The tech team over at the Sydney Morning Herald posted an interesting editorial on innovation in mobile phones. They point to Neonode, who showed off a new phone design back in 2002 by painting a carved block of wood with an image that will seem very familiar these days: a compact phone dominated by a touch screen.
Six years later the Neonode N2 (pictured at left) is doing very well in European markets. The few dozen employees at Neonode make a startling contrast to the hundreds of people and billions of dollars that are used by the big names in the industry like Sony Ericsson and Nokia. Thought not directly gaming related, many of the innovations mentioned in the article could be used. Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo, for instance, created a phone with a pedometer, body fat scale, and bad breath indicator. If you can cram all that into a mobile phone, it’s interesting to consider what else could fit, and how it could be used for gaming…
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