Design and Technology Teams Win National Challenge to Design Crime Proof Mobile Phones

Design and technology experts attend the Mobile Phone Security Challenge networking event, held at the Design Council.

Some of the UK's top designers and technology experts have been announced as winners in the £400,000 Mobile Phone Security Challenge, a national competition to create "crime proof" mobile phones.

The winning teams are; Proxama with Minima Design, Therefore Product Design with Imagination Technologies Limited, Rodd Design with TTP (The Technology Partnership) and Data Transfer Communications and PDD Group Limited with You Get It Back.

The four winning teams are each made up of a design and a technology lead and were selected on the strengths of their credentials.

The teams will be tasked with developing new ways of securing mobile phone handsets, the data they contain, and their future use as electronic "wallets" when m-commerce (mobile-commerce) technology is introduced in the UK.

Their innovative ideas and concepts will now be developed and refined over the coming months in steering meetings with an expert panel from across the mobile, technology and design industries.

The winning teams will aim to produce market-ready solutions which may include hardware and software for handsets, new services and other innovations, which will be showcased and promoted in early 2010, with a view to widespread and rapid take-up by the market.