Wooden Nokia concept phone goes beyond the drawing board, gets built
By Darren Murph 
posted October 13th 2008 4:09PM
posted October 13th 2008 4:09PM
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posted October 13th 2008 4:09PM
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I can't comment on the buttons, camera lens or speakers, but that screen is FAKE. Its a print stuck in there. Look at the right edge - its a little to jagged for a display. Also peep the lower left/left corner thats an odd looking black area. I also noticed that there is a little warp at the top o the "display" between 21-06-07 and the world and bluetooth icons.
Any chance of me getting a case like this made for my Pearl?
Daym sherlock, you got skillz!
That LG looked GREAT, i mean WOW is the only thing i can say.
Ooh I say
This is nice and all, but why not Wooden buttons and controls.. Geesh..!!
Why's you steal esat's picture? I like the chrome. it's a nice contrast.
huh?
Well it WAS the same at the time of posting. I even refreshed to make sure!
hm. A wooden cell phone would be pretty sweet actually. Honestly I don't need my cell phone to do more than send/receive calls, texts, and keep my numbers. All these cell phone, pmp, still camera, video camera, web browser, million-in-ones appeal to me less than a really elegant phone would. I prefer to use my computer for computing and my camera for pictures/video rather than my cell phone even though it is capable of doing such things.
If they made this phone...I would buy it, the design is just beautiful and unique. The hybridized styling of the old and new together really calls to me.
Awesome look. And you can turn it over and cut up vegetables.
I would love to see a company settle on a standard design format, like an iTouch (a single large screen - how simple is that) with customisable high-end milled shells of quality wood and metal. Maybe some leather or other materials. And release the 3D file so people can mill their own.
This is the most beautiful thing I've seen all week. (okay..so it's only Monday. This gets the week off to a good start)
Don't much care for that particular type of wood, though. Ebony or cherry wood would have easily made me drool. I really like the speaker with the screen, and the control dial.
Very Buck Rogers/Ray-gun Punk.
But will it float when it falls in the potty?
I can imagine the witty remarks owners will make like "I've got wood!"
set it to vibrate
Termites will bite your ear!
How is chopping down trees to make cellphones eco-friendly??
They should make one out of highly compressed cola cans and/or other garbage. Now that would be eco-friendly.
With sustainable development. trees grow back, especially bamboo which grows back REAL fast.
'Nokia Comes with Music' was one thing, but now they are giving me wood too? i think you're moving a bit fast for me Nokia.
I wouldn't mind a wood phone, but this particular design is ugly, IMO.
Too bad it won't be able to get through customs without fumigation.
This must be the most impractical phone design I've seen so far. The screen is in the corner, not centered or even on the upper area of the phone. Somehow they thought the media buttons deserved enough space to shrink the entire screen by a quarter inch. Then you've got the navigation button thing which is half the size of the screen.
Also, how am I meant to hold it? That is, how am I meant to hold it without my thumb smearing the screen?
I'm lovin the idea of a wooden phone with silver trim. Reminds me of the dash in a high end car.
That better no be the new version of symbian (non touch version). The battery and signal meter look cool but not the tiny clock. That would have to be corrected.