Every month out of the past 6 held a brand new Nexus 5 concept for us and June is no exception. This time we get a fresh render of the next gen Nexus smartphone, that’s codenamed Megalodon and is created by Andreas Lossau.
This Nexus 5 concept features a custom Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 SoC, MSM8994G (Google Edition), a 4 core Krait 400 clocked between 48 MHz and 2352 MHz. There’s support for 4K UHD decoding and encoding and the GPU is the Adreno 425G. Inside the handset we find 2 GB of LPDDR3 RAM, an ultra low powered DSP core and a Qualcomm modem.
Upfront we have a 5.3 inch Sharp IGZO display with Full HD resolution and low power usage, while out at the back the designer placed a 13 megapixel camera with Pelican Imaging technology, 4K UHD video recording and 1080p capture at 120 FPS. We’ve got 3 dual membrane microphones, enhanced noise cancellation, stereo sound recording, HDR video recording and instant preview. Nexus 5 also uses a 2.1 MP wide angle front camera, a removable 6900 mAh Li-Ion battery with a new technology involving nanowire anodes instead of silicon ones.
The case is all aluminum unibody, with the antennas behind the polycarbonate stripes. Would you like this to be the next Nexus? I like the back of the phone very much, since it’s so minimalistic.
[via Deviantart]

It’s nice to look at concepts from a few years ago and see what could have been. For example, the Nokia XpresShot XS5 here could have been a kickass Symbian device or maybe an Android one. Created by Deviantart member clintgt, the device looks like a very solid media smartphones.
Nokia XpresShot XS5 comes with a 64 GB SSD, up to 2 GB of application memory, Bluetooth 3.0 with 24 Mbps transfer and a brand new interface. The OS on board is also totally new and it’s called Zilo, being a new project of the folks behind Symbian. This Nokia concept phone design comes with an 18.1 megapixel camera with Full HD video recording and other features include a 4 inch OLED display with 720p resolution and widescreen format.
The handset uses a CMOS sensor, Carl Zeiss Tessar lens, a Xenon and LED flash and 6x digital zoom. plus a full screen viewfinder. Nokia XpresShot XS5, as imagined by the Deviantart designer relies on a TI OMAP 3430 ARM Cortex A8 1.5 GHz processor, supports quad band connectivity and has a gyromagnetic meter for a new level of gaming, that allows you to move the finger through the air to control the game. Would this work nowadays?
[Via Deviantart]

Once every two weeks or so, Ubuntu is a topic of discussion in the world of smartphones. Everyone wants an Ubuntu superphone, not just customized software running on existing hardware. Well, Rahul Sharma imagined such a device and created the Ubuntu Eon Superphone by Canonical.
The tagline for the product is “the first canonical surprise”, since the phone is developed by Canonical itself, in this theory. The handset you see here is made from a blend of polycarbonate (front), while the back is all chrome. The back side has a beautiful design and has a specifically engraved Ubuntu logo. Specs of this Ubuntu smartphone include the Ubuntu Touch OS, LTE, a 2.3 GHz Snapdragon 800 processor and 2 GB of LPDDR3 RAM.
There’s also a 5 inch Full HD display on board with oleophobic coating and Gorilla Glass 3. AT the back we’ve got a 13 megapixel camera with optical stabilization developed by Nikkon lenses. The front camera is a 3.2 MP unit with 720p capability and we’ve also got SRS premium Surround sound and the usual sensors. Finally, we’ve also got a HDMI port for extending the Ubuntu experience onto the desktop.
The Ubuntu phone you see here measures just 6.7 mm in waistline, has augmented reality, gesture recognition, 64 GB of internal storage and a 3000 mAh battery. I really enjoy this design. Do you?
[Thanks Rahul]