As cellular phones become more like portable multimedia centers, the small display on the device becomes a limiting factor. To solve the issue, companies such as Inventables are developing origami cell phones with foldable display. Other companies adopt a more realistic approach: a cell phone with two displays.
The dual display concept phone, named The Polygon, is being developed by a group of design professionals called Alloy. Bearing resemblance to the Nintendo DS portable gaming system, The Polygon cell phone features a high quality upper screen to play games or videos and a lower touch screen display to navigate the menu system using a stylus.
I can see a few drawbacks to this concept phone though - dialing a number using a stylus is quite unappealing to me. The touch screen will probably end up with a few scratches, and most of the time when dialing the user won’t bother to pick up the stylus and will touch the screen directly with his fingers, leaving the screen very dirty and with even more scratches.
It is nice to see all the new innovation in the cell phone business. The Polygon cell phone brings something unique to the market that could be adopted as a standard in the mobile industry.
