The Inbrics M1

The folks over at Inbrics, a little known firm have come up with their own vision of what an Android phone should be.

With many terming it the coolest Android phone ever, Inbrics seems to have quickly run into some early and well deserved appreciation for their efforts.

The Inbrics M1 is a slider handset with a (great) 3.7-inch WVGA AMOLED display, 3 megapixel camera, front-facing VGA camera, 16GB of built-in storage, microSD slot and all the other usual trimmings, but what's particularly stunning is that the phone is not only half an inch thick, but it has a full QWERTY keyboard that's surprisingly clicky and typable.

The phone is running Android 1.5 right now, but it should be up to Android 2.0 by the time it hits the market in March. Sporting a 800MHz Samsung processor, the same chip that's in the Samsung Moment, the interface is smooth as butter, and they demo'd it playing back 720p video just fine.

Inbrics actually has a lot of custom UI and software running on top of Android, but the most interesting part is what they're doing with video calling and beaming media from handset to videophone to TV to laptop over DLNA or through an access point device that plugs into the TV over HDMI.

Inbrics also has a Cover Flow-style media browser that isn't super deep in functionality, but still puts the stock Android stuff to shame, and some rather sexy custom widgets.