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Research In Motion is a serious company that makes serious smartphones. But a RIM-sponsored design competition aimed at creating phones that integrate human emotions with social networking has produced a concept device that looks nuttier than squirrel droppings: the Blackberry Empathy.

The Empathy is an angular phone that looks absolutely stunning--and a tad bonkers. Its front is home to an OLED touch screen that's transparent when not in use, and opaque at other times. It wouldn't be a proper BlackBerry without a physical keyboard, but the Empathy's is located on its back.

Read more of "BlackBerry Empathy concept phone gets us all emotional" at Crave UK.
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I'd love a phone with that type of user interface.
Take a black slab that looks like a scaled down monolith, a OMLED (or whatever) thouchscreen, and a user interface where the background and nonimportant ui elements are not lit, and I'd see the future.
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What's the deal with their "testers". Are thumb rings part of the RIM employee dress code?

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What's the deal with their "testers". Are thumb rings part of the RIM employee dress code?

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That ring is actually vital to the operation of the Empathy. without it, some of the core features do not work.
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What's the deal with their "testers". Are thumb rings part of the RIM employee dress code?

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lol its not a ring...take a good look at it =]
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Looks like the bad guys phone from Krypton on Smallville or some kind of crystal type thing or something?! Who knows? How much does it cost and does it work?
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that, is horrible
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What's the deal with their "testers". Are thumb rings part of the RIM employee dress code?

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That's not a Thumb Ring, it's the antenna; we don't want any "antennagate" at RIM!
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Looks like the bad guys phone from Krypton on Smallville or some kind of crystal type thing or something?! Who knows? How much does it cost and does it work?
not much is know about it at the moment =[
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I honestly think this desgin is awful, and the buttons seem too small, it would prob catch my eye if it was a touch screen... But if not then nooo, sorry :s

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I honestly think this desgin is awful, and the buttons seem too small, it would prob catch my eye if it was a touch screen... But if not then nooo, sorry :s

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the backside is where the qwerty keyboard is the front side is touch
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reminds me of Superman 2.
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Gotta say this looks awesome... but what astounds me is:

Why do we have specs (yes, i know they are concept specs, but specs none-the-less) and pictures of a phone like this that will probably not be released (at least not in the near future), yet we nave next to nothing on the BB Storm3 or any other QNX (or even OS6) powered devices set to come out early-mid next year...
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Sleek phone
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Looks interesting
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