KDDI au concept phones invade CEATEC

We already caught sight of KDDI au's cellphone as musical instrument concept devices last month, but it looks like the company's fanciful design group had plenty more than those to show off at CEATEC, as evidenced by Akihabara News' slew of pictures from the show. Those include the satellite-like device pictured above, as well as a neat little minimalist number pictured after the break and another folding contraption (also after the break) that we're still trying to wrap our heads around. Hopefully we'll get a chance to check these out ourselves before CEATEC wraps up but, until then, you can hit up the read link below for some more pics.

[Hellaphunt @ Sep 30th 2008 3:00PM]

I thought it was a solar powered cell phone at first...
Looks kind of cool while it's closed.
(This better not be a MFin double-post)

[Hellaphunt @ Oct 1st 2008 1:38PM]

Ahh... they ARE solar panels then.

[HOOPER @ Sep 30th 2008 3:26PM]

The red one looks like a Pokedex.

[Lowest Ranked @ Sep 30th 2008 4:15PM]

pokedix*

[Jinto @ Sep 30th 2008 3:16PM]

The bottom one looks fun. Reminds me of the 'magic' wallets.

[avester @ Sep 30th 2008 3:17PM]

Does the first one come with "E.T call home" sound when it unfolds like that?

[Ian @ Sep 30th 2008 3:20PM]

More renderings of the layer projector phone http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/08/22/3-ply-phone/

[y3k.nik @ Sep 30th 2008 3:27PM]

Isnt the "folding contraption" just a normal folding phone with buttons on the hinge? Or is there something else that I cant tell?

[Shoumik @ Sep 30th 2008 3:29PM]

the solar panel one seems intresting.

[Azerk @ Sep 30th 2008 4:16PM]

At first glance I though that first phone was a picture of a satellite.

[konshuss @ Sep 30th 2008 4:14PM]

i love the piece of wood phone in the gallery.

[Lowest Ranked @ Sep 30th 2008 4:17PM]

Yeah, I knew you wood.

[Ayle @ Sep 30th 2008 5:44PM]

I thought the first picture was the rendering of some satellite....

[Ayman @ Sep 30th 2008 8:51PM]

I thought they were bring a new meaning to the word Satellite phone

[foxdude0486 @ Oct 1st 2008 11:53AM]

Do some of those come with crazy electric/pneumatic motor sounds for when your flipping them open in one of their many shapes?