Designer Ben Ling proposes a very slight update to the Galaxy Note II, that is supposed to hit the USA stores soon. He imagined the Samsung Galaxy Note II Plus, a device that keeps about 80% of the specs of the predecessor and adds minor changes. One of them is replacing the physical Home button with a touch one and another is making the device less elongated, from what I can see. We’re still dealing with a 5.5 inch phablet with a Super AMOLED TFT display and Corning Gorilla Glass 2 protection. The screen here supports a 720p resolution and on board we find a quad core 1.7 GHz Exynos 4412 processor, as well as a Mali 400 MP GPU. The OS of choice is Android 4.1.1. Jelly Bean with the promise of updating to Android 4.2 ASAP. TouchWiz is applied on top of the OS and at the back of the device we find a 12 megapixel camera with LED flash and 16x digital zoom.
The camera is capable of 1080p HD video recording and there’s also a front 2 megapixel camera, with 1080p capture as well. Inside the phablet we find a Li-Ion 3300 mAh battery and other features available include 16/32/64 GB of storage, 2 GB of RAM, NFC and Bluetooth 4.0. The S Pen stylus is kept and the thickness of the device is 9.3 mm. Would you buy a Note II with these small upgrades?

I can’t remember the last time I saw a Windows Phone concept that wasn’t a Lumia or a Surface Phone… well, now we have a Sony Xperia Windows Phone 8 device on our hands. Sanjaya Kanishka created this design, with specs that remind me of the Samsung Ativ S a bit. Sony Xperia W features a 4.8 inch True HD IPS+ LED backlit TFT display, with a 768 x 1366 pixel resolution and 326 ppi. The display uses Mobile Bravia Engine 2 technology and White Magic too, plus Corning Gorilla Glass 2 protection. Inside the handset there’s a 1.5 GHz quad core Krait CPU, a Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset with Adreno 320 GPU. We also get 2 GB of RAM, 16/32GB of storage and a microSD card slot. At the back there’s a 16 megapixel camera, with Exmor R sensor and Xenon flash.
The cam is able to do 2160p 30 fps video recording and it’s accompanied by a front 2 MP shooter. HSDPA is available as well, LTE too, DLNA, WiFi and micro HDMI as well. Xloud is available for speakers and Sony Xperia W also has NFC. Powering up the smartphone is a 3500 mAh Li-Ion battery and we even have a price from the designer: 500 euros, free of contract. The design is also pretty nice and looks a bit like the ASUS PadFone, a bit like the Xperia Ray and Samsung Omnia 7 combined.

Ben Ling imagined a bunch of Sony Xperia phablets dubbed Sony Xperia Pad and Xperia Pad L, that you can see pictured below. The devices rely on a 5.8 inch touchscreen, which would fit the rumors we’ve heard about Sony making  an Android device with a huge diagonal. The 5.8 inch screen here is a Full HD TFT one, that’s both shatter proof and scratch resistant. Sony Xperia Pad’s specs include a 16 megapixel camera with LED flash, a HDMI port, Sony White Magic technology and a quad core 2.3 GHz Krait CPU. The handset uses Exmor RS tech for the camera, that offers Full HD capture and 16x digital zoom. There’s also a front 2 megapixel camera, with 1080p capture as well. For the graphics we’ve got an Adreno 320 GPU and the measurements of the device include a thickness of 9.2 mm for the Pad and 9.5 for the Pad L.
NFC is in board as well and the weight of the device is 170 grams for the Pad and 181 for the Pad L. 2GB of RAM and Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean are also here, as well as 32 GB of storage. From what I can see in the pictures the differences between devices are the upper and lower edge of the handsets. You should also know that the Xperia Pad uses a Li-Ion 3000 mAh battery, while the Xperia Pad L has a Li-Ion 3300 mAh battery. Quite an interesting design, but a bit too compact for my taste…

The Nexus 10 tablet has been in the rumors for a while now and leaks are becoming more and more detailed. Some specs have leaked online and before we get a press picture of the device there are some mockups of the 10 inch Nexus tablet I’d like to show you. They’re made by Deviantart user CapuchinoMedia, who imagined the fresh family of Nexus devices. At the bottom we have the LG Nexus 4, the smallest of the gang, then the Nexus 7 and finally the Nexus 10, that seems to adopt the same industrial design as the Nexus 7. From what I’ve heard the new model will be made by Samsung and it may end up looking like the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 and a bit like the Galaxy Note 10.1. Rumored specs include a dual core Cortex A15 processor, 2 GB of RAM, 16 GB of storage and a crazy good 2560 x 1600 pixel resolution, courtesy of Samsung technology.
At the back there should be a 5 megapixel camera and other usual features include NFC, WiFi, dual speakers at the front and a front facing camera. The OS here will most likely be Android 4.2, just like on the LG Nexus 4. Hopefully the model will be reasonably priced, although that’s pretty hard with such strong hardware. Tomorrow we’ll be back with some leaked pics of the Nexus 10 tablet, but till then you have these mockups. Do you like them?

