Penck: au's latest Design Project handset

au, KDDI's cellphone subsidiary, continues to take more chances than most with its handset designs. Latest in the au Design Project series is Makoto Saito's oddly-named Penck (named for artist A.R. Penck), a rounded-off CDMA 1X WIN handset with 3D speakers, a 1.24-megapixel camera, 260,000-colour, 2.2-inch, 240x320-dot LCD screen, and support for song downloads, Flash, and movin' pikchas in the SD-video (.ASF) format. It also may just be the first cellphone you could take to a stone-skipping contest and have any kind of chance at winning.

[Penck minisite @ au.KDDI.com]

[Via K-Tai Watch (Japanese)]

(crossposted to Engadget)