HTC One 2/ HTC M8 Take 3: Techradar Create a Superb 3D Render (Video)
After seeing a bunch of HTC M8 renders that more or less impressive, we’ve found a truly fantastic piece of work here by TechRadar. Owen Hughes tipped us about this beautiful render, that’s detailed in the video below on the TechRadar YouTube channel.
This is pure gadget pr0n, since this HTC One 2 as they call it adopts an innovative compound construction for improved ergonomics. We’ve got a 2.3 GHz quad core Snapdragon 800 CPU inside, 3 GB of RAM and a 4000 mAh battery. The screen is a 5 inch 2K display, an edge to edge unit that looks stunning and is very crisp.
Android 4.4 KitKat and HTC Sense 6.0 take care of the software side of things, while a 10 Ultrapixel camera can be found at the back. The camera has a new UI and the general UI is now more fluid and better organized. We’ve got a fingerprint sensor integrated into the HTC logo at the bottom of the screen, that unlocks the device with a single touch.
The HTC M8 comes in 16, 32 and 64 GB storage versions with microSD card slot included in the mix.
[via Techradar]
The Nokia Communicator is Back! Lumia 1001 Render Awakens its Spirit!
David Quijada takes a lot of risks with the Nokia Lumia 1001 concept, especially since he leaves a lot of room empty in the keyboard part of the device. The result is a brand new Communicator, a device that’s a redesign of the Nokia 9300.
From what I can see, we’re getting a dual display device and the back side of the keyboard looks particularly cool, especially the camera integration and surrounding area, probably with speakers included there as well. The QWERTY keyboard is well lit, but oddly spaced and we’ve also got a D pad probably for games and such.
The long rectangle format of the screen may be weird in landscape mode, but seems to work in portrait. If this device would be just a tiny bit wider, it would be solid gold. Is there any room on the market of 2014 for a Windows Phone-based Nokia Communicator of sorts?
[via Deviantart]
Xiaomi Preparing Own Modular Phone, the Magic Cube; Here’s a Render!
It appears that the Motorola Ara and Phoneblocks are in good company, now that Xiaomi is preparing its own modular phone. We’ve got a render to go with that information and it’s shown below.
You know the basics here: you have a core device and you add pieces of technology to it, like extra RAM, extra storage and all sorts of camera modules and connectivity modules. Xiaomi has something called the Magic Cube planned and seeing how they have one of Google’s men on the team, Hugo Barra, I expect great things from them.
The Xiaomi modular phone‘s render was shown on the company CEO’s Weibo profile page, but it has been removed since. The device looks a bit like the Project Ara from Moto, only it has less switchable parts, something 3 or 4 of them. The other modular handsets we’ve seen till now even had 8 to 10 pieces to swap out. Will this trend die or is it here to stay?
[via Androidheadlines]
HTC One 2/ HTC M8 New Render is a Blocky Rectangle
HTC M8 is coming and I mean the follow-up to the HTC One. No matter what the name will be, the device has to be spectacular, or else HTC may not have a future. Well, Christof Gruber has his own vision of the new device and he shows it to us below.
This HTC M8 concept features a 9 mm thick case and a 4.95 inch 2K display, as well as a quad core Snadpragon 800 CPU. The OS here is Android 4.4.1 with HTC Sense 6.0. We’ve got 4 GB of DDR3 RAM inside, 32 GB of storage and a 6 Ultrapixel camera. Upfront there’s a 2.9 MP cam and on board we find HTC Zoe 2, GPS, Glonass, WiFi and BoomSound.
The battery here is a 3200 mAh unit, that would explain how bulky this model seems. Infrared is included among the specs, plus a fingerprint scanner that I spotted below the camera. The cam seems to have a dual LED flash and the screen upfront looks like an edge to edge affair. Does this device look blocky or what?
[Thanks Christof Gruber]
HTC M8 Take 1: Ancel Lim Version
We’re probably a month or at most two away from the big unveiling of HTC’s new flagship phone, also known as HTC M8. I’m pretty sure the codename won’t stick, since the HTC One was the M7 before it. Today we catch a glimpse of the newcomer as imagined by Ancel Lim.
He gathered all the info he had from various leaks and created this render you see here. The second generation HTC one comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 new generation processor, a quad core 2.2 GHz Krait 400 CPU, as well as a Full HD 5 inch screen with Gorilla Glass 2 protection. We’ve also got a microSD card slot inside, 4G LTE connectivity and NFC.
There will be a dual SIM version of HTC M8, without 4G and Snapdragon 800, but rather with a quad core 1.7 GHz Krait 300 CPU. Keep in mind that Beats Audio is gone here, but we do have BoomSound speakers at the front. The novelty here compared to the predecessor is that the handset is thinner, flatter, more rectangular and it has smaller bezels.
[Thanks Ancel Lim]

