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Art Lebedev’s WiMAX concept phone for Scartel Russia is cool

Categories: Announcements, Devices, WiMAX
By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 at 4:22 PM
Art Lebedev designed this sleek WiMAX handset for Scartel Russia

Art Lebedev designed this sleek WiMAX handset for Scartel Russia

It’s not often we see a concept phone that actually has a chance at making the crossover from vaporware to hardware. But, that’s just what you see pictured here. The artists at Art Lebedev dreamed up this WiMAX handset concept phone for use, presumably, on Scartel’s Russian WiMAX networks in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

None of the details are set in stone, but if Art Lebedev’s concept squeaks past the big-heads with its conceptual feature-set intact, Russia’s Scartel will be blessed with a WiMAX handset sporting WiMAX connectivity, WiFi, both a front and rear-facing camera, and a class-topping 850×480 display. Unfortunately, the Art Lebedev-designed WiMAX handset, which had better take on a more tongue-friendly model name soon, sports a tri-band GSM radio that’s likely going to keep it from seeing mainstream duty in the US. But, if this little beauty manages to include the 850Mhz band as part of its spectrum support, we’d love to put hands on its ginormous touchscreen.

[Via: Pocket-lint]

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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...

  • blake

    looks like the lg touch concept.

  • phone man

    will this phone come to the US and if it does….. when and how much????