This is a direct variation of the iPhone concept combined with the nintendo DS, I do not see anything original about it at all. Though I would reccomend the student to keep designing but stick more to original concepts. Good luck in the future.

Love,
Fake Steve Jobs

I found a fake username to this site only to say this: Utter bullshit. There is no way that you can convince me that this desing is any good. The only good thing about it is the PS skill. Cheers, you can work with layer when you're 15!OMGOMG. And I'm not jelaous, I'm pissed that you bloggers have no clue what you're talking about.

I think the kid did a great job and whoever posted these 2 comments (donclarkatlanta) is probably a jelaous 15 year old spoiled brat who gets all his money from his parrents and can't appreciate talented young people. My 2 cents.

I did what the first two people did and used an already registered username from bugmenot.com (who registers to post in blogs these days?)

Anyway the reason I did is I had to address the balance. The idiots who initially posted using this account obviously don't know the design business and are probably just jealous.

The designs (albeit just concept at the moment) shows the designer to have an eye for the modern and understands where convergence technology is going.

Well done kid, if you are reading this, don't take any notice of the fools who were knocking you. Take it from someone in the industry, you show a lot of talent for someone as young as you are.

Good luck with it.

And to the petty minded, it's all to easy to knock other people's work when you have no ability to do your own, isn't it?

Wow that is quite a design! I think that it looks even cooler than the iPhone! Funny how the first commenters bashed it for looking like a ds. I guess anything that flips open does huh?

"I found a fake username to this site only to say this: Utter bullshit. There is no way that you can convince me that this desing is any good. The only good thing about it is the PS skill. Cheers, you can work with layer when you're 15!OMGOMG. And I'm not jelaous, I'm pissed that you bloggers have no clue what you're talking about."

you are a complete moron. How did you manage to use a computer to post that comment? And you ARE "jelaous" its quite obvious. You are the real life
Eric Cartman.

Hey look, this username is actually on bugmenot.
I changed the password so no one will use it anymore...

http://www.samsung.com/Products/MP3Player/MP3Player/YP_K5JQBXAA.asp?page=Specifications

Looks a little bit like the Samsung Mp3 player that's been on sale in various retailers for years. A product I remember think would be an interest idea for a phone.

Still for a 15 your old the photoshop is fantastic. Makes my want to play with photoshop some more.

I'm confused. Did the kid just come up with the basic "concept" for the phone and work with a marketing agency as part of a school project? Or do we have a very creative upcoming Photoshop wizard?

Who is ASK or AZK DESIGN? Maybe it's his father's company. Maybe it's a marketing ploy for them...

http://www.designquote.net/profile/4305/

It's not clear.

Wow! This kid is talented. Andrew Kim, if you are reading this, the only thing I would say that you should change would be the shape of it. I think it looks a bit too bulky, especially in the closed posistion. Try making it maybe a little bit more slimmer and the edges round, not just a straight diagonal edge. But besides that, I think it is a great concept. You have some incredible skills, both in graphic design and actual technical phone-designing skills. Kepp up the work. Promote your design more and who knows, maybe one day, somebody important will possibly make some deals with you, like actually put your design into reality or something like that. Always think of ways to improve your already amazing work, Just remember that.

Gorgeous, and what kills me is that he had the follow-thru to build a spec. I wish my adult clients were this savvy. Found this on
feedmashr.com

Well, after all the comments before me, I felt the need to give my 2 cents.
It's very possible the kid did not do this on photoshop. There are a billion CAD design programs which the kid could have used to create these models and pictures.
The design itself is, I think, very questionable. The device is very bulky,the size of the screen is essentially OTT - why would you need a rectangular screen that's so long? Maybe if this was a smartphone, similar to the 9000 Nokia series, but it's a concept for something else.
Having called it a 'social networking device' is a decent move as it's evidently not meant to be an 'normal' mobile phone. It's easy enough to design these things on paper, but producing it would be a different matter all together. A lot of what it in the specs and plans here wouldn't be viable if the phone was to reach it's target audience. Too bulky, too 'square', not 'hip' or 'cool' enough for the average school kid.
The guy before me who said this was outstanding for a kid of 15...I suggest you go visit a few schools and inform yourself. At least a dozen of the people in my design class in high school could produce concepts as good as, if not better than this. If they couldn't, I'd question them being on the course.
It's a good start though, and with some work, could be brilliant, but as it stands, it's very sub-par.
Dan x
p.s: just so everyone isn't somewhat mad at me for giving this phone the thumbs down (as those before me seem to be), if you'd like to email me, feel free. spooky2k2@yahoo.co.uk.

