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Thursday January 8, 2009
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 How would you like to fold your phone? The most oddly-shaped phone of this year's CES is the Icephone, a WIndows Mobile device with three panels that each fold both ways to turn the phone into a video-conferencing machine, a gaming device, or a military-spec, closed clamshell.
The Icephone was originally designed for military use, according to founder Graham Gilmour. The UK military requested the gaming options, to keep bored soldiers entertained. The phone also has on-board medical software, including instructions on how to deal with various emergency situations and ways to store medical and dental records, Gilmour said.
The phone has a transflective 240x400 3" TFT LCD touch screen, GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and push-to-talk capabilities, according to the company. There's a 3.1-megapixel camera that can either face back or front, depending on how you fold the phone. Also depending on how you fold the phone, the Icephone reveals a joystick, gaming pad and QWERTY keyboard.
At CES, Icephone is looking for a US carrier partner for the phone, Gilmour said. The phone could run on either a GSM or CDMA network, and could be ready as early as the third quarter of this year. It will cost under $1000, he said.
More photos after the jump.
Fold the Icephone one way, and it looks like a standard QWERTY Windows Mobile phone.
Fold it all the way open, and you see both the QWERTY and gaming keypads.
Finally, you can fold the back in to point the camera towards yourself, for video calling.
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