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Aston Martin teams with Mobiado for transparent touchscreen concept phone

Aston Martin teams with Mobiado for transparent touchscreen concept phone
The transparent CPT002 Aston Martin Concept Phone from Mobiado
The transparent CPT002 Aston Martin Concept Phone from Mobiado
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The transparent CPT002 Aston Martin Concept Phone from Mobiado
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The transparent CPT002 Aston Martin Concept Phone from Mobiado
A look at Mobiado's upcoming Aston Martin range of mobile phones
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A look at Mobiado's upcoming Aston Martin range of mobile phones
The transparent CPT002 Aston Martin Concept Phone from Mobiado
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The transparent CPT002 Aston Martin Concept Phone from Mobiado
The transparent CPT002 Aston Martin Concept Phone from Mobiado
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The transparent CPT002 Aston Martin Concept Phone from Mobiado
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The transparent CPT002 Aston Martin Concept Phone from Mobiado
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British car maker Aston Martin is looking to leverage its luxury brand into the world of consumer electronics by teaming up with Canadian mobile phone manufacturer Mobiado to produce a line of high-end handsets to be launched in May of this year. Until then, the company has provided a tantalizing peek at possible future designs with the CPT002 Aston Martin Concept Phone that takes the 'slab of glass' design of many current smartphones to the next level. With a solid sapphire crystal capacitive touchscreen, the CPT002 is completely transparent.

To allow the screen of the CPT002 to be transparent, Mobiado has incorporated the battery, electronics and SIM card into the sides of the device, which are crafted from platinum. The only things blocking the view when looking through the phone when it's in standby are the Aston Martin and Mobiado logos, what appear to be battery and signal strength indicators along the top and a series of dots along the bottom that appear similar to the dots on the iPhone that let you know which screen you're on – although it's not 'clear' whether that's actually what they are.

A transparent touchscreen has already popped up on LG's GD900 mobile phone, but only in the form of a touchpad that displays the phone's number pad. Unfortunately, we're going to have to wait a bit longer for a phone with a transparent full touchscreen display with Mobiado's upcoming range not sporting a phone with such a design. However, other features of the CPT002 Concept Phone that are designed to integrate with an Aston Martin vehicle are more of a possibility.

The transparent CPT002 Aston Martin Concept Phone from Mobiado
The transparent CPT002 Aston Martin Concept Phone from Mobiado

Firstly, the phone would act as a key for your Aston Martin, automatically unlocking the doors as you approach and connecting directly to the car display without the need to pull it from your pocket. The phone also uses the vehicle's GPS to show your current location on FourSquare, with the car's display also showing the location of friends and venues of interest.

The social networking features continue with the ability to set cameras integrated into the vehicle to periodically take happy snaps and video that can be uploaded with information about passing cities and landmarks to Twitter and FaceBook – perfect for making your friends green with envy over the exotic locales you're visiting in your luxury automobile.

Mobiado also makes use of the CPT002's accelerometer in an innovative way. In the event of an accident, accelerometer information from the phone sitting in the driver's pocket is transmitted to the car to provide information about the driver's movement from within the car seat to allow for more effective deployment of safety features such as airbag sequence, timing and seatbelt stiffening.

Whether any of these features will appear in Mobiado's upcoming Aston Martin range or whether the collaboration will simply result in phones with the usual feature set with an Aston Martin logo emblazoned across them remains to be seen. All will be revealed in May when Mobiado launches its Aston Martin range.

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agulesin
\"In the event of an accident, accelerometer information from the phone sitting in the driver\'s pocket is transmitted to the car...\" it would be more useful transmitting the location of the accident via the cellular network to the emergency services... Maybe the phone could also transmit the condition of the driver together with accident information - injured/trapped/deceased in order forthose attending the accident to be fully prepared... :-|
alcalde
Forget it, agulesin. In this day and age, upon detecting an accident the phone will probably update the owner\'s Facebook status to \"injured\", \"trapped\" or \"deceased\" instead as well as setting their spouse\'s relationship status to \"single\" automatically if required.
Cristobal
Hello
Where I can buy online this mobile phone?? This mobile phone can use in Europa - EEUU and America??
Thanks.!!