Nokia Lumia 0360 Xbox Phone

Nokia Lumia 0360 Xbox Phone Features 8 Core Snapdragon CPU

The idea of a Nokia gaming phone isn’t new and the idea of an Xbox Phone has also been approached before. However, combining the two has only happened in recent history, so it’s an idea worth exploring. That’s why we find the Nokia Lumia 0360 Xbox Phone concept pretty interesting, especially with the N-Gage branding also in the mix.

This phone is considered a tribute to both the N-Gage and the Xbox 360 and the result is a pretty bulky gaming smartphone. Nabkawe5 is the creator of the device and in case you’re wondering Nokia 0360, that’s the name of the handset, features an 8 core Snapdragon processor and a GPU With DX11 support, as well as 4 GB of RAM. There’s also 80 GB of storage with SD cards included and 2 x 2000 mAh batteries. Kinect for Windows Phone 8 is here and a PureHD+ Display provides the imagery.

The integrated Kinect camera will allow you to control the Nokia phone with gestures, the ones specific to the famous Xbox sensor/camera system. One of the two 2000 mAh batteries powers the Kinect camera and the heavy consumption areas, like the 5 inch screen, while the other handles normal phone activities. Do you see such a concept happening?

Nokia Lumia Xpress Music Phone Looks More Like a Communicator

Nokia Lumia Xpress Music Phone Looks More Like a Communicator

Deviantart member fabrivera99 created a Nokia Lumia Xpress Music concept and following this name, this should be a music phone. However, for some reason I find it to be more similar to a Communicator or to the Nokia N900 and N950, when it comes to the sliding keyboard at least.

The strange print of the keys makes me think they’re actually capacitive ones, although that doesn’t seem like a move that any phone maker would pull. I like those playback keys on the side, that seem really useful and also notice the old school physical Windows buttons at the bottom. Too bad that the device seems to run Windows Phone 7, with that wasted space on the screen, instead of using the full display area.

The only bad thing I can imagine about this Nokia Lumia Xpress Music handset is that it’s too narrow and thick to be appealing. An unusual diagonal would be something like 3.2 inches here, while a nice one would be 4 inches or even more, although the image doesn’t indicate that. I would use a dual core Snapdragon CPU on the device, 1 GB of RAM, 32 GB of storage and an 8 megapixel camera. Is there any room for sliding QWERTY Nokia phones nowadays?

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 With an Interesting 4 Way Multitasking System

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 With an Interesting 4 Way Multitasking System

We’ve seen our share of Samsung Galaxy Note 3 concepts, but one more can never be bad, right? This is where our source, “gpat” comes in, sending us his vision of the next Galaxy Note. We’re dealing with a pretty wide device, as shown in the picture below and the form factor looks a bit like a fatter Note of the first generation.

Inside this concept there’s a Samsung Exynos 8 core big.LITTLE processor, 4 GB of RAM and at the back we’ve got a 12 megapixel camera. Upfront there’s a 6 inch OMEGA AMOLED screen and also inside there’s a 5000 mAh battery, that should give you at least as much time of use as the Note II did. The cool thing is that the Galaxy Note 3 can split the image into 4 3″ 540p windows for multitasking. The platform of choice here is Samsung’s own twist on Android called “Android+”, so a bit more customization than TouchWiz.

The Holo UI is kept, the updates are promised to be more often (fingers crossed) and this new OS is optimized for multitasking and seamlessly integrated with Google services. For those who don’t know Samsung is expected to unveil the big.LITTLE processor next year, an 8 core ARM CPU, with one half being a quad core 1.8 GHz ARM Cortex A15 and the other being a quad core 1.2 GHz Cortex A7. The former is used for the main tasks and the latter for the quieter moments. What do you think of this device/CPU?

Nokia Lumia 950 is a Curved Handset With a Futuristic Design

Nokia Lumia 950 is a Curved Handset With a Futuristic Design

After so many rectangular devices and predictable shapes, here comes the Nokia Lumia 950 to change the norm, with some interesting curves. The design is curved both at the front and back and its profile too, so we’re dealing with something that I call “a flattened American football ball”.

This concept was created by industrial designer Zelig Fok and you should know that the top and bottom of the handset are able to change color and light up for notification purposes. The color gets cleared when there’s no notification. At the back we have a sliding lens that makes you avoid lens smudging and the entire device is wrapped in glass, so there’s no exact and clear bezel at the edges of the screen. You always ask us what software the designers use for creating such concepts.

Well, this time we know: Sketchbook Pro and Photoshop and the designer is also working on learning some CAD. As you probably figured out, the Nokia Lumia 950 is a Windows Phone 8 device, with curved Gorilla Glass wrapped around it and translucent plastic ends. Wireless charging is also here and as far as specs go, the designer couldn’t decide on them. So, let us imagine the hardware features: 4.5 inch 768p display, 21 megapixel camera with PureView tech, 32 GB of storage, 1.5 GB of RAM and a quad core Snapdragon S4 Pro CPU.  So, what do you think of this Nokia industrial design?

