Archive for 02/01/2013 - 03/01/2013
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.
[Thanks Edgar Mkrtchyan]
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 One Tab is Inspired by the Design of HTC One and Has Huge Speakers
Mohammad Mahdi Azimi has become a regular on our site, since the
designer has created quite a few interesting designs lately. The latest
work involves the HTC One Tab, a slate inspired by the HTC One phone,
announced exactly one week ago.
It reminds me a bit of the proportion of the HTC Flyer, but the back is totally HTC One, with Beats Audio also on board. As you can see, the two BoomSound speakers from the top and bottom of the handset have been moved to the sides of the tablet, but you can also see them as on the top/bottom, if you hold the tablet in landscape mode, which you probably will.
There’s also a front camera here, a main back camera without flash, that’s probably a 5 or 8 MP unit. I expect a kickass audio experience out of this model and the Snapdragon 600 CPU inside, plus 2 GB of RAM and at least 32 GB of storage. The design would be unibody, with an aluminum case and HTC Sense 5.0 in a slightly modified version to fit a tablet. Fancy the HTC One Tab as the future HTC tablet or will that dream never come to life?
[Thanks Mohammad Mahdi Azimi ]
It reminds me a bit of the proportion of the HTC Flyer, but the back is totally HTC One, with Beats Audio also on board. As you can see, the two BoomSound speakers from the top and bottom of the handset have been moved to the sides of the tablet, but you can also see them as on the top/bottom, if you hold the tablet in landscape mode, which you probably will.
There’s also a front camera here, a main back camera without flash, that’s probably a 5 or 8 MP unit. I expect a kickass audio experience out of this model and the Snapdragon 600 CPU inside, plus 2 GB of RAM and at least 32 GB of storage. The design would be unibody, with an aluminum case and HTC Sense 5.0 in a slightly modified version to fit a tablet. Fancy the HTC One Tab as the future HTC tablet or will that dream never come to life?
[Thanks Mohammad Mahdi Azimi ]
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]
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 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?
[via Deviantart]
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?
[via Deviantart]
Nokia Lumia Watch, a Necessary Device Created by Mohammad Mahmi Azimi
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?
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 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?
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?
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?
[Thanks to Michael Retovona]
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?
[Thanks to Michael Retovona]
Sony Xperia X Concept by Suman Chatterjee is a Worthy HTC One Rival
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?
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?
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?
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?