The tech to create the phone shown in that mock-up would be too bleeding edge for a conservative company like RIM to use. Too much risk. Unless they feel confident enough to take high risks on the Storm platform and rely on their huge base of hard-key devices to keep cash flowing...
As far as shrinking the electronics to that form factor, it would be tight, and would run warm, but is probably possible. The active circuitry in the Storm 2 only takes up about 25-30% of the space in the case. The rest is the Surepress mechanism, battery, memory card socket, and speaker.
The Storm 2's chipset is rather old now (it's pretty much the same as the Storm 1 with the addition of flash ram and a wifi radio). I would imagine that some of the individual chips are now available as a smaller single chip design.
Cool concept though. We'll see real world devices like that become more widespread in another year or two, but not from RIM. HTC or Sony or someone whos creative juices havent dried up like death valley.
It is funny, they are selling the octagon theme on that rendering. That is the purpose for the whole page. Funny stuff!
Elecite's attempts at innovative marketing are often just cheesy hype.
They also claimed to have a breakthrough technology so you could assemble your own custom theme online. In fact, it was just a series of pages that guided you through several choices, like fonts and icon sets, and finally led to a pre assembled theme with your choices.
Maybe they subscribe to the theory that ANY publicity is good publicity; this ad certainly got them lots of attention. However, some of us are so impressed with their pattern of over-inflated hype that we don't even bother to look at their new "breakthroughs."
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