Jsus is the same mystery designer who sent us what looked like a real Xperia Play 2 and now he’s up to new tricks. This time he created a new and futuristic Sony Xperia concept, one that features a transparent Bravia screen and is only dubbed Xperia 2013 for now. I can imagine that this model is somehow related to the Xperia Arc, seeing how it seems to be curved a bit. The idea of a transparent smartphone hasn’t been exploited enough and Sony did have an attempt at making such a phone, through the Sony Ericsson Pureness. That phone was the world’s first handset with a transparent screen actually, but it didn’t develop the idea any further. In the case of the beautiful Xperia 2013 I can see there’s a blue line around the edges of the phone and it would be cool if that line would light up in the colour blue, as shown here.
The transparency of the display can trigger a myriad of features, most of them based on augmented reality and the camera app will greatly evolve. You will have to rethink focusing, zooming and the entire way you interact with your surroundings. It would also be cool if the user could set the degree of transparency of the screen or only leave areas of the display as a see through space, sort of like a window with parts of fog and pars that are cleared. Now THAT would be cool! How about you? What would you want from an Xperia 2013 phone with transparent screen? A quad core Tegra 4 CPU wouldn’t hurt…

There’s something in the air and that’s fresh Apple product scent, meaning the iPad Mini. Rumored a lot, leaked a lot and almost here, the device just got a mockup created by a Gizmodo reader. Martin Hajek designed a beautiful iPad Mini mockup, that fits all the leaks so far. He included a Lightning port and some comparisons with the bigger iPad and iPhone. The device looks elegant and has some pretty rounded corners and two stereo speakers that should sound great. So, what we have here is a 7.85 inch tablet with Apple branding and anodized aluminum back in different colors, like the iPod Touch. It would be interesting to see brightly colored iPads this time around, differentiating them from the bigger main series models. The color choice would also help Apple sell more to people looking for playful colours, not only black or white.
The iSight camera is discretely integrated and if I were to speculate, I’d say this iPad Mini comes with a 5 megapixel camera, Apple A6 processor, Retina Display resolution, 16, 32 or 64 GB of storage, 1 GB of RAM and it will have a LTE version. iOS 6.0 is available from the get go, plus some new feature or app to lure customers into loving this gizmo more. Maybe a special game or special application for making music or e-reading? A special magazine-based service or social networking app? We’ll see… Till then, good job Martin!

A very interesting thing has happened here at Concept Phones, with one of our readers named Anthony requesting a special design fitted to his preferences and Bob Freking performing that task. Anthony wrote us an email, saying he wants a Motorola Google Nexus phone with RAZR branding and a bunch of specs that you can learn below. We forwarded the request to Bob and this is the result: So, we’re dealing with the Nexus RAZR handset here, with a dual 15 megapixel Carl Zeiss camera with 2D and 3D photo capture and dual LED flash, plus 1080p video recording at 60 fps. The device has brushed aluminum edges and the ability to play back both 2D and 3D content, with support for stereoscopic 3D. As far as display goes, we’ve got a Super AMOLED Plus 1080p screen with a 5 inch diagonal and edge to edge technology. This Nexus concept measures 8.7 mm in thickness, weighs 107 grams and has 2 GB of RAM, as well as 32 GB, 64 GB or 128 GB of built in memory.
At the front we’ve got a 3 megapixel camera and inside the phone there’s a quad core Snapdragon S4 Pro 1.7 GHz processor. Other features include microSD card slot, camera dedicated button and a proprietary charging port on the bottom. Bose audio speakers are on the top and bottom of the device, NFC is here as well and the OS of choice is Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Everything is powered up by a 4000 mAh battery with a non removable unibody integration. The device looks simplistic, very thin and I like that small curve it’s got towards the bottom.
Now remember:  YOU can create your own phone as well, just send us an email and we’ll figure out the ideal design and turn to our friends, the designers.