Samsung Galaxy S IV Project Altius Concept

Samsung Galaxy S IV Project Altius Concept Created by Daniel Ou

With all this MWC 2013 craziness around us, people forgot that next month, on March 14th the Samsung Galaxy S IV smartphone will be launched. Well, it’s been a while since we’ve seen a concept of this device, so let’s check out this new one, from Daniel Oudam Uy.

He imagined the Samsung Galaxy S IV with the Project Altius codename, as shown in the picture. The device features a 4.99 inch Super AMOLED screen and an Exynos Octa 5410 1.9 GHz processor, that will be replaced with a Snapdragon 600 for USA and other regions. There’s also WiFi on board, 5G connectivity and floating touch technology.

The Samsung Galaxy S IV will be available in 16, 32 and 64 GB versions and at the back it will have a 13 megapixel camera. From what I can see, the device adopts an almost edge to edge design, with a very thin profile and mostly metallic case. The design is also more retangular than rounded, unlike the Galaxy S III.

Nokia Catwalk aka Lumia 1008 Features Rotating camera, Interesting Button Integration

Nokia Catwalk aka Lumia 1008 Features Rotating camera, Interesting Button Integration

Looking for a phone that comes with Windows Phone 8 Blue preinstalled? We’ve got it here, in concept phase! Meet the Nokia Lumia 1008 aka the Nokia Catwalk, that was rumored before MWC 2013. This render was created by Edgar Mkrtchyan, who never fails to amaze us with his Nokia concept smartphones.

This is a slightly curved phone with an upper side that has a piece serving as a rotating camera. This model has crazy good specs and it’s truly a high end flagship phone. It runs Windows Phone 8 Blue and relies on a Snapdragon 600 1.6 GHz CPU and there’s also an Adreno 320 GPU in the mix. To that we add 2 GB of RAM and moving to the design a bit, the top and bottom of the phone used anodised aluminum, while the rear hull is made of polycarbonate.

Nokia Catwalk uses a 4.5 Inch PureMotion HD+ ClearBlack display, with Gorilla Glass 3 protection. Finally, that rotating camera at the top involves a 38 megapixel sensor, with Pureview technology, 3X optical zoom and double LED flash, plus Xenon flash. Other specs include 32 GB of storage, a microSD card slot and a 3200 mAh battery. You can charge the device by induction and it also comes with a micro HDMI port.

The interesting part is the area of Windows Phone buttons, so well embedded and discrete… Also, you should know that the changeable back cover of the phone can be made with a 3D printer.

HTC Nexus One

HTC Nexus One 2013 is a Return to the Roots of the Nexus Series

It’s been a while since the prolific Bob Freking designed something for us, but luckily he’s back, with a very interesting concept: the HTC Nexus One 2013. Those of you who remember Android history, may know that the first Google Nexus phone was the HTC One and now we’ve got another… One.

HTC Nexus One features a 1.8 GHz Snapdragon 600 processor, a Full HD Super LCD 3 screen and an 8 megapixel Ultrapixel camera. It also adopts an all aluminum unibody case and runs Android Key Lime Pie. Bob also informed us that according to Wall Street Journal Google is feeling threatened by Samsung, that has become way too attached to Android and they have a huge market share, so they won’t leave the next Nexus phone to them.

It could go to either Motorola or HTC, but if you ask me Sony is also in the books. As you can see, this device borrows a bit from the HTC One, a bit from the One X and a bit from the LG Nexus 4. I like the rounded form factor, a bit more rounded than the HTC One and I imagine that the back has a soft touch material. Is a Nexus 2013 phone made by HTC possible?

[Thanks Bob Freking]

Sony Xperia Sai

Sony Xperia Sai is a Bright and Thin Handset

David Quijada aka ibolzurikato from Deviantart created a new Sony Xperia concept phone, one that uses interesting lighting around the edges and looks very slim, also slightly curved. There’s a certain sci-fi look to this model, that we’ll analyze in the following lines.

First of all we’re dealing with an Xperia, so it’s an Android concept phone, as proved by the icons on the screen and by the 3 capacitive buttons below the display. There’s a beautiful side lighting mechanism on the device and a gentle curve at the back. I also seem to have a spotted the camera and flash integration in the back area, both very discrete.

