Nokia 8800 Sirocco Phone

Inspired by nature, and one of its most beautiful elements, gold, Nokia today unveiled the Nokia 8800 Sirocco Gold – a bold and prestigious new style statement. Encased in a luxurious 18-carat gold plating, the precisely crafted Nokia 8800 Sirocco Gold combines timeless design with a contemporary flair, resulting in an exclusive display of personal style and elegance. The Nokia 8800 Sirocco Gold is now available in select markets, with an estimated retail price of EUR 1000, before taxes or subsidies.

A smooth sliding mechanism reveals a high-resolution camera (2 Megapixel) and the intuitive and ergonomic keypad. Further “inner beauty” highlights of the Nokia 8800 Sirocco Gold include a stunning color screen (up to 262K colors), and a wide array of messaging functionalities. The elegance of the Nokia 8800 Sirocco Gold is also complemented by a coordinating desk stand and color-matching Bluetooth headset.

What Causes Nokia Erections!

It’s not a hot-blonde-Sony or gorgeous Apples, but plain simple laws of physics that causes this Nokia to get an erection! The physical kind! I mean the Kinetic kind! The concept is this, for every incoming call, text, email or alarm, the phone gets super excited and gets…standing tall! Yup the brief was to make the phone as playful as possible…as if a vibration mode was not enough! And if it’s not the right person calling or the alarm too soon…simply tap the phone back to deflate the …erection! Umm…cold shower won’t do!

On a more serious note, here’s more info on the Nokia Kinetic – a seriously playful mobile phone for 2012. The reason behind the erection is an electromagnet in the base of the phone that allows a weight to be shifted, causing the phone to stand up. Digital information gets converted into kinetic movement!

Other features include:

• Camera capture button at bottom right of phone means you grip the phone like an SLR camera when taking a photo.
• Standby mode is perfectly balanced; Screen is raised from the surface.
• Top half is 8mm in thickness with bottom being 18mm.
• The shape and weight at the bottom of the phone mean ergonomically it is much better to hold than other phones.
• 2 taps on power button allows you to manually set stand up mode. (For a clock on your desk, a digital photoframe, or to play music).
• Proximity sensor on front of the phone, means that the stand up feature does not activate when in your pocket.

This is a student project done for Nokia at Central Saint Martins Collge of Art & Design

Design Tutor: Silas Grant

Eco-Friendly Nokia Phone Empowered With Bio Battery

The concept green phone has specially been designed for Nokia as an alternative power source of expensive and valuable resource consuming batteries that are hard to disposal and damaging to the environment. The key objective of the concept is to replace traditional batteries with bio battery to create a phone that helps keeping the environment free from pollution. The ecologically friendly bio battery generates electricity from carbohydrates or sugar by utilizing enzymes as the mechanism. The bio battery requires just a pack of sugary drink and produces water and oxygen as the battery runs out. On a single charge, the bio battery can keep the phone live over three times longer than conventional lithium batteries and is completely recyclable.

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