Nokia Aeon - A Wearable Concept Phone

Nokia's Aeon is a "full surface screen" cellphone concept is one of the most futuristic phone that I've seen lately. Nokia's research and development team have kicked it up a gear with an attractive "aeon" concept phone showing up in the R&D section of the company's website about a year and half ago. The most prominent design feature of aeon is a touchscreen that stretches over the full surface area of the phone, similar to BenQ-Seimen's Black box concept phone.

A thin candybar phone, Nokia's Aeon is said to have two touch-sensitive panels mounted on a fuel-cell power pack. The complete phone is virtual and the panels can be used for voice calls/sending messages and enjoying the musical experiance from any panels. It can also merge itself into other local products using the inbuilt sensors with the complete design similar to synaptics onyx and BenQ-Siemens’s Black box, replacing the need for the complete tradional keypad. Aeon is said to be about 13.7mm thick and, oh yeah, may be priced around a cool $2,000.

Aeon concept isn't as far out as it seemed when first announced almost a year ago, but it will probably do it all by the time it's released...say in a year or two, but watch out Nokia, we might see some knock-off come out of China before that.

And when I say China, actually there is a surprise for all of those who have been eagerly awaiting the dual-touch display of the Nokia AEON. You might be either frustrated or excited to know that a clone device is already available in China called The GF-W168, which is said to be designed to resemble the AEON device and probably launched in November 2o07.

The GF-W168 (Dual sim mobile phone +bluetooth mobile phone +mp3 mobilel phone + MP4 mobile phone+Camera mobile phone ) features the similar dual touch feature of the Nokia device, with the keypad nixed for a touch interface. Sporting a 3 MP camera, 2.2 ' TFT screen, 3D stereo music, Bluetooth, a media player, dual band GSM (900/1800 MHz), and support for 3GP and MP4 video formats, the clone device matches much of what the AEON would offer.

More on the GF-W168 here including specs, additional features, etc. etc. for all of those who are interested in it. Well, close enough to the real thing, but still not the same...I suppose.