The device is elongated and curved, meaning it may sit well in the user’s hand, but I’m not sure it won’t wobble on a flat surface. I can imagine that the Sony Xperia Sai is made of metal or some new and resilient plastic material, while the front is all glass and the button part certainly looks like glass being transparent and all. What do you make of this Xperia render?

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Nokia Lumia Watch

Nokia Lumia Watch, a Necessary Device

Since even Apple is rumored to be preparing an iWatch and Samsung is apparently up to something like that as well, Nokia may also jump on the bandwagon and come up with a Lumia Watch. Till then we have a concept of such a watch from Mohammad Mahdi Azimi.

The device minimizes the design of the typical Lumia and it’s the basic square wrist accessory with touchscreen included. The Nokia Lumia Watch packs a pressure indicator, compass, altimeter, GPS, calorie meter, 4G LTE and a waterproof case. There’s also the ability to sync the device with Lumia series handsets.  From what I see this watch runs some version of Windows Phone, too.

The watch seems to have a front camera and it comes in the bright colors of the Lumia series. It’s not very clear what the belt of the concept watch looks like, but I suppose that it’s either metal or leather, or maybe a human-friendly plastic that doesn’t harm you. It sounds like a good idea and I seem to have spotted a microSD card slot on it or maybe a SIM card slot?

Google XPhone Concept

Google XPhone Concept Design Created by Jason Chen (Video)

People are really excited about Motorola’s upcoming Google XPhone, so they started to imagine how it would look like. Among them there’s the designer Jason Chen who not only created a concept video of the device, but also a bunch of renders for the Google XPhone.

We’re dealing with the upcoming superphone from Google and Motorola, a sort of Nexus device without the Nexus branding, from what we’ve heard. The handset comes with a 7.6 mm thick chassis, still thicker than the Motorola Droid RAZR and it weighs 125 grams. It features a 4.5 inch Super AMOLED display with a 1280 x 720 pixel resolution and a quad core 1.5 GHz Krait CPU, plus a 13 megapixel PureView camera with Full HD video.

The specs of this model are pretty unrealistic if you ask me, since Nokia would never lend Moto their camera tech and also the device is kind of the same with the Nexus 4, as far as specs go. Many people disliked the back area of the Nexus 4, so at least that’s changed, being replaced by something that looks like metal. What do you think?

BlackBerry Z10

BlackBerry Z10 

The BlackBerry Z10 uses the new BlackBerry 10 mobile operating system. Theuser interface of BB 10 is based on the concept of direct manipulation, usingmulti-touch gestures. Interaction with the OS includes gestures such as swipe, tap, pinch, and reverse pinch, all of which have specific definitions within the context of the BB10 operating system and its multi-touch interface.

The phone has a mobile hotspot functionality, which supports up to 8 devices, sharing its internet connection.^[4] It accesses the BlackBerry World, an onlineapplication distribution platform for the BlackBerry OS. The service allows users to browse and download applications, games, music, videos from the BlackBerry World store.

The touchscreen keyboard provides an advanced typing experience. It learns the user's writing style and suggests words to help the user type faster, more accurately and with the least amount of effort.^[5]

"The BlackBerry Z10 has an 8 megapixel camera on the back with autofocus and LED flash capable of shooting 1080p video, while there's a 2 megapixel camera on the front that shoots video at 720p".^[6] A unique feature in the Z10's camera app is TimeShift. "BlackBerry has been showing it off for a while, and it lets users dial back the time on certain pictures so that people aren't making less-than-ideal faces in it (like blinking mid-shot)."^[6]

The Z10 has Voice Control, that allows the user to operate the phone by spoken commands. Voice Control recognizes natural speech patterns, so that the user can talk naturally and always be understood. It can be used to send messages, compose emails, dictate documents, search the phone just by speaking to the app.^[5]

HTC M8

HTC M8 With Windows Phone 8, the Follow-up to HTC One

This week HTC unveiled the HTC One smartphone, previously known as the M7, an Android Jelly Bean handset with high end features and a great design. Now Michael Retovona proposes a new HTC design, the M8 device, pictured below and packing Windows Phone 8.

