The demands will be high for the Samsung Galaxy S5, especially since the Galaxy S III marked the jump from 480 x 800 to HD and the S4 to 1920 x 1080. It’s possible that next year we’ll get even more pixels on the 5 inch display, which I think will be the diagonal yet again.
Samsung Galaxy S5, in this version of render has been created by Suman Chatterjee, who did a fine job with this concept. The only thing I don’t like is how cheap the back side feels. It feels like some sort of bigger Galaxy Ace, while the front actually makes sense. I’ve seen at least half a dozen of Galaxy S4 concepts with edge to edge screens and now here’s yet another one.
The camera and the entire back side look totally low end, if you ask me and if you ask me what’s a “high end look”, just have a glance at the Huawei Edge and the Lenovo K900 handsets (just Google them) and check out those beautiful metallic backs with embedded cameras. Just gorgeous! Imagine that back and this front… total madness!
Bonus! Picture of Huawei Edge (source):
[Thanks Suman Chatterjee]

If you’ve been following our website over the past couple of years, you must’ve noticed that we had a couple of Samsung Galaxy concepts and also some Galaxy Note concepts. Well, the Galaxy S4 for example had crazy designs, while the Galaxy Note II had realistic ones. That’s why I also expect the Galaxy Note 3 to get some realistic mockups, like the one below. It was sent to us by uva7 dance and it’s a slab of plastic, with metallic edges, a wider format than the Galaxy S4 and a small pen slot at the back bottom. It’s not too far from the Galaxy S4 and it only increases in width. The screen has as small of a bezel as possible and if you look at this model from the profile, it has a certain feeling of iPhone, if you ask me. But what doesn’t nowadays, right?
We also get a bunch of specs for this Samsung Galaxy Note 3 concept, that include a 5.9 inch Super AMOLED Full HD display, an 8 core processor (4 core 2 GHz Cortex A15 + 4 core 1.4 GHz Cortex A7), 3 GB of RAM, up to 128 GB of ROM and microSDXC card slot. Android 5.0 is the OS of choice and at the back we’ve got a 16 megapixel camera, although I suppose the real device will have a 13 MP one. The good news is that the camera does 60 FPS 1080p video capture.
Finally, the Note 3  measures 7.9 mm in thickness and has a Li-Ion 3600 mAh battery. Realistic… or not?
[via uva7 dance]

If you follow the recent Apple patents, you’ll run into a very interesting one, that shows a curved iPhone of sorts. Now that patent has been turned into the render you can see below. It was said to actually be a flexible iPhone display, so here it is:
Nickolay Lamm is the creator of this concept, a mockup of an iPhone with a curved display. Apple’s recent patent refers to a wraparound AMOLED display, that’s certainly futuristic, but it may one day be adopted. As you can see, the handset loses both the Home button and volume buttons and just like Apple said in the patent, the device provides “illusion of depth perception that imitates a 3D experience”.
Frankly speaking, I think this is more of an iPhone 7 material or even further, since even Samsung with its colossal power of innovation stays away from such formats for now. I have to say that this model doesn’t seem flexible and that it’s kind of bulky compared to the patent below.
[via iphonerumors]

If you’re tired of the Nexus 5 concepts we’ve shown you over the past month, let’s take it up a notch and reveal a Nexus 6. This device is also dubbed the X Phone and it’s a new hero device supposedly made by Google and Motorola. Looking at its Android version, it sure feels like a model that would be revealed at Google I/O 2014.
Nexus 6 runs Android 6.0 Milkshake, so I suppose after Key Lime Pie we’ll have the “L” release this fall and then Milkshake. This Motorola Google Phone also supports spatial gestures recognition and adopts an edgy back side with the X Envelope signature, that makes it stand out. The designer of the Nexus 6, Introoo claims that the smartphone is made of semi flexible materials and composite and the whole X thing defines a new design direction, just like Nokia and its Fabula direction.
The Google Motorola X Phone pictured here features HDMI out, a 4.6 inch flexible OLED display and it supports 3D printed cases that can be applied on top of it. You can also add 3D printed parts to the phone and make your own unique chassis. This Nexus handset measures 8.5 mm in thickness, supports a 1280 x 768 pixel resolution, has a 10 megapixel camera, GPS, NFC, wireless charging, a 2 MP front camera and it uses the usual barometer, compass and gyroscope.
Are you ready for Android 6.0 or still curious about Android 5.0?

Martin Hajek is one of the designers who stuns us with visually detailed concept phones, like the BlackBerry one or the iPad Mini one. Today we’re showing you his vision of the iPhone 6, inspired by Steve Hemmerstoffer from Nowhereelse.fr.
The idea here is to design an iPhone of 2014, one with a 5 inch display and one that ditches the physical Home button. And then came the magical idea of implementing a touchpad below the display, like the MacBook trackpad, covered with a glass plate. That mechanism now replaces the Home button with the ability to click on said touchpad. The design seems inspired by the iPad Mini and the current iPod Touch, if you ask me.
iPhone 6 relies on an unibody aluminum anodized black or gray case and it comes with a Retina Display that’s borderless and… clickable in its lower area. I can also feel a bit of the iPhone 3G/3GS generation with the slightly curved shape of the device in the upper side and at the back. I also imagine that the resolution is huge here and we a special Apple A7X or Apple A8 CPU inside.