The concept Nokia models made by Edgar Mkrtchyan are simply stunning, so it was a joy when he sent us a new model, the Nokia Lumia 940, made entirely of carbon. The device adopts a more rounded approach to the usual Lumia design and runs Windows Phone 8, as the author claims.
The material at the back reminds me of a knitted sweater or of a basket made of small, flexible branches. It may be the same idea of weaving kevlar like on the Motorola Droid RAZR. Anyway, you should know that the Nokia Lumia 940 features a carbon shell with a large curved screen and inside there’s a dual core 1.5 GHz processor, while upfront we’ve got a 4.5 inch PureMotion HD+ 1280 x 768 screen with Gorilla Glass protection.
At the back there’s a 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, dual LED flash and 1080p video capture. Powering up the entire unit is a 3000 mAh battery and as far as connectivity goes, there’s microUSB, NFC, Bluetooth and Nokia 3.5 AV. I find this to be a very interesting handset and among the advantages of carbon I can think of is its low weight and pretty high durability. Fancy the Nokia 940?

Taking a break from all those Xperia bigshots, today we present you with the Sony Xperia Plus, the creation of Ben Ling. This is a 3.7 inch handset with a TFT shatter proof and scratch resistant screen, that supports a 480 x 854 pixel resolution and packs a 12 megapixel camera with LED flash.
Its design reminds me of a smaller and cheaper Sony handset, an Xperia Mini, but there’s more to it than meets the eye. The device’s camera features an Exmor RS sensor, with 16x digital zoom and Full HD video recording. There’s also a front 1.3 megapixel camera with 720p capture and a dual core 1 GHz Krait CPU inside the phone. The processor is a Snapdragon S4 one, with Adreno 225 GPU and you should also know that the Sony Xperia Plus measures 10.5 mm in thickness and weighs 101 grams.
It sports 768 MB of RAM, NFC, Android 4.0.4 and promises to upgrade to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Ben Ling also added 8 GB of storage, Sony Mobile Bravia Engine 3, Sony White Magic tech, xLOUD and a 1750 mAh battery. Finally, we get a multitouch experience with up to 4 fingers and a microSD card slot too. Fancy this model? It’s just an Xperia concept, remember that!

While 5 inch seems to be the max diagonal a supposed 2012 Nexus phone could have, Killu Chan goes past that with a new Sony Xperia concept. I’m talking about the Sony Xperia Nexus, pictured below in a new mockup and packing some hardcore specs, that include 128 GB of storage and 4GB of RAM.
The device comes with a LED backlit LCD capacitive touchscreen with a 720 x 1280 pixel resolution and 5.5 inch diagonal with 408 ppi density. The screen supports multitouch for up to 10 fingers, relies on Sony Mobile Bravia Engine technology and benefits from Gorilla Glass 2 protection. On the connectivity side we’ve got LTE, HSDPA at 42 Mbps, WiFi, DLNA, Bluetooth 4.0, microUSB 2.0, microHDMI and probably NFC as well. At the back of the Xperia Nexus there’s an 18 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss Optics Vario Tessar, autofocus, Xenon flash and image stabilization.
Upfront we’ve got a 3.15MP camera and under the hood there’s a Li-Ion 3500 mAh battery. As far as software goes, we’ve got Android Key Lime Pie running the show, on top of an Nvidia Tegra 4 quad core 2.1 GHz processor. Wireless charging is supported on this revolutionary model, that also relies on a nano SIM card. This model greatly reminds me of a Cybershot camera of sorts and some older concepts from back in 2008 and 2009. This is probably the first phone with the battery, signal and hour moved to the bottom and the virtual buttons so small… Interesting idea!

Bob Freking is a regular on our website since no day passes without him emailing a concept to us or two… An example is his latest work, HTC Two X, the successor of the One X. The idea Bob had was to combine the kickass camera on the HTC Titan II with ImageSense technology, the screen of the HTC J Butterfly and a quad core processor. The result can be seen below and teased in the video at the end of the article.
So what we’re dealing with here is the HTC Two X concept, that packs a 16 megapixel ImageSense camera, a quad core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor and a 1080p Super LCD 3 display. Inside is a huge 3000 mAh battery, that would make even the likes of Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX jealous. Also, this model runs “the latest version of Android”, that’s probably Android 4.2 or should be in the near future. The device also has 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of internal storage and I wonder if this one gets a microSD slot or not.
What I remember about the HTC One X from this spring is that it had some screen problems, a bit of overheating, people complained about its lack of microSD card slot and its microSIM tray was hard to remove. The thing I liked most about it was the camera, that frankly speaking is superior to the one of the Samsung Galaxy S III and Sony Xperia S. Are you ready for the Two X?

