It’s been a while since the prolific Bob Freking designed something for us, but luckily he’s back, with a very interesting concept: the HTC Nexus One 2013. Those of you who remember Android history, may know that the first Google Nexus phone was the HTC One and now we’ve got another… One.
HTC Nexus One features a 1.8 GHz Snapdragon 600 processor, a Full HD Super LCD 3 screen and an 8 megapixel Ultrapixel camera. It also adopts an all aluminum unibody case and runs Android Key Lime Pie. Bob also informed us that according to Wall Street Journal Google is feeling threatened by Samsung, that has become way too attached to Android and they have a huge market share, so they won’t leave the next Nexus phone to them.
It could go to either Motorola or HTC, but if you ask me Sony is also in the books. As you can see, this device borrows a bit from the HTC One, a bit from the One X and a bit from the LG Nexus 4. I like the rounded form factor, a bit more rounded than the HTC One and I imagine that the back has a soft touch material. Is a Nexus 2013 phone made by HTC possible?
[Thanks Bob Freking]

David Quijada aka ibolzurikato from Deviantart created a new Sony Xperia concept phone, one that uses interesting lighting around the edges and looks very slim, also slightly curved. There’s a certain sci-fi look to this model, that we’ll analyze in the following lines.
First of all we’re dealing with an Xperia, so it’s an Android concept phone, as proved by the icons on the screen and by the 3 capacitive buttons below the display. There’s a beautiful side lighting mechanism on the device and a gentle curve at the back. I also seem to have a spotted the camera and flash integration in the back area, both very discrete.
The device is elongated and curved, meaning it may sit well in the user’s hand, but I’m not sure it won’t wobble on a flat surface. I can imagine that the Sony Xperia Sai is made of metal or some new and resilient plastic material, while the front is all glass and the button part certainly looks like glass being transparent and all. What do you make of this Xperia render?
[via Deviantart]

Since even Apple is rumored to be preparing an iWatch and Samsung is apparently up to something like that as well, Nokia may also jump on the bandwagon and come up with a Lumia Watch. Till then we have a concept of such a watch from Mohammad Mahdi Azimi.
The device minimizes the design of the typical Lumia and it’s the basic square wrist accessory with touchscreen included. The Nokia Lumia Watch packs a pressure indicator, compass, altimeter, GPS, calorie meter, 4G LTE and a waterproof case. There’s also the ability to sync the device with Lumia series handsets.  From what I see this watch runs some version of Windows Phone, too.
The watch seems to have a front camera and it comes in the bright colors of the Lumia series. It’s not very clear what the belt of the concept watch looks like, but I suppose that it’s either metal or leather, or maybe a human-friendly plastic that doesn’t harm you. It sounds like a good idea and I seem to have spotted a microSD card slot on it or maybe a SIM card slot?

People are really excited about Motorola’s upcoming Google XPhone, so they started to imagine how it would look like. Among them there’s the designer Jason Chen who not only created a concept video of the device, but also a bunch of renders for the Google XPhone.
We’re dealing with the upcoming superphone from Google and Motorola, a sort of Nexus device without the Nexus branding, from what we’ve heard. The handset comes with a 7.6 mm thick chassis, still thicker than the Motorola Droid RAZR and it weighs 125 grams. It features a 4.5 inch Super AMOLED display with a 1280 x 720 pixel resolution and a quad core 1.5 GHz Krait CPU, plus a 13 megapixel PureView camera with Full HD video.
The specs of this model are pretty unrealistic if you ask me, since Nokia would never lend Moto their camera tech and also the device is kind of the same with the Nexus 4, as far as specs go. Many people disliked the back area of the Nexus 4, so at least that’s changed, being replaced by something that looks like metal. What do you think?

This week HTC unveiled the HTC One smartphone, previously known as the M7, an Android Jelly Bean handset with high end features and a great design. Now Michael Retovona proposes a new HTC design, the M8 device, pictured below and packing Windows Phone 8.
The designer claims that he likes the Lumia and the iPhone 5 look, so he admits that the HTC One is a bit inspired by those. So, he went out and created the equivalent of the HTC One in the Windows Phone universe: HTC M8. Michael worked one hour and a half on this render in Photoshop alone and using vectors.
There are some changes from the HTC One, like the fact that we have speakers at the lower back, not only at the front top and bottom. Also, below the screen there are Windows Phone buttons and the front camera has been moved from the side to the center. There are 3 capacitive buttons instead of 3 and other than that the handset may keep its 4.7 inch Full HD screen and maybe even the 4 MP Ultrapixel camera. Fancy this phone?
[Thanks to Michael Retovona]