The designer claims that he likes the Lumia and the iPhone 5 look, so he admits that the HTC One is a bit inspired by those. So, he went out and created the equivalent of the HTC One in the Windows Phone universe: HTC M8. Michael worked one hour and a half on this render in Photoshop alone and using vectors.

There are some changes from the HTC One, like the fact that we have speakers at the lower back, not only at the front top and bottom. Also, below the screen there are Windows Phone buttons and the front camera has been moved from the side to the center. There are 3 capacitive buttons instead of 3 and other than that the handset may keep its 4.7 inch Full HD screen and maybe even the 4 MP Ultrapixel camera. Fancy this phone?

Sony Xperia X

Sony Xperia X  

Sony Xperia x Designer Suman Chatterjee created a very interesting concept, the Sony Xperia X, a smartphone that aims to be a rival for the HTC One handset, if we consider its diagonal and features. You should probably know that this Android device has its on/off button placed at the top, the volume control on the right and the front camera has a flash.

The front cam’s flash is integrated with Smart Flash technology, that enables autofocus and face recognition during video calls and photography. It also enables quality videos and photos during low light. There are dual speakers at the base of this slim handset, that’s also quite elongated. The phone measures 7.1 mm in thickness, weighs 138 grams and packs a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 quad core CPU at 1.7 GHz. It runs Android 4.2.2, uses 2 GB of DDR2 RAM and 32/64 GB of storage.

The camera at the back is a 16 megapixel Exmor RS unit with dual flash, while upfront we’ve got a 3.2 MP shooter with Exmor R. Finally, we’ve also got a removable Li-Polymer battery with a capacity of 2700 mAh, plus a GPS and digital compass also on board. NFC, Bluetooth 4.0, WiFi and DLNA are all here as well. So, what do you think of this design, is it a worthy Xperia Z successor?

BBK Vivio X3 is the First REAL Bezel-Less Smartphone

BBK Vivio X3 is the First REAL Bezel-Less Smartphone; Could Come This Year!

Although Motorola has the RAZR M model out there, that’s not exactly the bezel-free handset that the world was expecting. People want something more in the line with the prototype below, dubbed the BBK Vivio X3. The picture below shows a prototype or pre-production model of a device that lacks any kind of vertical bezel.

It also resembles the front panel shown below, one that belongs to the Vivio X1 model and this company was also responsible with a very thin phone, that measured 6.55 mm in thickness and debuted last year. We also have some rumored specs for this bezel-free wonder. They include a Full HD screen, a quad core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, 2 GB of RAM, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and a 13 megapixel rear camera. There’s also 32 GB of storage and a 2,200 mAh battery, all of them already pretty generic specs for a 2013 model.

The only problem here is the battery capacity and with LTE in the mix and such a big, bright display, it may be a bit of a battery drainer. Are we actually ready for phones with no vertical bezel? What’s your first complain regarding one? Screen smudging, cracking screen sides, accidental presses on the display?

Flip Smartphone Features Dual OS Setup: Windows Phone 8 and Android 4.2.2

Flip Smartphone Features Dual OS Setup: Windows Phone 8 and Android 4.2.2

We’ve already shown you some designs created by Suman Chatterjee and here’s one more! Meet the Flip smartphone, a device with a dual OS setup, created by this designer. It runs Android 4.2.2 and Windows Phone 8 and it relies on a flip icon on the dock bar to alternate between the platforms.

You can click the icon in order to change the OS and by the way, the platforms run simultaneously. Multiple users can be involved here, balancing work and personal stuff, depending on the user’s choice. The Flip smartphone packs a 4.9 inch HD display, a 5 megapixel camera at the front and an Ultrapixel camera at the back with dual LED flash and 1080p video capture. Inside the device, that I suspect to be made by HTC or Samsung for some reason, there’s an octa core 1.7 GHz processor, 4 GB of RAM and 32/64 GB of storage.

Bluetooth 4.0 is also here, plus 4G LTE, NFC and a removable Li-Ion 3500 mAh battery. This is a huge battery, even compared to the Droid RAZR MAXX, that got past the 3000 mAh mark a long while ago. I like the Android part of this design very much, especially the UI, while the WP 8 part is pretty much the usual one. Would such a model be a hit?

