Will the real iPhone please stand up?

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No, it's not the iPhone; it just looks like one. Fashion designer Prada and LG Electronics announced on Thursday what they call the world's first completely touch-screen mobile phone to come to market.

The Prada Phone (LG KE850) features an "advanced touch interface," ringtones, preloaded content, mobile phone accessories and a leather case, all jointly designed by Prada and LG. It also comes with a 2-megapixel camera, MP3 player, video player, document viewer, music/messaging multitasking capability, Bluetooth and USB 2.0 port. The superthin phone comes in at 12 mm thick.

Apple's iPhone may have grabbed more headlines, but it's still some five months from hitting store shelves. The Prada phone is scheduled to be available in the U.K., France, Germany and Italy in late February, and in a few Asian countries (Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore) in March. It won't be cheap though. Prices will start at $776.

 

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Synaptics showed off its Onyx concept phone--which also features a touch screen--at the Consumer Electronics Show. The phone is shaped like a remote, and the company says it would integrate GPS, music, teleconferencing and calendar events. The screen, which Synaptics calls the ClearPad, takes up nearly the whole handset and rids the phone of all those pesky buttons. Information can be entered into the Onyx concept phone with two fingers, or via text entry.

 

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Bloggers were quick to spot a "full-surface screen" concept phone that quietly appeared on the research and development section of Nokia's Web site. To date, the company hasn't announced any details about what the phone might actually do, but it sure does look purty.

 

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This is a close-up of the Apple phone, which among other things has iPod, camera and wireless Internet functionality.

 

[lasanka]

wow these are amazing.. but im not too fond of the touch screen concept.. means extra fragility.. not a gud thing1

 

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Of course, there is an actual iPhone already on the market. This VoIP phone by Cisco's Linksys division has been around--under the iPhone moniker--since early last year. Last month, Linksys expanded the iPhone family with additional products.

The phone is the basis of a lawsuit filed by Cisco that charges Apple with infringing on its iPhone trademark. Cisco obtained the trademark in 2000 when it acquired Infogear, a small Redwood City, Calif., start-up that developed consumer devices that allowed people to easily access the Internet without a PC.

But Cisco's isn't the only iPhone on the block. A British company called Orate Telecommunications Services also offers a VoIP phone called an iPhone, and a San Jose, Calif., company called Teledex offers an iPhone for hotel rooms.

 

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Isamu Sanada has built a name for himself creating beautiful--and sometimes prophetic--designs of fantasy Apple products. Here is Sanada's take on the "iPhone," posted to his Web site months ago, long before Apple's actual design saw the light of day.

 

[lasanka]

awesome phones ban! i seriously dunno where u get these from but theyre awesome!

 

[zCexVe]

these r gr8..no keypads,just da screen..

 

[kawomir25]

nice.........

 

[lasanka]

nice.........

u like phones.. hmmm this is guid news!

 

[kawomir25]

u like phones.. hmmm this is guid news!

gud news........Y????

 

[lasanka]

gud news........Y????

heheh coz i like em too!

 

[kawomir25]

heheh coz i like em too!

cool, i seeing thinhs in common, lolzzzzzzz

 

[lasanka]

cool, i seeing thinhs in common, lolzzzzzzz

uh huh.. u think abt that thing ah!

 

[kawomir25]

uh huh.. u think abt that thing ah!

lolz, it was jus a thought

 

[lasanka]

lolz, it was jus a thought

well u knw what im askin u to think abt heheheh

 

[kawomir25]

well u knw what im askin u to think abt heheheh

hahaha i kno i kno

 

[lasanka]

hahaha i kno i kno

gud gud.. theres a certain degree of seriousness u knw lol!

 

[kawomir25]

gud gud.. theres a certain degree of seriousness u knw lol!

hahaha yes