New Flip Phone concept is a camera first and foremost

A student on the Product Design Forums has come up with a cool concept phone that is a camera first and foremost but also has the features of a mobile phone.

The handset is probably a bit big thanks to the large battery. Its interesting from a consumers point of view to see what the process of designing a phone actually is.

Here is what the designer had to say:

I wound up with a very very feasible product (I purposely built it a LITTLE big just for the sake of detail) that does not require any future voodoo technology. Given 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, so that’s doable also.

I dislike the Motorola ROKR microSD storage solution, regular SD cards are pretty dang small anyway, and they’re getting pretty great storage capacities now. There’d probably even be room for two cards, but that’d be weird. I dislike camera phones because they’re primarily cell phones with a camera tacked onto them. They’re getting better, but the lack of real camera capabilities makes them a joke to me, I don’t see the point in them. They take ass pictures that you can’t print, and the res is so bad it looks horrid on your computer.

So, I first and foremost set out to think the other way…. start with a camera, and how could i make it into a phone. Flipping it around worked great. If it were to go into production one side would have small magnets inside it that would make it pleasantly ’stick’ to the otherside, so it wouldn’t be all floppy/willy nilly.

Concept phone