Concept Android phone features OLED buttons

(Credit: Coroflot/Tryi Yeh)

(Credit: Coroflot/Tryi Yeh)

Here's a concept phone based on the Google Android OS. Designed by Tryi Yeh from Taiwan, the Google-G0 is a touch-screen phone with a slider.

There doesn't appear to be a keyboard under it, but sliding it does reveal a camera at the back and large buttons in front. These buttons appear to be little OLED screens that change symbols according to what you are doing on the phone at any point in time, not unlike the expensive Optimus Maximus keyboard from Art Lebedev. There's even a docking station with a huge screen for use at home.

It's a beautiful concept and has features unlikely to appear in a real mobile phone for years to come. But we sure hope a manufacturer will pick up some ideas from this.

(Source: Crave Asia via Dvice)

[RitoMan]

Just wondering how big this thing actually is. Looks nice though.

[Slick1of2]

I'm not understanding this concept. What purpose does the slide out have, and is it just me, or does this thing look like a brick? I like the idea that you can connect it to a bigger screen though. I have always thought that every single device we have should have the ability to connect to any other device. If I want to hook my phone to the television/monitor, I should be able to. It should all be wireless at this point...well that's what I think.

[wavjockey]

It's just you...unless you think the iPhone looks like a brick.

This phone represents what the iPhone MUST evolve to-and soon.

Touch-screen phones need to have a real landscaped QWERTY keyboard.
Also, the screen should go edge-to-edge with the earpiece/mouthpiece hidden underneath inconspicuous holes in the surface.

[LAR Games]

This looks cool.