Nokia's
Aeon mobile phone at the prototype stage
The new Nokia Aeon concept phone,
with a new fuel cell, has now reached the prototype stage.
Originally spotted in October of 2006 as a fuel concept
phone, the new Nokia phone certainly looks futuristic in
design, as well as in its proposed technology.
According to both the Brettstuff
website and a Chinese website called NetEase, one of the
more intriguing aspects of the new technology is the phone's
full surface touchscreen. The phone can split itself into
two - hence, all of the electronics are compactly squeezed
into two tablet-like, modular pieces. When connected, one
tablet acts as a keypad whilst the other acts as the screen.
Since the buttons are entirely virtual, Aeon can flip instantly
between a numeric pad for dialling, a text-entry pad for
messaging or a media-player controller.
The new fuel cell, situated at the back
of both screens, runs almost the full length of the read
of the handset but with around the third of the width.