Samsung Galaxy

Samsung Galaxy S4 Hands on Video Shows an Excellent Concept (Video)

Every once in while we run into the occasional fantastic concept, that’s so well done that it manages to trick some blogs and media sources into writing about it as if it were real. Such is the case of the Samsung Galaxy S4 render below, shown in a video done by Rozetked, a very, very well done clip.

We’re dealing with a model presented as the Samsung GT-i9500 and packing a 2 GHz quad core processor, a 13 megapixel camera and a 5 inch Full HD screen. The display is an AMOLED edge to edge display and the curves of the handset are more subtle than the ones of the Galaxy S III. This Galaxy S4 model runs Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie and it’s a very realistic handset. The futuristic part of the concept is actually the dock with a gesture activated keyboard, that’s actually virtual and projected on a flat surface.

If the real Samsung Galaxy S4 looks anything like this, consider me an instant fan, especially since the smartphone is very thin, looks like and its curved back makes it look like a very fancy mouse seen from the top. And that edge to edge display is so so well done… What do you think about this render? Check out the hands on video below!

iPhone 5S Concept Involves Projectors, Virtual OS X Experience in Thin Air (video)

iPhone 5S Concept Involves Projectors, Virtual OS X Experience in Thin Air (video)

The iPhone 6 and iPad 5 are making their way to the media, but we should expect an iPhone 5S rather than the next generation of Apple handset. Frank_Snk imagined a totally futuristic next gen iPhone, one that incorporates a bunch of projectors, that will give you both the work interface and a virtual keyboard to play with.

This iPhone 5S turns into a Mac, a full fledged Apple computer and gives you the entire unaltered OS X experience projected onto a wall in front of you. Then there’s also a full sized keyboard projected on the table in front of the user. How cool is that? The whole process is detailed in the video below and we also have some shots here. It appears that the top and bottom of the new iPhone will detach and reveal the projectors, integrated within a complex metallic structure.

Just so you know, this iPhone 5S concept is supposed to incorporate 4 pico projectors, so it probably has a kickass battery to fuel them up. Other than that the design is pretty much the same, except for maybe a CPU bump to handle all the high def imagery. I expect an iPad Retina level resolution or maybe even 4K from that projector…

Nokia Lumia Play, a Gaming Phone Powered by Microsoft Xbox Technology

Nokia Lumia Play, a Gaming Phone Powered by Microsoft Xbox Technology

When you think about a gaming phone, either the PSP Phone pops up or the occasional Xbox handset concept. The latter is also the case today, through the Nokia Lumia Play render, done by Antonio Celestino. Describing this as an “Xbox Phone” is not at all far from the truth, since we’re dealing with a smartphone that’s also a pretty powerful console.

Nokia Lumia Play features two game pads at the back of the phone and they can extend out and be used as such, improving the gaming experience. It is also possible to use the device as a gamepad when interacting with an Xbox 360 console. The device features a high definition 1136 x 640 pixel display, a touchscreen with Gorilla Glass protection. There’s also a 5 megapixel front camera capable of 720p videos, while at the back there’s a 10 megapixel camera with Full HD video capture.

This Nokia concept phone runs Windows Phone 8 and measures 7.6 mm in thickness. Lumia Play offers both a directional pad and action buttons, plus there should be some minor shoulder buttons available, although I’m not so sure. The handset has a pretty unusual shape, seen from the front with lots of straight edges and straight lines, so without curves. No specs were mentioned, but a quad core CPU and 2 GB of RAM would be welcome. Is such a phone possible?

Samsung Galaxy S4 Design Has Sharp Edges, 4 GB of RAM, 13 MP camera

Samsung Galaxy S4 Design Has Sharp Edges, 4 GB of RAM, 13 MP camera

The latest Samsung Galaxy S4 concept comes from Shahin Jazirian, who imagined a device with sharp edges and also some pretty realistic specs, maybe aside from the whole 4GB of RAM thing. This device uses a micro SIM, weighs 144 grams and packs a 5 inch Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with a 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution.

Gorilla Glass 3 is also on board, as well as a microSD card slot and up to 128 GB of internal storage. HSDPA 42 Mbps is also here, as well as LTE, dual band WiFi, DLNA, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC and microUSB. At the back of this Samsung Galaxy S4 render there’s a 13 megapixel camera with autofocus, LED flash and quality check. The cam does simultaneous HD video and photo capture, geotagging, touch focus, face and smile detection and image stabilization. Also, the camera captures in 1080p at either 30 or 60 FPS.

The handset has at the front a 1.9 megapixel camera and it runs an interesting flavour of Android: Jelly Bean v4.4.4. There seems to be a fetish with the number 4 here since designer Shahin Jazirian also says that the device has a quad core 2.4 GHz Cortex A10 Exynos 4444 Quad processor. Also there are 4 GB of RAM and a Mali 444MP GPU. Strange, right? Finally, for those of you wondering, there’s a 2020 mAh battery on board and the price tag is… not 444 euro, but rather 777 euro.

