I was searching the web for some new information on the Samsung Galaxy S IV and I came across the article in the source below, with some interesting pictures and information. Considering how substantial the rumors about the future Galaxy S are, I would have expected to see more leaks or concepts by now… Anyway, we’ve got a bunch of Galaxy S4 pics for you below:
You should know that rumors say we should expect Mobile World Congress 2013 to bring us the new Samsung flagship, with specs that include an Exynos 5 CPU (ARM15) or maybe Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 Pro quad core CPU. It will also have 2 GB of RAM and rumors say that the device will sport a 5 inch display this time, with a Full HD resolution and OLED technology. The S4 will bring 4G LTE connectivity, Android 4.1.1. Jelly Bean as the OS of choice and 16/32/64 GB of storage. An improved battery will also be here and for some reason there’s a dual camera at the back, on this Samsung concept.
We’ve got a front camera that seems to be pretty powerful and other specs should include NFC, a microSD card slot and maybe even a nano SIM slot. Maybe this time Samsung will surprise us and give up plastic for its case and opt for aluminum and glass, maybe anodized aluminum or maybe kevlar like Motorola. From what I see here, we might as well consider the Galaxy S4 a dumbed down Galaxy Note II, if I may say so. Where’s the wow factor and the new specs?

While everyone is looking for an iPad killer, Google and its hardware partners could sneak up and deliver a blow to Apple in another segment: laptops. At least that’s what Bob Freking imagined, when he created the Google DroidBook Nexus, a beautiful laptop concept shown below. I’ve heard rumors that the next Android will actually be focused on netbooks and bigger devices, but that’s just a rumor.
Bob Freking mentions that after buying Motorola, Google discontinued Lapdocks for the Moto phones, so they may be preparing their own desktop with Android or their own laptop. The DroidBook Nexus features a 3 megapixel HD front camera, uses a Core i7 CPU with Intel Integrated Graphics (not my first choice for a Google setup) and also features a 17 inch 2560 x 1440 pixel display. The result is a laptop concept that’s thinner than a MacBook and has a full keyboard.
It will reach 12 hours of usage and it even has an optical drive, if there’s any need for that… Windows games and apps can be converted to Android through a special app and the device is able to run famous games like Minecraft, Resident Evil 6, Crysis, Final Fantasy Online and the famous app Photoshop. The designer wasn’t clear about the OS on the device, so I imagine it’s a cross between Chrome OS and Android 5.0, or something like it. Price this baby right and we’ve got a hit!

Deviantart user Slatd, the same creator of the Nokia N1 Android phone is now back with another concept. This time is a new generation Nexus phone, one made by Sony and Google. Meet the Xperia Nexus, a curved handset with a very slim design and a look inspired by the Xperia TX, as the designer himself claims.
I’m guessing this model runs Android Key Lime Pie, has a great 12 megapixel camera, quad core Snapdragon S4 Pro CPU and 1.5 or 2 GB of RAM. A microSD card slot, NFC and LTE are probably on the specs list, together with what looks like a 4.5 inch 768p screen. Such a display choice is trendy nowadays, just look at Nokia’s latest Lumia phone. Seeing how the body of the Sony Google Nexus phone is curved a bit, I expect a fantastic waistline, maybe something lower than 7 mm, which would be a record breaker for a mainstream device.
The idea of a Google Nexus phone made by someone other than HTC or Samsung has been around from day one, with LG being the preferred candidate for that and Motorola too. Sony was never really included in this category, although in November we could be surprised by 5 new Nexus phones, as the rumors are saying…

Sony Xperia Nexus, a Beautiful Curved Device With Android Key Lime Pie

Nokia Lumia 8 aka Nokia L8 is a concept Windows Phone 8 device created by Saeid Khajevand and pictured below. He imagined a handset that runs WP8, has a 41 megapixel PureView camera, what looks like a potent speaker at the front bottom and pretty much the same design as current hot Lumias.
You can see that the upper side is a bit more sloped than what we have right now and the device is a bit less rounded. All the major buttons are on one side, the right side, including On/Off, volume and camera, while the camera mechanism at the back seems way too compact to offer PureView 41 MP action. What’s more interesting is that Windows Phone 8 silver logo that extends from the back and acts like a kickstand, a cool one actually. Also it seems that we’ve got the microUSB port at the bottom, together with yet another speaker, divided into smaller pieces.
What I want from a futuristic Lumia phone is first of all to get rid of all that bulkiness and weight. As you probably know already, the Nokia Lumia 820 and 920 are quite thick and heavy, actually much thicker than current Android hotshots, for example. While Nokia may justify that through big batteries and camera sensors, the future will make even those thinner, so maybe the next Lumia flagship will go below 9 mm or even 8 mm this time, something that HTC and Motorola have been doing for a while now… Do you fancy the Nokia L8?

