Samsung Galaxy Note 3

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is Back, Looks Realistic as Usual
If you’ve been following our website over the past couple of years, you must’ve noticed that we had a couple of Samsung Galaxy concepts and also some Galaxy Note concepts. Well, the Galaxy S4 for example had crazy designs, while the Galaxy Note II had realistic ones. That’s why I also expect the Galaxy Note 3 to get some realistic mockups, like the one below.

It was sent to us by uva7 dance and it’s a slab of plastic, with metallic edges, a wider format than the Galaxy S4 and a small pen slot at the back bottom. It’s not too far from the Galaxy S4 and it only increases in width. The screen has as small of a bezel as possible and if you look at this model from the profile, it has a certain feeling of iPhone, if you ask me. But what doesn’t nowadays, right?

We also get a bunch of specs for this Samsung Galaxy Note 3 concept, that include a 5.9 inch Super AMOLED Full HD display, an 8 core processor (4 core 2 GHz Cortex A15 + 4 core 1.4 GHz Cortex A7), 3 GB of RAM, up to 128 GB of ROM and microSDXC card slot. Android 5.0 is the OS of choice and at the back we’ve got a 16 megapixel camera, although I suppose the real device will have a 13 MP one. The good news is that the camera does 60 FPS 1080p video capture.

Finally, the Note 3  measures 7.9 mm in thickness and has a Li-Ion 3600 mAh battery. Realistic… or not?

[via uva7 dance]

Apple iPhone 5S Mockup Runs iOS 7.0, Has 12 MP Camera

Apple iPhone 5S Mockup Runs iOS 7.0, Has 12 MP Camera

Deepak Ahuja is certainly one of the most prolific concept phone designers lately and now he sent us a new mockup, the one of the Apple iPhone 5S. The handset runs iOS 7.0 and it’s rather slim and has an impressively small width.

It packs a 4.3 inch LED backlit IPS LCD display with a resolution of 1080 x 1280 pixels. There’s also a 12 megapixel camera on board, placed at the back and also offering a LED flash. We’ve also got a 2.1 megapixel front camera with 720p 30 FPS video capture. There’s a quad core 1.2 GHz CPU inside and a PowerVR SGX543 MP3 GPU to take care of the gaming.

The chipset type is Apple A6 and the storage versions are 16/32/64 GB, accompanied by 2 GB of RAM. The iPhone 5S measures 7.3 mm in thickness, weighs 111 grams and supports 4G LTE on a nano SIM. There’s a Li-Ion 2800 mAh battery powering up the machine and the iPhone 5S is available in black and white. Will this be real? We’ll see…

[Thanks Deepak Ahuja]

Microsoft TacTile Surface Phone Concept

Microsoft TacTile Surface Phone Concept by Michael Matteo

We have seen at least half a dozen Microsoft Surface phone concepts and today we get one more,  He envisioned the Microsoft TacTile, a Surface smartphone pictured below, in several shots.

These are renders of a person who likes Windows Phone and wants to show off his design skills. He’s got a proprietary port on board, a metallic backing with interesting ridges, as well as rubber edges, or something similar. The backplate of the device is CNC machined out of magnesium, like the Surface tablet. On the colored version, the alloy is anodized, apparently.

We’re dealing with a metallic phone with good grip and the windows Logo at the back is backlit, for an unique identity of the product. The front capacitive buttons and the logo are able to illuminate any color in the RG spectrum. I have to say that the colored versions of this Surface Phone render look kind of hot, youthful and would even give the Lumias a hard time. Nothing about specs, sadly…

[via Pocketnow and Coroflot]