When I think about open source company Mozilla paired with design concepts, I see images of fantastic web browser interfaces–the idea behind the company’s Concept Series. But designer Billy May has taken the user interface to the mobile phone, open sourcing the design and development of the Mozilla Phone, or MozPhone for short.
His current mockup combines Art Lebedev’s Optimus Keyboard with the Blackberry 7130, resulting in the OLED Blackberry. OLED is an organic LED touchscreen that features higher resolution, contrast, and energy efficiency than other types of displays.
May says that one of the key design flaws holding back the potential of mobile devices is, in essence, the size. So how can every millimeter of a mobile device serve as an input and output to the user?
Some of the questions May will attempt to answer with the MozPhone are:
- What will make it a Mozilla Phone?
- How can every square millimeter of a phone both input and output information to the user?
- How can our buttons, screens, speakers and trackballs communicate to more of our senses?
- How about a volume wheel that gets harder to turn the louder it goes?
And he wants input from folks like us. He’s set up a blog called The Open Web Phone where he accepts ideas and suggestions. Go to it!
There’s more pictures after the cut!
via core77
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