We’ve missed Edgar Mkrtchyan’s excellent Nokia designs, but luckily he’s back with a fresh one, called Nokia 990. This handset runs the first updated version of WP8, Windows Phone 8+ aka Portico and it has some interesting accessories. For one thing the designer imagined a mini music player that connects to the smartphone via NFC.
There’s also wireless charging support here and I have to say that the little player is actually a pretty cute and cool idea. The player has a microUSB port for charging its tiny 500 mAh battery. Back to the phone, the Nokia 990 concept packs a 4 or 8 core CPU, with either 1.5 GHz or 1.8 GHz in frequency. Other features include 2 GB of RAM, a 5 inch PureMotion HD+ screen with a 1080p resolution and Gorilla Glass 3 protection. The handset uses a magnesium alloy frame and a polycarbonate back shell, that also involves some aluminum.
Edgar Mkrtchyan’s Nokia render measures 11 mm in thickness and packs a 16 megapixel camera, a PureView sensor with Full HD video capture and double LED flash. There are two microphones available for sound recording and a secondary 3.2 megapixel camera upfront. The storage is 32/64 GB, plus microSD plus SkyDrive. There are also 4 loudspeakers by Monster on board and a 3600 mAh battery to juice up the unit. This truly looks like a powerful and reasonably slim model, that will take on the likes of HTC Droid DNA.

We’ve seen 5 inch Nokia concepts, 4 inch models and many more formats, even tablets, but so far not so many with a diagonal size of the Galaxy S III, 4.8 inches. This time we get this treat courtesy of Karl Panase, who sent us the Nokia N1000 concept running Nokia Donna.
We call it Nokia Donna, although we’d call it Symbian Donna, but the Finns themselves gave up on that name. This model features a 4.8 inch HD display, exactly like the Galaxy S III, although I’m not sure what kind of technology is used here. Could it be AMOLED? SLCD? IPS TFT? LCD? PureMotion HD+ ClearBlack? We have no idea, but the designer promised more features will be unveiled soon. I imagine that this model features a quad core CPU, maybe a 20 MP camera and also an edge to edge screen.
Nokia N1000 has a design that reminds me of the Lumia 800 and 900 and it seems to run Angry Birds Star Wars for some reason, although I don’t think that the game is available in the Nokia Store yet. The phone may look interesting, but seeing how big-bodied recent Nokias are, with a 4.8 inch display it’s probably the same size as a Galaxy Note II…