Cell phone tree sends (green) message

An electronics mall in Tien Giang Province (Vietnam) has created a Christmas tree using used cell phones to send an environmental message, reports Phapluat via tuoitrenews.vn.

The three which is 4.5 m high and has 32 layers was made from 2,500 used cell phones collected by the mall’s staff since April.

Tran Hoang Quan, director of Westcom Electronics Mall, said the tree reflected the reality that Vietnam was fast becoming a huge electronic wasteland.

According to a study, Vietnamese are using more than 110 million cell phones and dumping more than 50 million of them a year.

This equals to 400 tons of electronic waste.

The tree will be auctioned off after being displayed and all proceeds will go to a local charity organization, Quan said.

Nokia robot make of cell phones

Spotted on CNet, a Nokia's Mobile Man made of used cell phones to promote green living in Asia.

Biggest iPhone on earth at St Pancras train station

Spotted on ElectricPig, the biggest iPhone on earth at St Pancras International Train Station to celebrate the launch of the game Lara Croft Guardian of Light on the Apple App Store.

Strictly speaking it’s not an iPhone. It’s made entirely using iPads – 56 of them in fact.

[via Cellular News. Click here to view other cell phone monuments.]

Statue of an Angel with a Cell Phone orns Cathedral in Holland

Spotted on Portablegear, a statue of an angel holding a cell phone on St. John's Cathedral (Sint-Janskathedraal), Den Bosch in the Netherlands.

I knew of Saint Isidore of Seville as the Patron Saint of the Internet, could this be the patron saint of cell phones?

According to Tom, Editor of Portablegear, the mobile phone of the angel has only one button. That is because, according to the artist, "the angel only has to call God".

Monument to (iPhone) 3G

Spotted on boingboing, a giant iPhone Monument inspired by Tatlin's Tower. By Russian art collective and electronics hacker group Electroboutique.

Largest working cell phone?

Both engadget and Gizmodo are calling this the largest cell phone in the world. I'm not so sure.

Check out LG's giant cell phone in Seoul and other cell phone monuments.

But it may indeed be the largest working cell phone.

Life-Size Phone Booth Lamp

Spotted on DVICE, an 8-foot-tall phone booth lamp by artist Finn Stone, one of the UK's leading makers of fibreglass furniture, who has been commissioned to create a number of high profile public sculptures around the country.

Crank phone Monument

Twenty-five years nearly to the day after the last hand-crank phone call was made in Bryant Pond of Bethel, Maine - a 14-foot tall sculpture made by Gil Whitman of the old-style phone was dedicated on the common. The Bethel Citizen reports via Fierce Telecom.

"The Bryant Pond Telephony Company operated the last operating handcrank phone service in the U.S., with the switchboard operated in the living room of owners Elden and Barbara Hathaway.

Phone calls were routed through by family members -- sometimes while cooking dinner or doing laundry."

Samsung Corp. Breaks Height Record in Dubai

The Burj Dubai tower being built by Samsung Corp in Dubai is the world’s tallest skyscraper.

The building will reach a height of 630 m this week, 38 months after the ground-breaking, Samsung Corp. said Monday.

[via ]

Samsung Mobile Sculpture made of 200 phones

Samsung Electronics displayed a sculpture made of 200 mobile phones which were about to be discarded in an event at a Ukrainian shopping mall last Wednesday.

Spotted on Digital Chosunilbo.

iPhone from the sand

iPhone on the beach. From Outer Banks, North Carolina.

[via boingboing]

The Megaphone

The MegaPhone, by SysOpen Digia is a 170 cm tall (or 5 feet 7) smartphone which works, with a large screen and real buttons. It's an excellent attention puller in retail shops, trade shows, conferences and other lage events.

[Services Mobiles via Mobitrends]

Related: Other giant phones or Cell Phone Monuments

Phase Two of ‘World in Your Hand’ themed Landmark Statue marketing

Esato reports that Samsung has started a second phase of its innovative "World in Your Hand" themed Landmark Statue marketing.

This blog reported on the previous campaign in airports around the world, and actually always wondered if it was a such good idea, as cell phone models change so much.

So, this explains it, there was a phase two in the works.

"Samsung kicks off the second-phase of the sculpture initiative with the recent installation of its new hand sculpture at the center of Taipei, Taiwan.

