Squeezable and Huggable Cellphone Design
| by Eran Abramson on February 26, 2008 in Customer Experience |
Our phones take a beating practically everyday. They may look shiny, cool, and innovative, but they cannot take a punch. We need a combination of the cool looks and durability.
Qian Jiang has designed the Soft Phone concept and at least gave us the durability part. It may not look like all the new, technologically advanced cellphones out there, but the features may be enough to intrigue customers.
The Soft phone is as it sounds: a cellphone that is made of fabric and silicon, allowing it to live through a fall or intentional drop. In fact, this phone asks you to squeeze and hug it, since it is created with that in mind. Moreover, you can make a call or hang up by the level of squeeze you give this cellphone.
In case you want more features, this cell is built within a pouch like home. It reminds me of the vehicle dashboard sun protectors. If you are familiar with the ones that are made of fabric and silicon that arrive as a small circular shape, only to unfold to a larger dashboard protector… a very space efficient product. With that, the soft phone provides such practicality: as you unfold the pouch, a qwerty keyboard is provided, along with build in earphones.
This idea may be great as a concept, but could you see yourself actually using one of these? If you would or wouldn’t, is it because of its looks, its material, or something else?
Via: Yanko Design
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Did I miss something, or would you have a rather difficult time scrolling through your phonebook?
Comment by anon — February 26th, 2008 @ 11:04 pm
the concept may be fresh and it does look okay …
but i dont think i will ever wanna use it …
sorry …
Comment by subcorpus — February 27th, 2008 @ 1:29 am
Neat product.. I’ll take 2
Comment by TheMobiBlog — February 27th, 2008 @ 1:35 am
Squeeze me… Is this for real? Just when I came to the conclusion I would never find the perfect phone. never say never. This is really cool..
Comment by Geegee — February 27th, 2008 @ 1:54 am
This is a cool phone, we should sell a million!
Comment by yakman kell — February 27th, 2008 @ 3:58 am
we would love to buy these to sell!
Comment by yakman kell — February 27th, 2008 @ 4:30 am
stupid.
Comment by commenter — February 27th, 2008 @ 5:16 am
yanko always have good concepts
Comment by Ghengis — February 27th, 2008 @ 5:43 am
Comment removed due to racist remarks. Please refer to comment #13
Comment by Anonymous — February 27th, 2008 @ 6:10 am
yeah imagine that, a phone that is only a phone… wanna email? buy a computer. but its nice to see that racism is still alive and well
Comment by Mitar — February 27th, 2008 @ 8:50 am
The phone’s got an interesting design. I wouldn’t use it, though.
@#9: That’s a clever name, did you come up with that all by yourself? You could’ve at least used used “you’re” and made your poorly spelled, non-capitalized, fragmented sentence-having bullshit rant just that much better. Well, at least you capitalized “English”.
Comment by You're — February 27th, 2008 @ 9:20 am
#11: “used used” lol
Comment by used used — February 27th, 2008 @ 9:22 am
To all our readers and visitors: although we encourage comments and feedback, we needed to remove an earlier comment due to its racist nature. We apologize if any feelings were hurt by it and hope to see you again
Comment by Eran Abramson — February 27th, 2008 @ 5:08 pm
it looks like on of those burger phones girls like.
Comment by Arun — March 4th, 2008 @ 10:35 am
welcome to www.coroflot.com/jq
Comment by JQ — March 4th, 2008 @ 4:58 pm
Hello Jiang,
Thank you for the link…post was updated.
Comment by Eran Abramson — March 4th, 2008 @ 11:08 pm