Is this a realistic concept? What do you think?

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Design Involves 8 Core CPU, 3 GB of RAM

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Design Involves 8 Core CPU, 3 GB of RAM

Erica Yusim sent us pictures of what seems to be a Samsung Galaxy Note 3render, a pretty well thought device, that evolves from the idea of the two predecessors. First of all, it seems to have an edge to edge screen, then a more elegant Home button and then a bigger diagonal.

It also has a more squared format, leaving behind the rounded design of the Galaxy S III and Note II. Samsung Galaxy Note 3 features a 5.8 inch FHD Super AMOLED screen, a bigLITTLE processor, which means we have both a 2 GHz quad core processor (Cortex A15) and a quad core Cortex A7 1.4 GHz CPU. Basically, we’re dealing with an 8 core phablet, with 3GB of RAM, 32 to 128 GB of ROM and a microSDXC storage of up to 128 GB as well.

Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie is chosen here and a 4000 mAh battery powers up the device. At the back there’s a 13 megapixel camera, while upfront we use a 3 MP webcam. The whole thing measures 8.9 mm in thickness and obviously involves a brand new S Pen generation. From the comparison pics in this article, you can see that the Note 3 combines elements from the Note 1 and Note II, taking more from the first generation, if you ask me. I actually prefer a more rectangular design compared to the rounded one…

New Xperia Bravia Pictures, By Frank Tobias

New Xperia Bravia Pictures, By Frank Tobias

The Sony Xperia Bravia had only one render till now, created by Frank Tobiasand his design was a success, receiving positive votes. Now he’s back with two more pics, shown below and some details about this device. We’re dealing with the usual high end 5 inch smartphone, a format that has become very trendy for late 2012 and early 2013.

The Xperia Bravia looks like a Sony flagship of 2013 and it’s supposed to have a 5 inch Reality Display, with Mobile Bravia Engine technology and a 720p resolution. At the back we’ve got a 12.1 megapixel camera with a dual LED flash and I suppose that inside we have a quad core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro or maybe a surprise Exynos CPU. I like the sleek facade of the phone, that makes me think of an edge to edge screen. I frankly would have gone with Full HD not 720p for this screen, since that will be the new standard in 2013.

From the profile this Xperia concept reminds me of the PlayStation 3 console, in the slim version, don’t ask me why, it just does… It’s got that sleek piano black smooth gadget look, with both elegance and seriousness involved. I’d imagine myself holding such a device in the pocket. What about you?

Windows Phone 8 Luxury Smartphone Reminds me of a Hot Ferrari Supercar

Windows Phone 8 Luxury Smartphone Reminds me of a Hot Ferrari Supercar

Designer Grigory Bars from Russia really put a lot of work into his GB Navigator design, a Windows Phone 8 luxury smartphone. The handset borrows heavily from automotive design and it reminds me of the top notch Ferrari supercars of the past year. GB Navigator is the name of the concept phone, that makes me feel like the times I opened the boxes of the DIY Burrago cars.

Since we don’t have any specs for this device, I have to say we could be dealing with a 4.5 inch handset here, with a HD resolution, an 8 megapixel camera with flash at the back and edges that look rubbery for better grip. Let’s add a dual core Snapdragon CPU under the hood, 1 GB of RAM and 16 GB of storage and we’re all set. I find those two colored buttons at the bottom interesting, the red and green one, that may be used for Home/Back features, eliminating the search button.

Can’t really tell if there’s a camera button on there, but there are some shoulder buttons that may be used to change volume and enter the camera. This handset is adorned with loads of metal, but also rubber and possibly other materials related to the world of supercars. Maybe aluminum, carbon fiber, titan, magnesium? If Ferrari will ever make a Windows Phone model, it will look like this!

[via Grigory Bars]

New Facebook Phone by Tolga Tuncer is a Sliding Piece of Work With a Scroll Wheel

New Facebook Phone by Tolga Tuncer is a Sliding Piece of Work With a Scroll Wheel

Tolga Tuncer already created this Facebook Phone concept, a very narrow and long blue device and now the designer is back with yet another unusual format. I’m talking about as squared sliding handset that supports a scroll wheel-style thingie in the middle with the Like button at its centre.

This device has a compact aluminum casing and a sliding mechanism. The wheel is all aluminum and the experience must be very nice when it comes to touching this area with your fingertips. With this wheel you can scroll through the Facebook timeline, News list, Friend List photos and even the Instagram filters. The design here is something between iPod nano and Motorola Flipout. I could imagine every teen in USA playing with such a device, to be honest.

In the sliding area we’ve got what looks like a pretty decent camera, maybe a 5 megapixel sensor, while at the back there’s a cutout for a speaker. At the bottom we have some metallic buttons resembling the ones on the iPhone and PS Vita and what seems like a tiny display, maybe for notifications? The Facebook Phone concept comes in the typical blue hue associated with the social network and has the logo written in a couple of places. I’m a big fan of metal on phones and this fits my tastes.