The BlackBerry Empathy.

Even reviewing the concept behind the design of this “crazy” phone gives me goose pimples. Gone are those days when we connect with contacts stored on our phones via calls and text messages: it is about time we started sharing the moods of our friends and relatives via the Blackberry Empathy.

The concept device was designed by Kiki Tang and Daniel Yoon for a RIM sponsored project at the Art Center College of Design.

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Nokia N9: Thanks, But No Thanks.

The Nokia N9 is surely a candidate for one of the most pleasant, fast and thoughtfully designed phones you are going to see around. There’s a lot of things to like about the N9: (bullet) the quality and responsiveness of the touch screen, the nifty ‘swiping’ features, the general look and feel of the (unibody) hardware, the navigation and ‘Drive’ applications, the curved glass, the camera quality, the way notifications work, the incoming updates river view, the lack of buttons, built-in NFC capabilities, and so on. Thumbs up Nokia!

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