Apple started a smartphone revolution with the introduction of the original iPhone in 2007, but despite the rise of high-powered phones, people in Japan are still clinging to their flip phones.
The closest Apple ever got to making a flip phone was the disastrous Rokr the company developed in partnership with Motorola, so concept designer Martin Hajek decided to reimagine what it would look like if Apple made a flip phone just for the Japanese market. The concept Apple flip phone comes with two screens — one for typing and another for content — as well as an obligatory lanyard and three color options.
Take a closer look:
I see just one major flaw with this design, which is that the homebutton is at the top of the iPhone instead of the bottom, where you hand will be holding it. The top screen is also impossibly thin, but the overall form factor is so small, it’d be a joy to carry this thing around in your pocket instead of the fatty iPhone 6 Plus.
Source: Martin Hajek
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
5 responses to “If Apple made a flip phone, it’d look something like this”
Oh no. That looks rather un-Apple. I can’t imagine them doing a flip phone in the first place for several reasons but if they did they would certainly not have a bezel that size around the top screen. The main problem would be the battery life, however, since the screen is one of the main power sinks and this concept has 3 of them! Agree with you about the home button placement though.
I would buy the shit out of an Apple flip phone. I miss my flip-phone so bad every day if only because I never had to buy and apply a damn screen protector that keeps trapping dust underneath itself!
I do prefer a flip-phone for a variety of reason, so it would be a welcomed option.
I really hope in God’s name that this never happen. Steve Jobs would die again.
No, no it wouldn’t.