<![CDATA[io9: phone]]> http://tags.lifehacker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: phone]]> http://io9.com/tag/phone http://io9.com/tag/phone <![CDATA[Retro-Futurist Cell Phone Made From Rotary Dialer]]> Industrial designer Jin Le predicts that in five years, people will be sick of ultra-tiny mobile phones and will want to return to the rotary-dial designs of yesteryear. So she cooked up this design, of a cell phone that is nothing but a rotary dial. Yes, you really have to dial numbers — but you can use buttons to turn it on and off. Another designer's take on the circular cell phone after the jump.



Michael Lant designed this pocket-sized mobile phone gem, which looks like a cross between a digital watch and the alethiometer they use in The Golden Compass. radia_phone.jpg

Circle Phone Going Back to Simplicity [via Design Corner]

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