Nice and pretty. I'd definitely check it out at the store. Touch screens have one problem. You have to look at them in order to use them. If you want a media player type crossover it would be nice to have at least a couple buttons (play/pause, skip, off-hook) that are big and obvious enough that your fingers can find them when you reach into your pocket, but which don't stick out so far that your wallet or whatever can push them for you as you hike.

Personally I really love this design. Not just the casing but also the user interface.

For the people with rude comments well to each there own. But why does a design have to be slim with round corners, must it follow the web 2.0 look? I personally like that he broke out of the round slim look.

And if a product design is white why must it be a knock off of DS or Apple? Do they have a trademark on the color white now? And oh my gosh, he used PS� like who hasn�t used Photoshop for design comps.

And for the screen size, why would you say it is OTT? Must every screen be square. And at spooky2k2(dan) for you to say the design is sub-par and that you would expect better. I really really hope you are not teaching high school level design. I have seen college level and professionals do worse design then this.

This IS a good start and almost everything can be refined. Look at most phones and product design that is out there now and tell me they are all better then this. Matter fact post some design concepts from your high school design class.

I would buy one and be happy to show it off.

The thing with comments on blog sites and comments about people�s skills or talent, there seem to be to much poor criticism. If there is something that you do not like about someone else�s ideas then express creative suggestions but to slam someone because it makes you feel better is just wasted space, time and energy�

I am amazed and humbled by the design and the finesse of the detail within the form, proportions and graphics, especially from someone so young. Contrary to the outright jealous posts here before, this is excellent work and shows an understanding that should be greatly encouraged. Andrew, you should look at a design career. Thank you for your efforts and keep dreaming.
By the way, I am a design professional of 30 years for everything from cars to motorcycles and even the old BattleStar Galactica ride at Universal Studios in Studio City. Trust me when I say this guy gets it.

Its not the fact that people are jealous, its the fact that it isn't original in ANY way. Its a combination of already used ideas: Oh a white dual screened phone. It sounds like a ds, with a phone, and a psp os. I'd be nice to have, but i would want something revolutionary. I dont wanna pay a crap load of money for normal things mixed together.

I'm an optimist, I think it's a cool idea.

I have all kinds of things to say for those who didn't appreciate this idea. But I can't teach a person to think beyond my words. Either you get it, or you can flame me too!

And why is it so important to make a device unique in every way imaginable? A device meant to be used by a human, should be designed to work well with the shape of a persons hand, to be understandable with a general social ideal. If a previous design came close in pursuit of the ideals of a true engineer, then that should be accepted as a base for the next thing.

I am sorry, but I must say that if you are hurt that this kids idea looks like something you got bored with already, then you are just another consumer who only want's something to look different. And you probably would buy that stupid hammer that never fits right in your hand simply because it was chrome-plated!

The main reason I'm even posting here is that I recently asked a question that nobody could answer. I would like to see a device that has never yet been built. But I never drew pretty pictures of it, and I haven't looked up the specs on all the components it would need.

So in my own way, I can appreciate the yearning inherent behind the Butterfly Phone. This was designed to perform, to fulfill a desire for having something work the way it should. And what makes that really nice, is the use of realistic technologies, not the easy-out 'yet-to-be-invented' solutions. I repeat: to design something today with what is now at hand, is at the very least, exercising the ability to design tomorrow with what will exist then.

Who knows? Maybe one day this kid will wind up designing the stuff that actually gets built, while the rest of us only dream about it.

You hope i'm not teaching it? Surely if i find this sub-par and would love to aid the kid that developed it in refining his idea further and making it into a working concept - that's better than the 'make do' attitude so many people have.
As i said, it's a good start, but the praises everyone are unjustified fr this device. The kid could be a great designer in a few years time, but right now, this design isn't too hot.
Dan x

Superb job on the design, I would agree with those that say this is a superb idea. Most of you haven;'t noticed that even if it combines together a DS with a PSP OS and a camera phone, people would still pay plenty for this phone, simply because they have 3 components in one, but as it is, it isn't a copy of the DS case if it was it'd open up like a book basically, have a bunch of buttons on it, and be about 3" x 6" x .5" which it evidently isn't. The technology involved in this is all out on the market today, it would end up being rather inexpensive in reality because there are many phones like this with the same technologies used different ways that cost less than 250$ for a smart phone with wifi, a camera, and the OS built in this is extremely inexpensive, the iphone itself which has some of those things is selling for 600 dollars if not more at this point? Stop bashing on people's ideas and learn that what teenagers and people in general want is a single electronic that does everything for them, which this does. If one of these were taken into a high school I would say that most of the teenagers would agree and purchase this, simply because it does all the thing they want, except it misses a real keyboard instead of a digital one.