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Apollo phone concept, designed by Ichiro HIgashiizumi for the au Design project in 2002.

That is quite a way to get QWERTY onto a phone. Details on this are rather thin and I can't really read Japanese yet, but I think the ring surrounding the D-Pad could be a mechanical scroll wheel.

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(source - https://time-space.kddi.com/adp15th/index.html)

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