Samsung plans to have new installations at the gateways of international airports around the world, including Hong Kong, Cairo of Egypt, and Istanbul of Turkey.

The second phase hand sculpture reaches up to 50 feet in height.

The mobile screen on the new sculptures will feature LEDs to feature a variety of information, such as time, temperature, video displays, and messages.

Vibrant colors add an artistic touch to the hand itself to represent and capture the difference in humans, and the colors come together to represent unity as the fingers come together to cradle the phone.

This conveys Samsung’s broader philosophy that separation and differences between people will be unified through communication.

The sculpture is in association with the world famous artist Frederic Bruly Bouabre, an artist of Ivory Coast, and his artwork “Generous Hand in Rainbow Colors."

New LG cell phone monument in Seoul

LG Electronics set up a huge handset shaped structure at the Millennium Plaza in COEX, one of the favorite destinations of the youth in Seoul.

It features LG DMB mobile TV and LG plays commercials as well as provides the time and weather information.

[reBlogged from MobileKorea.tv]

Cell phone shaped hot air balloon

Where I was today. At the 28th International Ballonist Fiestival in Château d'Oex, Switzerland. An event that will take place over the next 10 days. Pictures right and left are of an LG cell phone shaped hot air Balloon, piloted by Spaniard balloonist Anulfo Gonzales.

Eighty hot air ballons are here, coming from 20 different country. It's an amagzin site. The LG phone is part of the "special shape category".

High-Rise shaped like a Mobile Phone for Melbourne?

Another cell phone shaped high rise, spotted on The Gadget Blog.

The Herald Sun reports that "millionaire mobile phone salesman "Crazy" John Ilhan has unveiled his radical design for a $40 million 120m highris tower in the shape of a phone.

Mr Ilhan, who put forward his "phone tower" plan earlier this year, hopes his distinctive building will become a Melbourne landmark".

Related: More cell phone monuments from around the world.

Dallas International airport gets Samsung Cell Phone Sculpture

The newly completed Terminal D at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, is the latest showcase for the giant Samsung cell phone sculpture, already present in other airports around the world (Paris, Johannesburg, Dubai, Athens, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Incheon, Dallas, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Sydney, Bangkok...). [via Digital Chosunilbo]

There's no mention whether this sculpture actually works, like the one at the Central World Plaza in Bangkok, where the giant phone features an enlarged LED bulletin board that displays messages and announcements sent by any member of the public

Related articles on Samsung airport sculptures:

-- Samsung's Hand Takes Hold of International Airports

-- Six-metre cellphone tribute_and it works

-- Samsung's Blue-Black Phone gets a sculpture

Articles on other cell phone monuments:

-- Huge Fake Siemens cell phone

-- SK Headquarters Designed to Resemble Cell Phone

-- Spectra-txt sculpture by Peter Freeman

Samsung's Hand Takes Hold of International Airports

Following last week's post on Samsung unveiling in Thailand of a six-metre statue in honor of the cell phone - which by the way - actually works. It's enlarged LED bulletin board displays text messages and announcements sent by anyone passing by - Telecoms Korea reports that 15 new sculptures are to appear this month at other airports, which will bring the total number of sculptures to 26 by the end of this year (since 2002)

Some of the airports: Paris, Johannesburg, Dubai, Athens, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Incheon, Dallas, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Sydney, Bangkok.

By year end: New York, Beijing and Moscow.

What's not clear is whether the Bangkok sculpture is the only one that allows passers-by to send text messages to it which are then displayed on a LED bulletin board, or whether all the scultpures have this feature.

Six-metre cellphone tribute_and it works

Samsung yesterday unveiled a 40-million-baht ($973'000) statue to honour the mobile telephone in Thailand, a six-metre, plastic and steel representation of an open human hand holding a phone handset, reports The Bangkok Post.

"Samsung, which has built similar landmarks in at least nine other countries, put the statue outside the Central World Plaza in Bangkok.

The phone on the hand of the 3-by-3-by-6-metre statue is a replica of Samsung's latest flagship handset, the D500. The giant phone features an enlarged LED bulletin board that displays messages and announcements sent by any member of the public.

The 2,800-kg statue will serve as an information board, providing major currency exchange rates and local time checks after the novelty of personal SMS texting wears off.

"With the diverse functionalities in a handset, mobile phone users can access any information from the mobile Internet, wherever they are and whenever they wish." said Tae-Bong Choi, managing director for Thailand business operations of Thai Samsung Electronics at the unveiling.

