Japan’s NTT DoCoMo has demoed a new smartphone which features a rather interesting user interface, the Grip UI, which works when you touch the side of the smartphone.

On either side of the device there are pressure sensors, and a custom user interface which responds to the pressure on these sensors placed on the side of the device, have a look at the brief video of it in action below.

At the moment the handset is just a concept, but it could be developed to work with complex gestures as well as simple ones, whether or not it will make it into production remains to be seen.

Source Akihabara News, Gizmodo