Connected devices with huge 4″ and bigger displays might be all the rage in today’s smartphone market but Nokia Research is going one step further with its concept phone for the future and turning the entire device into a morphing touchscreen display. The Nokia GEM concept phone can change its appearance depending on the function you select; it becomes a camera when you want to take pictures, a map when you are lost and a game controller when you want to play. “Now, when you launch an application like the camera, your mobile phone still looks like a mobile phone, but with GEM, when you launch the camera application, the whole phone looks like a camera,” revealed Nokia Research Centre senior design manager Jarkko Saunamäki, who led the team which invented GEM. “There is no default appearance. If you play a lot of games it will usually resemble a games pad, for example,” he added. Concept phones which utilize the entire device as a display are becoming more and more popular, however; many designers are achieving this by keeping their creations transparent. Earlier this year luxury phone maker Mobiado teamed up with British luxury sports car manufacturer to create a transparent glass touchscreen smartphone called the CPT002.Designers Wenhing Chu & Kok Keong Wong previewed a futuristic transparent touch phone with twin-splitting displays on design blog Yanko Design in September.Appropriate in conjunction with the celebration of the 25th year Nokia Research Center, introduced a new handset named Nokia Gem. Previously we’ve heard the name Nokia Kinect or Nokia HumanForm, but, Gem has its own uniqueness. Nokia Gem, a mobile phone whose entire body is a touchscreen display. Users can view pictures, text or interact with the cell phone from any part, front and rear.
