Designer Christophe Simeon has sent us a great concept, the Samsung Galaxy NxT, which is basically a 5.5 inch phablet with a sliding keyboard mechanism. It reminds me of the ASUS Eee Pad Slider and the Nokia E7, as far as the sliding mechanism goes. The device is also pretty hot and it does look a bit like the Galaxy S4 and S3. The specs are pretty good and the way the QWERTY keyboard is integrated is very original and discrete. Samsung Galaxy NxT measures 8.6 mm, which is very good for a QWERTY keyboard phone. Its case uses titanium, glass and rubber and it also includes 2 microphones, stereo speakers and a 5.55 inch Full HD display.
At the back there’s a 16 megapixel camera with Xenon flash and upfront a 3 megapixel shooter, both with infrared illuminator. We’ve also got the usual Bluetooth 4.0, DLNA, microSD and NFC and microHDMI (bi directional) is also here. Qi inductive charging is present and sadly the designer didn’t mention the CPU or RAM. I guess it’s probably an Exynos 5 Octa and 2 GB of DDR3 RAM, if you ask me.
The keyboard is a 4 row QWERTY, that’s very compact and user friendly. Quite a fantastic work from Cristophe, so congrats on that! There are more Samsung concepts from him, so stay tuned!

Suman Chatterjee sent us a teaser of an upcoming Micromax phone two weeks ago and accepted names for this device. Now he’s back with the finalized unit, that’s called Micromax Nova and runs on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean.
The handset has an elongated design, with rounded corners and proeminent On/OFF and volume buttons. It adopts 3 capacitive buttons below the display and its frame around the screen seems metallic. The device incorporates a 4.8 inch 1080p display and an Intel dual core Atom Clover Trail+ processor, as well as 2 GB of RAM. We’ve also got the Mali T604 GPU, the same one from the Cortex A15 Nexus 10 tablet.
As far as memory goes, we’ve got either 16 or 32 GB of storage, depending on your preference. At the back there’s a 13 megapixel camera and upfront a 2 megapixel shooter. Finally, Suman Chatterjee included here a 2800 mAh battery and said that this smartphone will not only be launched in India, but also Hong Kong, Bangladesh, Nepal, Maldives, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Afghanistan, Brazil and Sri-Lanka.
[thanks Suman Chatterjee]

We have seen at least half a dozen Microsoft Surface phone concepts and today we get one more, courtesy of Michael Matteo. He envisioned the Microsoft TacTile, a Surface smartphone pictured below, in several shots.
These are renders of a person who likes Windows Phone and wants to show off his design skills. He’s got a proprietary port on board, a metallic backing with interesting ridges, as well as rubber edges, or something similar. The backplate of the device is CNC machined out of magnesium, like the Surface tablet. On the colored version, the alloy is anodized, apparently.
We’re dealing with a metallic phone with good grip and the windows Logo at the back is backlit, for an unique identity of the product. The front capacitive buttons and the logo are able to illuminate any color in the RG spectrum. I have to say that the colored versions of this Surface Phone render look kind of hot, youthful and would even give the Lumias a hard time. Nothing about specs, sadly…

The Samsung Galaxy Beam was an interesting device last year, but it’s time for a follow-up, so Deepak Ahuja created the Samsung Galaxy Beam II. The device runs Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean and packs an 8 megapixel camera at the back and a front 2 megapixel camera.
Upfront we’ve got a 5 inch display with Super AMOLED HD+ technology and specs include 16/32GB of storage, 2 GB of RAM and a 9.7 mm thick chassis. The handset incorporates a 1.2 GHz quad core processor and we’ve also got a built in nHD projector. Samsung Galaxy Beam II is quite sleek, considering it incorporates an impressive projector.
The screen looks pretty hot, with its edge to edge format and the back side look elegant and made from a comfy plastic material. The phone has metallic edges, a discrete Home button and rounded corners, sticking to the Galaxy S design trend. Would this model tempt you if it were priced at $300?
[Thanks Deepak Ahuja]

Deepak Ahuja has sent us an impressive number of concept phones lately and here’s one more, this time the very talked about Nexus 5. We’re dealing with a handset that runs Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie and adopts a 16 megapixel camera at the back and a 2.2 MP cam upfront.
Inside there’s a 2.3 GHz quad core processor and upfront there’s a 5.2 inch Super AMOLED display with a Full HD resolution. The device comes with 16/32/64 GB of storage and 3 GB of RAM. For some reason there’s a Motorola vibe about this phone, or maybe a tweaked LG? Anyway, this feels like a behemoth of a phone, very massive and menacing.
At the corners the Nexus 5 is slightly curved and if my eyes aren’t seeing strange things, it appears that the middle part of the handset is slightly less wider, providing better grip. I like the Android buttons at the bottom, that are metallic looking. What do you think of this Nexus 5 concept?
[Thanks Deepak Ahuja]