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Windows Mobile concept phone is solar powered, has secondary slide-out touchscreen keyboard

By: , IntoMobile
Saturday, June 21st, 2008 at 9:23 PM

We haven’t seen too many concepts of late, but that doesn’t mean we don’t like to see what the creative minds envision the future of mobile to be. This latest mobile phone concept, the Eclipse Intuit, was dreamed up by Eddie Goh.

Goh sees a future filled with Windows Mobile devices powered by the oh-so-renewable energy source we call the “Sun.” It’s definitely interesting to see a concept powered by a currently available Windows Mobile platform, but we’d hope a device like this would be rocking some far-out mobile OS that hasn’t even been dreamed up yet.

Eclipse Intuit solar powered Windows Mobile concept phone

The main attraction is portions of the device are covered in a chemical-based solar “skin” that helps top off the battery when burning decomposed plants and animals for electricity just isn’t convenient.

Eclipse Intuit solar powered Windows Mobile concept phone

But, like all good concepts, this little sucker features some seriously cool high-end features. There’s a 5 megapixel camera, built-in software to edit and upload pics to a photo album, and not one, but two full-body touchscreens. The main touchscreen serves as a display, while a second, slide-out touchscreen panel serves as a touch-sensitive keyboard with “tactile feedback” or a secondary touchscreen display, a la Nintendo DS.

We’ll give Goh the benefit of the doubt and assume that there’s real-deal, localized haptic feedback in his Eclipse Intuit – not the pseudo-haptic, whole-device vibrating feedback nonsense that we’ve been seeing on too many handsets recently.

Eclipse Intuit solar powered Windows Mobile concept phone

All in all it’s a cool concept, and it sure would be nice to see the biggest features cross over in to the real-world. But, as it’s a concept, we’ll probably never see the Eclipse Intuit hit market.

[Via: Yanko Design]

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Will Park

Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

  • MobileRoar

    The logo for “Eclipse” looks more like “Ecupse”… maybe the slogan should be “2 E’s 1 Cups”

  • EARTH LOVER

    whatthafuckk?
    “probably never see it hit the market”????
    for all these years, people have been creating all types of gizmo shit and this one is an impossibly exceptional????!!!!!
    wake up, the earth is dying and aint no one doing anything about it????

    cmon windows