The Ferrari World Design Contest 2011 was an initiative meant to gather designs of Ferrari vehicles from all over the world, for the sake of diversity. Well, this happened and included design students from over 50 schools all over, but in the end the winner was the Ferrari Eternity or Eternita concept, created by South Korea students.

Kim Cheong Ju, Ahn Dre and Lee Sahngseok from Hongik University took the prize, revealing a beautiful hybrid electric sports car. Eternity has a body made totally out of carbon fiber, for the sake of lower weight and also on top there’s a lithium coating for extra engine power. The fuel of choice is hydrogen for this supercar, relying on the system “Fly-Wheel Energy Storage”.

Friction reduction and smooth driving is achieved to the Maglev system and this may certainly be the future. Of course, fans of the traditional and classic Ferrari design will say that they don’t like this concept one bit, but it’s time to evolve, don’t you think?

The Mercedes Biome concept started off as an idea in the 2010 Design Challenge organized by LA Auto Show. They required the participants to create a vehicle that weighs under 1,000 lbs and that is still able to carry 4 people. This Mercedes car is very futuristic, especially since the main idea behind is that the vehicle grows from a seed.

Biome relies on symbiosis, that makes it part of the ecosystem and the car collects energy from the sun. The Mercedes concept is based on nature and biotechnology, plus interaction with Mother Earth. It acts like one of trees and laves and it even collects energy from forests. This is a completely biodegradable car and its wheels are grown from 4 separate seeds.

Also, the parts of the vehicle are genetically engineered and the exterior grows from the Mercedes symbol star on the rear. Meanwhile, the interior of the car grows from the star on the front… What’s really cool is that this sci-fi ride generates oxygen after using up the “BioNectar” it relies on for fuel. All I can say is… am I dreaming?

Can you imagine a Formula 1 Lamborghini car that can also compete at Le Mans? Well, such a design was created by Sabino Leerentveld and you can see the concept Lamborghini below. This car weighs 700 kg and packs an incredible 1,200 horsepower.

The vehicle borrows design traits from the top class racing segments. Lamborghini LMP-F has a front side and lateral air intakes that look a lot like those used in Formula 1, while the rear side of the supercar is classic Le Mans race car design. The specifications of this model are imagined ones: 22,000 rpm engine, 0-60 mph in 1.8 seconds and top speed of 263 mph.

Also, this Lambo prototype has a low downforce aerodynamic setup and the designer admits that his creations belong in the gaming world for now and not on the track. What do you say?

BMW i8 is one of the latest concepts of the German car maker, that brings forth a 220 horsepower 3 cylinder engine and an electric drive system, borrowed from the BMW i3 and tweaked a bit. This vehicle reaches 100 km/h in under 5 seconds, impressive for the segment it belongs to.

This car will use 3 litres of fuel to run 100 kilometers and another important power source is the big Li-Ion battery. You can charge that from your house supply and give it 35 kilometers of autonomy on electric power alone. Inside, we discover a 2+2 interior, comfortable enough for a family of 4. The BMW i8 uses the LifeDrive architecture, giving it a more sporty twist.

Thus, we find the electric motor in the front axle module, while the combustion engine stays at the rear. These sections are connected through BMW’s trademark energy tunnel, that other car makers would call transmission tunnel. The i8 has a low center of gravity and distribution of 50/50, which is perfect for this hybrid-supercar concept.

