Innovative Mobile Phones: Objects Of Desire
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Product designers are usually confronted with the problem of how to make their designs deliver value for the user. Usability is the first thing that comes to mind.
So the form factor and the use flow should be carefully looked at. However, consumer behavior also places economic and symbolic value to our day to day products, specially to those that objects that become personal and become part of our social interactions, such as the mobile phone.
Many experts point to the fact that for an innovation to matter, it does need to be adopted. Usability and consumer behavior are to key areas of study for anyone interested in human factors engineering and marketing strategy.
In today’s context, wireless technologies already enable you to cut the cord, your mobile phone is with you most of the time, and it is now on path to become a “wearable” object of desire.
References:
- Phone / NoPhone: expressive mobile phones
- BBC News: Students create sensual phones.
- LG’s Prada: Mobile innovation meets avant-garde design
- Samsung + Bang & Olufsen: Serene
- BenQ: The concept phone that has no buttons
- Motorola: Dolce & Gabbana and wearable concepts with Frog Design
- Nokia: L’Amour Collection
- Elkesen, Logitec & Ideo: Soft phone & more
- Apple: iPhone
Mobile phone concepts from Motorola and BenQ:
The BlackBerry 8300 is Blackberry’s smallest voice and data QWERTY device to date. It has a compact keyboard and enhanced media player capabilities, alongside a 2 megapixel camera. It features a powerful 312Mhz Intel processor giving you quick access to the Internet to help you keep on top of your emails. Navigation around the handset is simple with BlackBerry’s unique 5-way trackball. A compact QWERTY keypad makes writing emails effortless, with the handset also featuring a spell checker. The camera has a flash and 5x zoom, giving your pictures greater clarity and definition while supporting all video and image formats including MPEG4. Internal memory is 64MB and there is a MicroSD card slot.From Samuel http://www.Hitphone.co.uk