LG's multitouch concept, complete with alien powers

John Chan | Oct 31, 2007

Everyone seems to be jumping on the touchscreen bandwagon after the iPhone. There’s of course the HTC Touch, Nokia’s recently announced touchscreen version of its Series60 interface, and now, it seems that LG's in on it too. The picture here shows a concept design of the LG Touch, a mobile phone/PDA with an equally cool-looking docking station.

Like the Prada phone from the same company, this concept phone has no noticeable protrusions, which makes it look like a small monolith. It will come with a secondary LCD along its top edge that displays essential information like new message alerts--a somewhat unnecessary addition, though it looks admittedly quite cool. The docking station not only lets you sync and charge, but displays a virtual keyboard for data entry.

For some reason, this concept device has green lights running around the handset. Even the wire on the headset is not spared from the neon invasion. It's as if Kryptonite has been pumped into the handset for power--Superman should steer clear and go for a Samsung instead. All in all, it's a very pretty concept, though we don't see anything really useful or groundbreaking about the ideas. As Apple has clearly shown, anyone can make something look good, but interface design is where the hook is.

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