Ben Ling is back at it again, designing Sony Xperia handsets, this time with a model that could easily rival the Samsung Galaxy S III. After all it has the same diagonal size and a quad core CPU. Sony Xperia TL is pictured below and comes with a 4.8 inch Full HD TFT screen with shatter proof protection and also resilience against scratches.
At the back we find a 14 megapixel camera with LED flash and Exmor R sensor, plus 16 x digital zoom and full HD video recording at 1080p. Xperia TL has a front 2 megapixel camera with 1080p capture as well and inside there’s a quad core Snapdragon S4 Pro 1.5 GHz processor, that should be more powerful than the Exynos quad on the Galaxy S III. There’s also an Adreno 225 GPU in here, NFC, 1 GB of RAM and 16 GB of storage. This new Sony Xperia concept measures 7.8 mm, so it’s pretty thin, but not as thin as the Motorola Droid RAZR, at 7.1 mm.
It runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and uses Sony technologies like xLOUD and Sony Mobile Bravia Engine 2. Finally the specs list is rounded up by a Li-Ion 1910 mAh battery, Bluetooth 4.0 and a microSD card slot. The handset weighs 125 grams and its design is rather strange, since it seems like a much smaller phone than the specs describe. It could end up being very wide…

It’s that time of the year again, when a new Nexus Phone is due and we’re happy with concepts for now, like the Google Nexus 5, created by Deviantart user r4yNTv. We’re dealing with a handset that features a 5 inch HD Super AMOLED display and an Exynos processor, as well as Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie.
The screen on the Nexus 5 has a real RGB Matrix and anti glare Gorilla Glass 2 technology. Inside we’ve got an Exynos 5 processor, a dual core Cortex A15 1.7GHz unit with Mali T604 GPU, accompanied by 2 GB of LPDDR3 RAM. Other features include a 2800 mAh Li-Ion battery and for some reason a 5 megapixel camera with F/1.8, better lens and sensor, 1080p capture at 60 fps and 720p capture at 120 FPS. There’s also a 2.1 megapixel front camera for videocalls.
Inside we’ve got either 16, 32 or 64 GB of storage and up to 2 TB of external storage via microSDXC card slot. HSPA+ with 42 Mbps connectivity is available, as well as LTE with 100 Mbps. There’s a touch sensitive area below and above the display and you can touch and swipe onto the screen to show the onscreen buttons. The powerful 28 nm chipset inside offers 1080p video playback at 60 FPS without lag and with up to 40 Mbit/s. Finally we’ve got high definition stereo speakers on board so you can watch Bane fight Batman as if you were at the movies.
Quite a monster of a smartphone right? And I guess that Samsung’s behind it, considering the CPU… The design has a hint of Samsung Galaxy S III in it, if you ask me. What do you think?

Indian designer Rahul Sharma brings us a very interesting HTC concept phone called HTC Apocalypse, with Android Key Lime Pie as the OS. Under the motto “Built to Dominate”, this wide handset has a very nice back texture and a very simple design, that’s also appealing. It also seems to have no real edges, so we’re dealing with an edge to edge display affair. HTC Apocalypse has a 2 GHZ AMD quad core processor with GeForce EVGA GTX GPU and a 4.8 inch display with IPS LED technology and oleophobic coating. This handset features 2 GB of DDR2 RAM, Android Key Lime Pie as the OS and HTC Sense 4.5 with Biosense. Speech to text is available too, plus Read Aloud, Audio Browsing and Smart Voice, maybe some sort of S Voice rival. The screen resolution is 1920 x 1080, with 2D/3D switching available. HTC Apocalypse also offers a electrosensitive display, that allows you to select without touching, probably by simply hovering the finger above the selection.
There’s also a dual 2 megapixel camera for 3D video conferencing and support for the latest connectivity tech: LTE, WiMAX, quad band. Face and gesture recognition are involved, as well as augmented reality. This HTC concept design measures 6.65 mm, being one of the world’s thinnest smartphones. It also comes with 64 GB of storage, microSD card slot, wireless charging, heat charging (through body heat), side scrolling sensors, NFC and a 21 megapixel SLR-style HD camera with physical zoom and retractable lenses.
Under the hood we’ve got a 3600 mAh battery (Li Ion), enhanced with 800 charge cycles. At the rear there’s the familiar Kevlar coating from the Motorolas. Sounds like a doable device for the end of 2013… I guess.