Outlandish ideas are always created by car designers. Talking about this – why shouldn’t they do the same with smartphones?

Mobiado CPT002 Aston Martin concept phone takes a sheet of solid sapphire crystal, layers on a transparent capacitive touchscreen, the brackets it with platinum side bars containing the battery, electronics and SIM card.

So the designer brief says: actually manufacturing all this would, we fear, be a little outside the realms of what’s feasible. Still, the Android-based concept looks fantastic, and would have plenty of integration with your Aston Martin.

CPT002 would also automatically hook up to your car’s display, showing FourSquare-powered points-of-interest, parking and your friends, while cameras embedded in the car have the capability of sharing photos onto Twitter and Facebook. Stats will be recorded by the phone if the car crashes, from the airbag and other sensors.

That’s a pretty cool concept to me - what do you think?

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