Microsoft Surface Phone Concept has a 5 Inch Display, Even Has a Keyboard (Video)

Microsoft Surface Phone Concept has a 5 Inch Display, Even Has a Keyboard (Video)

Created by Techradar, this Microsoft Surface Phone concept features some high end specs and it’s basically a smaller Surface Tablet, since it even has that cool keyboard. The device packs a 5 inch 1280 x 720 Super AMOLED+ screen and runs a hybrid between Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8.

This handset has a full USB 3.0 port, a 12 megapixel camera with “ultra bright” flash and a kickass kickstand, shown in the video below. The mini touch cover here is the keyboard we were mentioned before and it certainly looks cool, although we’re not exactly sure how functional it is on a phone. If I’m allowed to speculate on other features of the device, well, it may have 2 GB of RAM, a quad core Snapdragon S4 Pro CPU, LTE, NFC and a magnesium alloy case, since we’re keeping the resemblance with the Surface tablet.

I’ve heard a rumor at some point that Windows Phone 9 will actually be a combo between Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8, so maybe this is supposed to be a WP9 flagship device. I would also add a special Skype camera on board, activated by the double press of the camera key on the device, to instantly start video chatting. How cool would that be?

[via Techradar]

Samsung Flexible Display Technology Shown at CES 2013 (Video)

Samsung Flexible Display Technology Shown at CES 2013 (Video)

I was complaining just the other day that we didn’t get to see cutting edge technology at CES 2013 and Samsung is here to prove me wrong. They did present a video showing flexible displays on a tablet and phone and you can watch that below. This is part of the Samsung CES 2013 keynote and speculations say that the Galaxy S IV or S V could have a Youm technology flexible display.

First we see a Galaxy S-style device, that can open up in two pieces and be turned into sort of a tablet. It’s sort of like a small booklet that you open up in order to use, as shown in the video. The interface is still TouchWizz and the device is incredibly thin. The concept of the video is rather puerile, since the girl is supposed to go with the guy who has the cooler toy. The douche with the tablet with lights around it is supposed to have an iPad, or what?

Anyway, at the end of the clip the futuristic flexible display tablet is shown as a main stick device with a sliding out flexible E-paper style screen, that displays the interface. It may be a 7 inch sheet that’s doing that, making this a very interesting tablet. We’re in for a long wait till this comes to mainstream production…

[Thanks Kevin for the tip]