iPhone concept device

If you, gentle reader, have not had the pleasure of the company of the real\-life jurgen dot ca, you will not know that I’ve been obsessing lately about the fabled Apple iPhone. They’ve got to be making one, and it will be useful, elegant and cool, and it will have my name all over it.

And it might look like this:

As The Register says , this is a “concept phone” that Synaptics has released. The screen is very sensitive to various kinds of touches and gestures, and damn but it looks cool.

But this isn’t the iPhone. Or is it? Apple’s screwed around Synaptics a lot recently – Synaptics used to be the company that made the click wheel for all of the iPods. Apple’s now making them themselves. There were rumours that Apple’s gone back to them for making something else . Perhaps this relationship has soured once more, and Synaptics have decided to release pictures of a “concept phone” based on Apple’s ideas for the iPhone as a kind of retribution for being kicked around. Hmm.

Either way, that’s a nifty looking phone. Pity it’s only a model.