Following the hoax over here, I’m afraid to say the image below shows a real phone, since I wouldn’t want to misinform anyone. All I can say is that this supposed Sony C650X Odin handset came to us from the very prolific Jsus, who has made us believe he created real phones before. So, let’s find out what the Odin is about. Leaked about two weeks ago in benchmarks, this is supposed to be a 2013 Sony flagship phone, one that packs a 5 inch display The handset runs Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean and has a 5 inch display with a 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution, for a 441 ppi pixel density. We also get a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro quad core CPU inside, with Adreno 320 GPU and 2 GB of RAM. HTC recently announced a 1080p display phone, so nothing surprising here.
However, Sony has yet to make an official debut for a quad core phone, so we’re waiting on that. The really interesting thing about the image that Jsus sent us (and probably created) is that the facade of the phone is almost all glass, with that 5 inch display being very well integrated and covering the Xperia logo, hidden under glass. I imagine that the Android buttons are now virtual, like on the Galaxy Nexus. Also, It would be cool if the lower side would light up in some way… So, what’s the verdict? Fake or real?

Vilim Plužarić created a Nokia concept phone called FX800, that has become famous on a couple of blogs and sites over the past days. We’re dealing with an unique smartphone, that started from the idea of the Nokia 8910 Titanium from back in 2002, in a more evolved version. This is a 4.65 inch smartphone with a titanium unibody case and obviously Windows Phone 8 on board.
Nokia Lumia FX800 features a 4.65 inch ClearBlack AMOLED HD screen, a laser cut body and measures just 8 mm in thickness. It packs a 1.5 GHz dual core Snapdragon S4 processor and 1 GB of RAM, plus 16 GB of storage. These specs are very much like the ones of the Lumia 920 in real life, to which the designer added a 12 megapixel camera. The screen supports a 720p resolution and its design seems to be a combo between the Nokia 8910 Titanium, Nokia X7 and the N9 model from last year.
People have been criticizing a lot the user of plastic materials like polycarbonate for modern handsets. They want the styling of the iPhone 5 with glass and aluminum and I expect that future Windows Phone and Android devices will take that requirement into account. So, are you for titanium or plastic materials? Have your say in the comments below!

Recent leaks have shown that Google is preparing more than one Nexus phone for this autumn launch. They may include a LG Nexus 4 device, a HTC Nexus 5, as well as a Samsung Galaxy Nexus II. The latter gets a mockup from Bob Freking, inspired by Holo and Nexus Q and pictured below. The Galaxy Nexus 2 has the same screen as the Galaxy Note II, a HD AMOLED one, but no longer pentile. Inside there’s an Exynos quad core processor and other features include an 8 megapixel camera, plus there should also be 2 GB of RAM on board and at least 16 GB of storage. As you can see, the device has an elongated design and its back side reminds me of the first Galaxy Nexus.  I guess that the OS on board is Android 4.2 or something like it, according to leaks.
The diagonal size should be more or less the same 4.6 inch affair and when Bob said the screen is the same as the one of the Galaxy Note II, he probably referred to type, not diagonal. I wouldn’t mind seeing a 5 inch Galaxy Nexus II, if the display was integrated in a more compact way. So, what do you think of this concept? Also, on a side note: Google will unveil its Nexus Phones in October 29th, so be ready!

I’ve been reading rumors all day regarding the 2012 Google Nexus Phones, that may be unveiled soon. It appears that there’s a LG Nexus 4 out there, plus a Sony Nexus, Galaxy Nexus II and even a HTC Nexus 5. The latter fits what Hasan Kaymak has sent me a couple of days ago: his HTC Nexus concept with a Nvidia Tegra 4 CPU inside. We’re dealing here with a handset that packs a 5 inch 1080p Super LCD3 display, just like the HTC J Butterfly announced officially yesterday. HTC Nexus 5 also comes with 2 GB of RAM, an 8 megapixel camera at the back with LED flash, a 2.1 megapixel cam with LED as well and WiFi, plus Bluetooth 4.0. There’s also NFC and LTE and powering it all up is a 2,550 mAh battery. Wireless charging is available Android Jelly Bean runs the show, maybe in version 4.2.
Beats Audio technology is included and the device comes in 3 colours: white, grey and orange. The smartphone reminds me a bit of the HTC One X, but in a flatter and more rectangular way, if I can say so…