News: Google's latest research project equips smartphones with the ability to map their surroundings and build navigable three-dimensional virtual environments that can be used to give directions indoors. More
News: Google-owned communications company Motorola is working with Design Academy Eindhoven graduate and Phonebloks creator Dave Hakkens to develop open-source modular mobile phones. More
Dutch Design Week 2013: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Dave Hakkens' concept for a mobile phone made of detachable blocks has gone viral, attracting over 16 million views on YouTube and garnering almost a million supporters online (+ movie + interview). More
News: designer and entrepreneur Gwendolyn Floyd has launched an e-commerce platform that allows female artisans from developing countries to overcome "economic discrimination" and sell jewellery using just a mobile phone (+ movies). More
News: Apple has revealed the design of iOS 7 - the highly anticipated first major user interface redesign since industrial designer Jonathan Ive was put in charge of both hardware and software design across the company. More
Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa appeared in our latest movie filmed as part of Dezeen and MINI World Tour discussing the minimal design and intuitive interface of this mobile phone created for Japanese company KDDI (+ movies). More
Interview: struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry hopes to wrestle back lost market share with a new touchscreen keyboard that will eradicate the "embarrassing" mistakes common on rival smartphones. "Sometimes it's kind of scary when you get your own emails back and you read them," said BlackBerry's head of design Todd Wood. More
Royal College of Art student Gabriele Meldaikyte has designed a set of interactive exhibits for a museum of iPhone gestures (+ slideshow). More
News: Dezeen featured in Apple's launch of the iPhone 5 today and makes an appearance in the movie demonstrating the new product. More
Designer Richard Clarkson has created a conceptual smartphone with a rotary dial. More
London designer Dominic Wilcox created this stylus that straps over his nose for using his touch-screen phone in the bath. More
Milan 2011: Swedish designers Claesson Koivisto Rune unveiled this mobile phone design at Superstudio Piu at Tortona Design Week in Milan. More
San Francisco designer Yves Behar has designed the inaugural product from new Danish mobile phone brand Æsir. More
Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has created a transparent mobile phone. More
This mobile phone concept by London designer Patrick Hyland can be charged by the heat in your pocket. More
Digital communications agency Etre have created gloves that expose the tips of the thumb and index finger, specifically designed for using touch-screen devices. More
Chinese designer Daizi Zheng has created a conceptual mobile phone for Finnish brand Nokia that could be powered by sugary drinks. More
Japanese designer Nosigner has designed Drip Grip and XY, two new concepts for Japanese mobile phone company KDDI. More
San Francisco-based designers One & Co have collaborated with mobile phone manufacturers HTC in Taiwan to design the Touch Diamond handset. More
Milan 08: London-based Chauhan Studio will launch four new telephones for SunCorp Communications in Milan during the furniture fair next month. More