There’s a great responsability at Samsung, when making the next Galaxy S phone. The Galaxy S III is already a big upgrade from the S II, but what will the next one bring? If you ask designer Jsus, he thinks that the Samsung Galaxy S4 will look something like the mockup below, with a 4.8 inch edge to edge display.
The handset is slightly curved, has a big Home button and no side bezels. On the sides you’ve got metal and the profile of the Galaxy S4 looks pretty thin. Frankly, I like the curves of this model more than the ones of the Galaxy S III. Samsung Galaxy S4 also features a 13 megapixel camera with LED flash and autofocus. The concept measures 6.8 mm in thickness and weighs 123 grams, although they should try to make it a bit thinner.
One thing I always hated about the Samsung Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note II is how slippery they are. I want Samsung to find a way to include a material that doesn’t slip from your hand, maybe some sort of coated aluminum or rubbery material. The way this Galaxy S4 incorporates the display panel is by including it into the design in a way that reminds me of the Nokia N9. Quite an interesting piece of work.

Designer Rahul Sharma from India created a very interesting Samsung Galaxy S IV concept posted on our site. We first detailed the beautiful design of the device and now we’re back with the specifications and hardware details. This is a mockup of the Galaxy S4 for 2013, that has some reasonably realistic specifications. Rahul’s Samsung Galaxy S IV features a polycarbonate body with a 7 mm thick waistline and it weighs 117 grams. It also has pentaband connectivity, LTE, WiMax connectivity and touch sensitive controls with scrolling sensors on the side for menu navigation. Android 4.2 Key Lime Pie is the OS of choice here, powered by a 2 GHz Exynos 5 quad core processor and 2.5 GB of DDR3 RAM. At the back we find a 13.1 megapixel camera with autofocus, 4x physical zoom lenses and 3 point LED flash. There’s also a dual 2 megapixel camera for 3D video calls and gesture tracking, placed at the front of the handset.
On the connectivity side, this concept offers WiFi, NFC, Bluetooth 4.0, wireless charging and heat charging via the PowerFelt technology. The screen uses electro sensitive touch technology, great for peek and preview functions and gaming graphics. Finally, we get a 3600 mAh Li-Ion battery with enhanced 1000 charge cycles for extra resilience. Speech to text, audio browsing, stereo FM radio, accelerometer, barometer and gyroscope are all on board as well. As far as Samsung proprietary functions are concerned, we’ve got S Vision (augmented reality, S Voice 2 (new voice assistant), S Play (new gaming service) and S Surround (Samsung sound immersion technology).
This one is a fantastic and futuristic design from Rahul Sharma and I’m looking forward to see other designs of the Samsung Galaxy S IV like this one. Congrats Rahul!

As you know, the entire Internet is flooded with leaked pictures and specs of the upcoming LG Optimus Nexus phone aka the Mako aka the LG Nexus 4. Codenamed E960, this model is actually a brother of the LG Optimus G model, with some slight modifications. Taking all of the leaked photos into account, Bob Freking created the following “press” picture:
LG Google Nexus features a 1.5 GHz quad core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, with Adreno 320 GPU, 2 GB of RAM and a 4.7 inch display with 768 x 1184 pixel resolution. The odd resolution is generated by the on screen virtual Android buttons, that take up some of the screen estate. At the back of the phone there’s an 8 megapixel camera, so the 13 MP shooter of the Optimus G is not kept this time. The OS of choice is Android 4.2, that may or may not be Key Lime Pie. It may end up as a new flavor of Jelly Bean…
People are complaining about the fact that the LG Nexus 4 is rumored to only offer 8 GB of storage and no microSD card. That would be a huge mistake from its maker and I doubt it would happen. Rumors also say we’ll see this smartphone launched on October 29th, so there’s a little bit more waiting. Let’s enjoy Bob Freking’s render till then!

Imagine the PS Vita combined with the HTC One X… and you get something like the Xperia Play Duo concept, shown below. Remember when Victor Cao teased us with an upcoming concept? It’s been weeks since then, but he delivered and here we are with a new PlayStation Phone or an “Xperia Play 2″, if you want. Victor says that the name “Duo” comes from the fact you can control both sides of the phone, front and back. The back area is basically a touchpad, just like on the PS Vita. Xperia Play Duo seems to have an upper and lower transparent surface, in the areas where you grip the handset for gaming purposes. As far as specs go, you get a 1.6 GHz quad core Krait CPU, 2 GB RAM, Adreno 320 GPU, a 4.6 inch HD touchscreen with anti glare and BE 2. Stereo speakers are also on board, as well as multiplayer support and a 3000 mAh battery.
This Xperia concept runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, it has PlayStation certification, Clear Bass, Clear Audio and an 8 megapixel camera with Full HD video. One touch NFC, Miracast and 32 GB of storage round up the specs list. Xperia Play Duo will also resist water, apparently. Ready to trade your console for a phone?

The designer Frank Tobias has been the author of some of the prettiest Sony Xperia concepts I’ve seen over the past years and now he has a new project. Meet the Sony Xperia X, pictured below and previously rumored on all big sites. This is supposed to be the next big flagship from Sony and a device that will be a gamechanger. There are no specs to go with it, but you can see a very beautiful facade, that’s not interrupted by any buttons or design elements. The earpice is the only disturbance here, other than that we have a perfect glass slate. The screen also looks like an edge to edge affair, even extending to the sides on what looks like two levels of thickness. I expect a metallic ring around the Xperia X and I also expect PlayStation Certification, a quad core CPU, 2 GB of RAM and a 16 megapixel next gen Cybershot camera, if possible.
I’d like the cool new Walkman player with that cool visualizer from the Sony Xperia Tablet S to be present and I wouldn’t mind having a 4.6 inch 1280 x 768 pixel display with Bravia tech on board. 32 GB of storage and a microSD card slot would make it perfect, as well as LTE and NFC. What more you could want from the device? I know, a thickness less than 8.5 mm!