Nokia Kinetic concept offers some ideas Nokia might want to heed
By Donald Melanson 
posted July 19th 2010 5:42PM
posted July 19th 2010 5:42PM
Cellphone concepts are a dime a dozen, but a couple of particularly interesting ones have cropped up in recent days, including Andrew Kim's HTC 1, and this so-called Nokia Kinetic concept from British designer Jeremy Innes-Hopkins. Obviously, the most eye-catching aspect here is that prominent base, which is not simply a design flourish but actually houses an electromagnet that allows the phone to spring up on cue -- when an alarm goes off, for instance, or during a hands-free video call (simply flip the phone back down to dismiss the action). It's also not quite as chunky as it might look -- Jeremy tells us that the top half of the actual prototype is just 8mm thick, while the bottom is 18mm, and he notes that the base also conveniently doubles as a more camera-like grip for taking photos. Of course, it is still just a concept, but it was done at the request of Nokia, and a former Nokia designer served as a tutor on the project, so there's conceivably a slim chance that some of the ideas might wind up in an actual Nokia product.
ugh. I thought it was "Nokia Kinect". nice design though
@koolerz1569 Fuhget Nokia Kinetic, I'll buy the Nokia morph when it comes out in 2030 (hopefully)!!!!
@koolerz1569
thats a million dollar face, nokia you're sitting on a gold mine!!!!!!!!!!!!
please!!
@koolerz1569 Nokia has been dead sin the nGage.They should give up and sell their stock to RIM
@koolerz1569
This seriously reminds me of the Acer Liquid..
@Fox Con Nokia might not be that popular here in the US, but they still sell a lot of phones to other countries.
@koolerz1569 It's not in the iPhone's design league but it's not bad. Not bad at all.
@Zylam Agreed best looking phone for some time!
i just want to say, someone who never took rudimentary physics is trying to design phones.
seriously
@koolerz1569 I thought it was a remote.
@koolerz1569
Design nice but the designer... seriously, those fake "web 2.0" reflections are terrible. The FACE of the phone is reflecting in the middle render. :-/
@koolerz1569 yeah so did I haha
Is a very neat "concept" but that's about it.
@koolerz1569
Pretty concept. Would be cool if it sat up showing incoming phone calls too.
@koolerz1569
Hell Yeah! That phone looks sexy!
Still waiting on the Nokia Aeon.
@koolerz1569
Manufacturers need to start building crap that looks like those epic concepts. I mean I don't get it. You make an AWESOME looking gadget(Like that HTC 1 that was shown here on Engadget) and then not turn it into an actual product? Doesn't make any sense to me...
Then again car manufacturers do the same shit.
@koolerz1569
another cool Nokia phone in every country but the USA
@koolerz1569
Damn that thing has a huge ass, wish my girlfriend had the same figure.
@koolerz1569: 1. Looks really sweet.
2. I don't care if the specs are 300 mhz, or 5 ghz, It looks sweet.
3. Kinetic is the worst name they can think of. Kinect, Kin, Kinetic? Bad idea Nokia....
@RhymeMaster "Whatcha gonna do with all that junk
All that junk inside your trunk.."
@koolerz1569
Reduce the booty size on this thing by 50% and I'd hit it.
@koolerz1569
Nice design but if they don't manage to make an actual phone, but even more important, an affordable phone, then it will fail as much as most as Nokia's latest phones.
@koolerz1569
If it stands up using a magnetic force, it would have to be sitting on a metal surface. I can't remember the last time my phone was sitting on a metal surface, and having to place a special metal mat or something for it makes it a lot less useful.
@Wikimon How is he missing "rudimentary physics"? He's just shifting a weight around with an electromagnet. Doesn't sound like science fiction to me.
@blenderman345 You know it would end up being an n323 or an 9954 or something like that.
That looks really awesome.
@Pryomancer
Too fragile.
@Pryomancer They could probably get a better market with things like this and meego, while people say they have been losing their slice and symbian is old..
@spartandre217 Perhaps, but if it's made out of aluminium or even some futuristic materials (carbon nanotubes, anyone), it could be a solid design.
@Pryomancer
nanotubules LOL, you'd properly be paying out of your rear for that.
@spartandre217 Lol yeah, but who knows how cheap they'll get in the future. Everything in the future will be made out of chrome and nanotube.
@spartandre217
It isnt particularly thin, considering the thin part is only half of the phones length, so it isnt fragile either.
@newone
Drop that top part and the screen will shatter much like the iPhone's
@Pryomancer
I'd find that flip-up action useful at work, since I always have my headphones on and don't hear my phone vibrating most of the time.
@tikigawd I know if I got one I'd spend hours just flicking it down and making it pop back up.
@Pryomancer
Functionally, it wouldn't work unless they move the hump to the top and allow it flip so that the screen is upside down. If you tried holding that phone with a fat hump on the bottom, it would be incredible awkward and uncomfortable. With the hump on the top, and the phone properly balanced, it would feel nice in the hand like the Droid X.
@WAldenIV
What? Why would the phone be awkward? With the hump where it is the cg sits right at the center of your palm. The phone would be better balanced than anything else out there at the moment...
@Pryomancer
omg guys, this thing is hideous. That HTC concept looks amazing, but for the love of god, get better taste people.
@tybert7 Sleek body, full glass front, unobtrusive buttons, practical design. Yeah, it's terrible.
@spartandre217
iPhonez are too Fragile? Shattering!
@Pryomancer Sex dipped in chocolate with titanium highlights.
@tikigawd i know what you mean.....but i think the vibrate mode is intended to be felt not heard...
Im still waiting for the morphing watch
I can just imagine it springing up and the face from Scary Maze Game is there...
Awesome futuristic design
@MoonWalkerCTE It looks great for a tablet, but I don't know about a phone.
Is that your phone, or you just happy to see me?
@Steve Jobs Jr
It would be kind of akward to have an erection everytime you get a call or a text message.
@Steve Jobs Jr
Win :)
@kitsune half-erection for texts.