On the Product Design Forums a student has come up with a concept phone that is both a camera first and also has the features of a mobile phone.

The handset is perhaps a bit big due to the large battery. Consumers are interested in it to see what the process of designing a phone actually is.

Here are the words the designer had to say:

I wound up with extremely feasible product (I built it a LITTLE big just for the sake of detail) that requires no future voodoo technology. Having the large volume of the battery pack, it should have fantastic battery life, and I left plenty of room for the camera lense and mechanism, thus it is doable too.

I do not like the Motorola ROKR microSD storage solution, regular SD cards are too dang small and they’re getting great storage capacities now. There would even be room for two cards, but it would be weird. I do not like camera phones as they’re primarily cell phones with a camera tacked onto them. Actually, they’re getting better, but the lack of real camera capabilities makes them a joke to me, I don’t see any sense in them. They take ass pictures which cannot be printed, and the res is so bad it looks horrid on your computer.

Thus I primarily set out to think the other way…. start with a camera, and how could I make it into a phone. To flip it around worked successfully. If it were to be produced one side would have small magnets inside it that would make it pleasantly “stick” to the other side, so it wouldn’t be floppy/willy nilly.

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