According to reports, a 23-year-old British student named Kieron Scott-Woodhouse - a full-time product design student at Middlesex University - is preparing to release a smartphone dubbed ADzero, which will be encased in bamboo.

Going by the ADzero smartphone design which Scott-Woodhouse posted on the Internet, the casing of the handset will not just be a thin bamboo covering, but will be a complete shell made from a block of bamboo. Though light, the smartphone will surprisingly be very sturdy.

The online response to the ADzero has been so enthusiastic that while the smartphone was chiefly manufactured as a China-only handset, it will also apparently be launched in the UK and Europe later this year.

Despite the fact that, as of now, the details of the supposedly "high tech" ADzero smartphone are rather limited, it has been disclosed that the handset will be powered by Google's increasingly popular Android operating system; and will be nearly one-half the weight of the Apple iPhone. The handset will also have an impressive camera flash which will be embedded directly into its bamboo frame.

Revealing that the idea for developing a bamboo-encased handset largely stemmed from the fact that most of the currently-available smartphone models look fairly akin to one another, Scott-Woodhouse said that the ADzero has been made from four-year old, organically-grown, sustainable bamboo which has been adequately treated so as to make it more durable.