 (NR) |
the half of them are fakes,,,,photoshop |
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I think they're ALL fake... it's pretty obvious... |
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I think they're ALL fake... it's pretty obvious... |
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Some of them are pretty old (2001). Back then they would not of been so lame. |
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Nick (NR) |
is the last one ment to be a hologram coming out of the apple remote? |
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Firstly, what's with all the crys of "all fake" "half are fake".... well duh! Maybe if you read the article instead of just looking at the pictures you'd already know that! Pic 10: Is not an iPhone concept, it is in fact the Onyx concept phone from Synaptics and Pilotfish. here |
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some of them is better than the original iphone,,, :D |
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They are all iFakes from Apples. Like you said, thank God, no one was involved in the original design. Regards Nick |
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This design was only abandoned because of a potential lawsuite from Bell Labs: here |
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The old fashioned phone is the worst. |
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Sigivald (NR) |
The ones you mock as being a Nokia starter phone seems pretty obviously based on the clamshell iBook design language - that's the homage, not Nokia. And it's interesting how close the "faceplate" one was to the actual final design, especially compared to all the others. |
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Seb (NR) |
theese are all inspired by the kid who is the lead designer of nokia |
Posted: May 22 2007