Modu is ready to show the world their ideas on how cell phones should be. Their concept is the “guts” of the phone (that is it in the center of the photo) should be allowed to move into new housings, preserving the basic phone functionality but allowing new features specific to that housing. Follow?

The base Modu phone is a small thin chip-like unit. This unit, dubbed “lightest cell phone” by the Guiness World Records, slides into all the jackets or could be used by itself. From their site:

By sliding modu into a wide range of phone enclosures & consumer electronic devices modu enables consumers to create an entirely new personal communication experience and meet their ever changing needs, preferences and style.

For the mod-happy cell phone owner, Israeli-based modu sells a modular based cell phone. The core system is a little bigger than an iPod Nano, and there are several cases, each with different features and functionalities, that the base snaps into. While the phones are still not available anywhere, they are being marketed in Europe and the Middle East, but communications giant Qualcomm may be looking to bring the phone to the US as it has invested $7 million in modu.

While Samsung remains happy enough with its 5.9mm Samsung U100 cellphone, a little known device called the Modu stole the world record for the lightest cellphone in the world. It stands at 2.8 inches x 1.4 inches x 0.3 inch and weighs just 1.5 ounces. Obviously, there’s isn’t much technology you can pack in a more »