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Its almost an unspoken truth that save for a few handsets, most cell phones tend to be rather ugly.  It can be rather frustrating when new phones with decent features, specs and OS come out with ugly or just bland design.  It’s easy to point to the iPhone as a well designed phone, and maybe a few others, which is why concept phones can sometimes be depressing since they may never make it to market.

The latest interesting concept phone, from designer Jaren Goh is the Sony Black Tribute.  There’s nothing indicating that this design was actually made for Sony, or if Goh just decided to give it a Sony look.  The design is rather nice, with an all aluminum casing, a 3.2 MP camera and a wide touch screen.  The phone design has a lot of hard lines and smooth surfaces, unlike the iPhone’s curved back.  It gives the phone a sturdier and more professional look.  The GUI looks very Sony-esque with a lot of unused black/blue gradient space and clean graphics.

Concept phones always seem to bring about a strange mixture of awe and depression.  The design tends to be rather interesting that would be nice to actually hold.  However, there’s always only a small chance the phone would actually ever make it to market.  With the Sony Black Tribute it would be nice to see it make the trip to market, though maybe from a different company.  I know I wouldn’t mind seeing a phone with that design carrying Android, which Sony doesn’t seem to be all to up on.

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