05-16-2004, 09:00 PM
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Wildseed Readies Chameleon Cell Phones
"Ever get bored with the way your cell phone looks, feels, and sounds? Wildseed's youth-oriented Identity phone acquires a whole new personality by simply switching its plastic shell.
"The shell, called a SmartSkin, slides on and off a curved base unit. But unlike the plain plastic covers you can buy for other handsets, SmartSkins have an embedded chip that communicates with the phone's electronics. The chip dictates the phone's screens, ring tones, and even access to online content such as mobile blogs."
Smartphones are highly customizable, but not as user friendly as they should be. Ideas like these can make personalization an easy 1-2-3 process. Not to mention the carriers would love it, because it will be sold through the retail stores.
I would like to take this concept a step further. :idea: Why not have the keypad on the SmartSkin. Then you can go from numeric keypad to QWERTY keypad to gaming keypad. That is what I want. This way cell phone manufacturers can have two or more variations of the same model. One for regular phone users and one geared for heavy data users.
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