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Three more cool looking cell phones from Red Dot Design Awards 2008!
PP3400 is a personal digital assistant with a honorable mention at this year’s Red Dot edition, which was received for the overall smart design allowing the user to operate the phone’s applications and to navigate using just the thumb. It has large keys and convex-shaped with transparent backlight for low light conditions.

It’s a creation of Wang-Hung Yeh, Cheng-Chi Cheng, Yi-Hsi Chiu and Chung-Yu Liu from Mobinnova Interactive Design Center from Taoyuan City, Taiwan.
We can’t provide you more information about the model because the company’s website is under construction, but in the mean time we could take a look at the second cell phone i want to show you today.

LG’s LH5000 aka LG Ice Cream is a clamshell with simple design lines, 3D patterns and a white-metallic finish, measuring 100.9 x 50.9 x 13.6 mm at a weight of 101 grams. Inside it has a built-in 2MP camera, 3G, secondary video call camera, sporting a 2.2-inch TFT display of 262K colors and a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. Users can send emails, browse the Internet, check dictionaries, or talk on the phone for up to 2.5 hours until they’ll have to recharge the battery.



It is available in South Korea at around $450 together with the cool blue and cool pink versions.

U8600 is a personal digital assistant optimized for Internet navigation, made by Huawei Technologies from Shenzhen, China. It measures just 13 mm thick but features high-speed HDSPA transfer rates and a large 3-inch WVGA display with touchscreen. The input methods are finger touch or stylus.



In addition it comes with accelerometer technology so that when you rotate it you can see and scroll full web pages in the landscape mode.
The built-in 3MP camera with autofocus capture sharp images at high-resolutions and you can send them wirelessly through Bluetooth.

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Here are the first 3 cool looking cell phones from the German Red Dot Awards 2008. I will leave aside the other models that are already popular, as i prefer to show you only the new devices, which are not well known by most of us.

At this year’s Red Dot Designs Awards edition, Qisda’s design concept received a honorable mention for its QCM-131 PDA phone model, optimized for easiest surfing, with a large 2.6-inch touch-sensitive display, an intuitive user interface, and 3.5G high data transfer speeds.
Qisda Corporation from Taipei, Taiwan, is one of the top 5 of manufacturers in LCD monitors, projectors, and multi functional printers, using advanced technologies like surface-mount technology , metal stamping, plastic injection, and LCD module assembling.



Another design that has received a honorable mention is SoftBank 814T, a cool cell phone model with metallic finish, lightweight at 97 grams and made of stable titanium. It sports a 2.4-inch QVGA LCD display preventing diffuse reflexions. The 12.9mm flip handset was developed by Toshiba Japan and designed by Setsu Hirokawa and Ai Matsui, featuring a built-in 1.96MP camera with autofocus, full web browsing, large and highly responsive keys, and security functions such as face recognition.

Other characteristics include built-in electronic dictionary, microSD memory expansion slot, quick news access, QR Code Reader, graphic email support, video calling, and multimedia player.
It provides 160 minutes of talk time and 420 hours of standby.



Huawei Technologies from Shenzhen, China, received the honorable mention at Red Dot Product Design 2008 for the U1310 cell phone, a bar handset model coming in silver, sporting a 3D compact keypad, a 2.2-inch QVGA TFT display, and instant access keys for music functions.

The U1310 is a UMTS 2100MHz model supporting GPRS/GSM 900/1800/1900MHz bands, and featuring dual cameras for 2MP pictures and 0.3MP video calls, multimedia player, microSD memory expansion slot, 3.5 mm earphone jack, video streaming, RSS reader, chat capability, Bluetooth with A2DP profile, USB 2.0 full speed modem, Plug and Play capability, as well as support for email and web browsing via WAP. Users can compose text messages while listening to the music in the background.