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Mozilla envisions a Seabird smartphone
A COMMUNITY PROJECT to design what a Mozilla phone could look like has popped up online and looks fantastic.
Mozilla introduced the phone design with some glee, but was still careful to distance itself from it, explaining in its blog post, "Seabird is a community-driven exploration and does not mean that Mozilla has plans to produce an OS or hardware at the moment."
The phone is the result of an open call to developers to take a concept and run with it. The challenge was taken up by established designer Billy May, who first posted a video online at the weekend, before discussing his creation in a blog post on Mozilla's pages.
At its heart, apparently, is the way that the Seabird will change the way that we interact with our mobile devices and, according to May, current phones and planned phones are not set to meet our expectations.
His phone though, is different. "The Seabird is an experiment in how users might interact with their mobile content as devices and technology advances," he wrote. "While mobile CPUs, connectivity and development platforms begin approaching that of desktops, the lagging ability to efficiently input information has grown ever more pronounced."
One feature that other firms could learn from is a removable dongle which seems to double up as a Bluetooth headset and wireless mouse clicker, but why let us explain that when May has been to design school?
"Seabird imagines how a multiple use dongle might augment the crowded gestural interface with greater precision and direct manipulation of content in 3D space." And as for the phone itself, well, its form is, um, birdlike.
"The form development took its cues from various aerodynamic, avian and decidedly feminine forms," added May. "Its erect posture intends a sense of poise while its supine conformity to the hand reconciles that with the user's desire for digital control."
This design has not only got to appeal to bird watchers, but the phone includes Pico projectors that both send the screen to a wall, for example, and also project a virtual keyboard when the phone is docked.
This again helps the concept phone jump ahead of other, actual phones, according to May, who added, "With mobile phone companies such as Samsung, LG and Motorola moving towards display applications for projectors, the technology remains open for expanding user interaction and input at the same time."
Also on board are an 8MP camera, wireless charging, mini USB, and perhaps the nicest touch of all, a built in Bluetooth headset and mouse clicker. µ
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@BB If that's the worse of it it's still a thousand times better than the competition.
As for the phone, I like the ad but it's not realistic, for instance if you project from 1 centimeter high sideways on the table you will get very poor visibility and your fingers will make shadows obscuring the entire thing.
And 2 projectors would eat more battery than even an iphone.
And an earpiece will inevitably get greasy in many instances and then using it as a pointer of plugging it back in the back of the phone becomes an issue, and having a dongle docked there would obviously also eat in the space you have available to put a whole phone and 2 projectors and optics and a huge battery.
So yeah it is nice but not feasible I expect.
Not sure what you mean, firefox generally uses about 80-120M of ram, even after 2 months it still is using the same, so either the leak is negligible or it doesn't exist in the latest stable version.
Nice concept, many nice things which should be on phones. And heck, Windows 7 desktop running on a phone, gotta love that choice Mozilla! (see above screenie from projector hehe).
Coming from Mozilla, would this "Searbird" require the user to restart his or her phone periodically because of rampant memory leaks?
Glad to see someone is seeing that a cell phone can be a multipurpose device .
Close to my original idea of a cell phone docking station that resembled a netbook or tablet and would allow for larger screen as well as a remote data storage/charger (when docked would have charger , removable additional storage medium) , charge , transfer data , surf , answer calls , when finished remove cell phone , take either or both with you .