He added the statue has become a symbol of Samsung's global presence, and reflected consumer acceptance and trust in the Samsung brand worldwide.

Other cell phone statues/monuments:

-- Samsung's Blue-Black Phone gets a sculpture

-- Huge Fake Siemens cell phone

-- SK Headquarters Designed to Resemble Cell Phone

-- Spectra-txt sculpture by Peter Freeman

Huge Fake Siemens cell phone

I'm not sure this is new. A worker makes final touches on a huge fake Siemens cell phone in Hanover. [via Taiwan News. ]

Samsung's Blue-Black Phone gets a sculpture

A sculpture of Samsung Electronics' ‘Blue-Black Phone,' the SGH-D500, is set up on the approach to Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Paris.

The phone, a runaway success in Europe, won “Best Consumer Phone” in the UK Mobile Retailer Awards on Monday and German magazine Connect designated it as the most reliable handset in its June 2005 issue.

[via Digital Chosunilbo]

This piece of news has prompted the opening of a new category in textualy, entiteld Cell Phone Monuments where you will find other such (- megamaniacal or not - tributes to cell phones):

-- Huge Fake Siemens cell phone - A worker makes final touches on a huge fake Siemens cell phone in Hanover.

-- Spectra-txt sculpture by Peter Freeman - A spectacular mobile phone operated light sculpture by a Penzance artist has become the centrepiece of a Cleveland town. Spectra-txt, unveiled in Middlesbrough, is 10 metres high and weighs a hefty two tonnes and incorporates a light show.

-- K Headquarters Designed to Resemble Cell Phone - SK Group's new headquarters in Euljiro 2-ga in central Seoul is a uniquely designed building. The so-called "T-Tower," tapers to a blunt edge with an unusual kink at the level of the 27th floor in visual mimicry of a cellular phone.

SK Headquarters Designed to Resemble Cell Phone

SK Group's new headquarters in Euljiro 2-ga in central Seoul is a uniquely designed building attracting attention from passers-by with its reflective surfaces. The so-called "T-Tower," tapers to a blunt edge with an unusual kink at the level of the 27th floor in visual mimicry of a cellular phone, reports Digital Chosunilbo.

"The uniquely designed building is attracting attention from passers-by with its reflective surfaces. The so-called "T-Tower," tapers to a blunt edge with an unusual kink at the level of the 27th floor in visual mimicry of a cellular phone.

SK Group said that they decided to design the building in a form of a mobile phone because it will be occupied by its affiliate, SK Telecom.

T-Tower stands 33 floors above ground level and extends six floors beneath street level. It was designed by Hong Kong-based architecture company RAD, which is responsible for the exterior of Seoul's Sheraton Walkerhill Hotel."

Spectra-txt sculpture by Peter Freeman

A spectacular mobile phone operated light sculpture by a Penzance artist has become the centrepiece of a Cleveland town, according to the BBC.

"Spectra-txt, unveiled in Middlesbrough last week, is 10 metres high and weighs a hefty two tonnes and incorporates a light show.

And this is the clever bit: the steel tower has been designed to change colour when sent one of six special text message commands.

The colour can be determined from anywhere on the planet, linking Middlesbrough with, among other places, Tahitit - from where a special text message was sent as part of the opening ceremony."

Interact with Spectra-txt by texting one of the following commands to this number: 07919 00 00 77.

Some previous greater than life SMS projects, involving world participation:

-- The Hello World Project - During the course of the UN's World Summit on the Information Society held in Geneva in December 2004, people from all over the world were be able to send in text messages, which were be projected almost instantly by a laser beam on mountains and buildings in Mumbai (Marine Drive), Rio de Janeiro (Morro dois Irmaos Mountain), New York (UN building) and lake Geneva's "Jet d'eau"(water fountain).

-- Amodal Suspension - Short text messages sent by people over the Internet or by cell phone will be converted into patterns of flashing lights in the sky, turning the Japanese city of Yamaguchi into a giant communication switchboard. cf Amodal Suspension.

-- hellomrpresident - In 2001 people sent messages to Davos during the World Economic Forum's annual conference. A laser projector beamed the text messges onto the mountain side overlooking the famous ski resort, so that they could be seen by the hundreds of journalists and thousands of people from all over the world.