The folks of GSMArena, one of the most trusted sources of news on the web have received from a tipster the image you can see below. It’s supposedly a picture of the Motorola X Phone, the upcoming flagship device from Moto, developed with a big Google contribution. The device is expected to debut at Google I/O 2013 on May 15th and some say it may even end up as a Nexus Phone with Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie on board. Motorola X Phone is expected to use a Snapdragon 800 processor and a 4.7 inch 1280 x 768 pixel display, with an edge to edge setup. One of the best features of the Droid RAZR series, the battery will also be a stunner here, with a 4000 mAh battery present.
The tipster with this leak is saying that this model will have water resistance and dust resistance, plus Gorilla Glass 3 protection. There won’t be a microSD card on board and we may get a touch area at the back of the device, as previously rumored, plus a sapphire glass front. All in all this sounds like a very promising piece of gear, with unique attributes. The question is: Motorola X Phone render or real image?
[Via GSMArena.com]

Now that the Samsung Galaxy S4 has been unveiled, it’s time for Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini rumors to pour in. Those include the CPU, design and even some leaked shots that appeared on the web recently. Today we’re showing you a render of the Galaxy S4 Mini, done by YugaTech. The device relies on the compamy’s System on Chip Exynos 5210, a third SoC in the Exynos 5 lineup. The chipset is based on the ARM big.LITTLE architecture, although these are only rumors and I don’t really expect the phone to be that powerful. The interesting bit here is that this processor doesn’t combine two quad core CPUs, but two dual core ones instead (2x A7 and a 2x A15, maybe).
Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini will be a 4.3 inch smartphone with Android 4.2.2 on board, a qHD resolution and the TouchWiz Nature UX 2.0 applied on top of the OS. The design will be a smaller version of the regular Samsung Galaxy S4.
[via YugaTech]

The Esato board used to produce dozens of beautiful Sony Ericsson concept phones, then Sony renders and then… it sort of stopped. Now we’ve just found a new design, a Sony “iPhone” concept, designed by Esato user Zuckabaecka.
You can see the already trademark metallic huge On/Off button of the Xperia Z, the front side that reminds me of the older Xperias and the back side that’s totally iPhone 5 and a bit of HTC One. The phone feels like of short and “fat” considering the size of the volume and On/Off buttons and sadly, the designer left us with no specs or features.
The device seems to have a metallic back and a metallic frame around its edges. I expect it to pack a 4.5 to 5 inch Full HD screen, at least a 13 megapixel camera and 2 GB of RAM. The rest? Maybe a Snapdragon 600 or 800 CPU, Android 4.2 or 5.0 and 16/32 GB of storage. Would Apple sue for this Sony 2013 design?
[Via Esato]

Although people are already dreaming of 6.3 inch phablets, here comes Deepak Ahuja with a concept of a tablet that’s 5.6 inches in diagonal. This squared slate is dubbed Samsung Galaxy Tab 5.6 and it explores yet another original format for Samsung, after they tried each and every diagonal possible out there.
Galaxy Tab 5.6 runs Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean with the Samsung TouchWiz Nature UX and the screen is a 5.6 inch Super AMOLED panel with a 720 x 1080 pixel resolution and 336 ppi. Inside there’s a quad core processor with 1.3 GHz frequency (Exynos most likely) and at the back we have a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash. At the front there’s a 1.9 MP camera with BSI and all these features make me think about a tablet for the masses, a product that’s both good and reasonably priced.
We get 16/32 GB of storage, 1 GB of RAM, making this a hit of 2011 rather than 2013. Finally we get a 5100 mAh battery and if the designer imagined a price above $200 this model is doomed. Is there any room for this diagonal on the market? Also, this model is 8.2 mm thin, so not exactly “the world’s thinnest”, since Sony Xperia Tablet Z is 6.9 mm in thickness.
[Thanks Deepak Ahuja]

We have seen our fair share of Nexus 5 concepts, but Rahul Sharma takes it up a notch today with a new design, the one shown below. The device has an ArcTouch sensor on the bottom, that glows for notifications and also looks pretty cool, if you ask me.
The same bright area is the Home button of the smartphone and the aim here is to maintain the Nexus design and add a few incremental curves and some edgy corners. The buttons on the bottom are for tasks management and the Back key. The Nexus 5 uses a combo of polycarbonate in the middle part with an anodized aluminum body at the front and a premium finish for the perfect Google flagship phone.
On the right side of the handset there’s a tiny sensor that’s used as the volume rocker and also for navigation. The bottom part of the sensor actually activates the camera. On the left side we’ve got a HDMI port, microSD and microSIM. As far as specs go, we get a 1.9 GHz Snapdragon 800 CPU, Android Key Lime Pie and 2 GB of ReRAM (resistible RAM made of memresistors). There’s also a 13.1 megapixel camera at the back, hexaband connectivity and a 5 inch Full HD edge to edge display of the SLCD3 kind.
As far as the power source goes, a 3100 mAh Li-Po battery will take care of the power. Google Voice 2, the latest Google Keep and an optional solar panel at the back complete the features list. Does this sound futuristic enough to you?
[Thanks Rahul Sharma]