KDDI's au Design Project yields four phones

by Chris Ziegler, posted Nov 2nd 2006 at 11:58PM

Those crazy cats over at Japan's KDDI are back at it with another four concept handsets as part of their "au Design Project," a collaboration with various designers that's been carrying on for some time now to draw attention to their network. Coined the Infobar 2, Kaos, Cypres, and Vols (pictured), the phones aren't technically destined for production, but let's be honest: this stuff doesn't seem much more far out than garden variety Japanese mobile hardware.

[Via and for the umpteenth time...]

Filed under: Handsets, KDDI

Tags: au, cypres, design project, DesignProject, infobar 2, Infobar2, kaos, kddi, vols

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Steve @ Nov 3rd 2006 8:34AM

I hate the FCC. Can we start some sort of campaign to tell them to stop blocking technology from entering the U.S.?

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Graham Kaplan @ Nov 3rd 2006 1:11PM

I can definitely see the infobar 2 being produced, and maybe the Vols. If you look at the history of AU design project, the more normal phones generally get produced.

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Ken @ Nov 4th 2006 9:14AM

so any more info about this phone?? uses sim card? in english? etc..

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