Deviantart member fabrivera99 created a Nokia Lumia Xpress Music concept and following this name, this should be a music phone. However, for some reason I find it to be more similar to a Communicator or to the Nokia N900 and N950, when it comes to the sliding keyboard at least.
The strange print of the keys makes me think they’re actually capacitive ones, although that doesn’t seem like a move that any phone maker would pull. I like those playback keys on the side, that seem really useful and also notice the old school physical Windows buttons at the bottom. Too bad that the device seems to run Windows Phone 7, with that wasted space on the screen, instead of using the full display area.
The only bad thing I can imagine about this Nokia Lumia Xpress Music handset is that it’s too narrow and thick to be appealing. An unusual diagonal would be something like 3.2 inches here, while a nice one would be 4 inches or even more, although the image doesn’t indicate that. I would use a dual core Snapdragon CPU on the device, 1 GB of RAM, 32 GB of storage and an 8 megapixel camera. Is there any room for sliding QWERTY Nokia phones nowadays?

The idea of a Nokia gaming phone isn’t new and the idea of an Xbox Phone has also been approached before. However, combining the two has only happened in recent history, so it’s an idea worth exploring. That’s why we find the Nokia Lumia 0360 Xbox Phone concept pretty interesting, especially with the N-Gage branding also in the mix.
This phone is considered a tribute to both the N-Gage and the Xbox 360 and the result is a pretty bulky gaming smartphone. Nabkawe5 is the creator of the device and in case you’re wondering Nokia 0360, that’s the name of the handset, features an 8 core Snapdragon processor and a GPU With DX11 support, as well as 4 GB of RAM. There’s also 80 GB of storage with SD cards included and 2 x 2000 mAh batteries. Kinect for Windows Phone 8 is here and a PureHD+ Display provides the imagery.
The integrated Kinect camera will allow you to control the Nokia phone with gestures, the ones specific to the famous Xbox sensor/camera system. One of the two 2000 mAh batteries powers the Kinect camera and the heavy consumption areas, like the 5 inch screen, while the other handles normal phone activities. Do you see such a concept happening?

We’ve seen our share of Samsung Galaxy Note 3 concepts, but one more can never be bad, right? This is where our source, “gpat” comes in, sending us his vision of the next Galaxy Note. We’re dealing with a pretty wide device, as shown in the picture below and the form factor looks a bit like a fatter Note of the first generation.
Inside this concept there’s a Samsung Exynos 8 core big.LITTLE processor, 4 GB of RAM and at the back we’ve got a 12 megapixel camera. Upfront there’s a 6 inch OMEGA AMOLED screen and also inside there’s a 5000 mAh battery, that should give you at least as much time of use as the Note II did. The cool thing is that the Galaxy Note 3 can split the image into 4 3″ 540p windows for multitasking. The platform of choice here is Samsung’s own twist on Android called “Android+”, so a bit more customization than TouchWiz.
The Holo UI is kept, the updates are promised to be more often (fingers crossed) and this new OS is optimized for multitasking and seamlessly integrated with Google services. For those who don’t know Samsung is expected to unveil the big.LITTLE processor next year, an 8 core ARM CPU, with one half being a quad core 1.8 GHz ARM Cortex A15 and the other being a quad core 1.2 GHz Cortex A7. The former is used for the main tasks and the latter for the quieter moments. What do you think of this device/CPU?

Shaik Imaduddin sent us a bunch of pictures showing what he calls the iPad 5, following the recent burst of leaks regarding that tablet. Just like the previous iPad 5 concept from here, this device adopts the iPad Mini design and enlarges it. However, the designer also sent us some hardware specs this time, so let’s check them out.
The changes in design aren’t dramatic compared to the current iPad, aside from the idea of making a bigger iPad Mini. The specs include a 9.7 inch 2048 x 1536 screen, a quad core Apple A7 CPU, an 8 megapixel back camera and a 2 megapixel front one. There’s also 2 GB of RAM on board, 32, 64 and 128 GB of storage and… that’s about it. Frankly, I’m not so sure Apple is already willing to change the Apple A6X CPU for a more potent one, but the extra RAM is always welcome, at least.
The 8 megapixel camera is also unnecessary as far as I see it, while the 128 GB version is also welcome. So, is there a reason to buy what’s basically an iPad 4 with a new CPU and better camera? Not quite, so Apple have to give us a big extra to pick up this device. They may put the big iPad on hold and focus on the iPad Mini Retina for a while… What do you expect from the iPad 5?