Apple TV Set Concept

Apple TV Set Concept, the iTV Envisioned by Appledigger From Russia (Video)

Over the past years there has been an impressive number of rumors saying that Apple will release a television set, but we’ve only seen the Apple TV set top box coming to life so far. The folks of Appledigger.ru have decided to come up with a concept of the Apple iTV, that’s shown in the pictures and video below.

    

There’s no liquid plasma, no transparent screens, only existing technologies. The inspiration for the iTV is the 2012 iMac, the latest generation available, as well as the iPhone 5, plus the Apple TV. The case uses anodized aluminum, the TV is painted black and it’s only available in this color choice. It’s supposed to have 3 versions with different displays: 30 inches, 41 inches and 50 inches. Incorporated into the device we find a FaceTime HD camera for videocalls and at the top there’s a dual stereo microphone.

On the back we’ve got an audio jack, Ethernet, Thunderbolt, 4 USB 3.0 ports and under the glass logo there’s a WiFi antenna. At the ends of the Apple iTV here are two sets of holes, used to disperse heat, that’s known to rise. The device can connect via wireless to the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, which you can use as controllers for it. There’s also support for Bluetooth connections to third party joysticks for gaming. The video below makes me think that this Apple television looks a bit like a modern iPad, for some reason…

             

      

   

Sony Xperia PlayStation Gaming Phablet

Sony Xperia PlayStation Gaming Phablet is Actually More Exciting Than the PS4

Sony has just announced the PlayStation 4, but they didn’t also unveil its hardware specs, price, or even a picture of the device, sadly. In order to get a consolation out of this, we show you a brand new concept of a PlayStation phone, or more accurately a PlayStation phablet done by Simon Drake.

The device is called the Sony Xperia PS and it packs a Full HD 6 inch display, 2 GB of RAM and a 1.5 GHz quad core processor, as well as an Adreno 320 GPU. You can map the power button and camera button into the left and right button apparently and there are two illumination bars on board like on the Xperia S. The Sony Xperia PS packs a 13 megapixel camera with rounded LED flash and a 3 MP front camera, plsu a removable back cover and a very pretty design, with tiny bezels.

The CPU inside is a Snapdragon S4 quad core at 1.7 GHz and other specs include 32 GB of storage, a microSD card slot and Bluetooth 4.0. There’s also NFC, a removable 3000 mAh battery and the camera uses Exmor RS sensor, HDR and Full HD video recording. Frankly speaking, I can’t say I’m really excited by the PS4, but I’m quite happy with the idea of a PlayStation phablet. How about you?

                

   

   

[Thanks Simon Drake]

Nokia Lumia EOS Pureview Phone Runs Windows Phone Blue

Nokia Lumia EOS Pureview Phone Runs Windows Phone Blue

After the yesterday Nokia concept today we have a new one, designed by Karl Panase and called Lumia EOS Pureview. The handset runs Windows Phone 8 Blue, the new release that is expected to come in a few months. The device features a pretty familiar design, not so far from Lumia 920, but much thinner and with a camera area that’s much like the Pureview 808.

Nokia Lumia EOS features a 1.7 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor, most likely a quad core one, especially since the Adreno 320 GPU is also mentioned. We’ve also got a special Nokia imaging chipset, 32 GB of storage, 2 GB of RAM and a card slot. At the back there’s a 41 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, a high power Xenon flash and a 1/1.2″ sensor size. There’s also an ND filter, 10x lossless digital zoom, geotagging, face detection and improved low light abilities.

The camera does 1080p 30 fps video capture and has lossless digital zoom when filming as well. The Nokia Lumia EOS concept has a secondary 2 MP cam at the front, an IPS LCD touchscreen with a 4.65 inch diagonal and a 1280 x 768 pixel resolution. This is a PureMotion HD+ ClearBlack display and the phone measures 10 mm and weighs 185 grams, just like the Lumia 920, although it looks a bit thinner. Finally we’ve got a non removable Li-Ion 2300 mAh battery on board, but I frankly wish the battery was bigger.