Play
02/04/2012 00:25 par slaytane
Play
02/04/2012 00:25 par slaytane
Created by Kirill Krymov, working with some designer students in USA and Motorola designers in Korea, the following concept shows us a Motorola phone without keys and relying on touch input and gestures. The Moto Play is basically a full touch rectangle, with two movable parts at the back, that look as if joysticks were set apart from the handset.
Motorola Play Concept is All Touch, No Buttons (Video)
These moving parts uncover a camera and other features of the Motorola Play include the ability to charge via wireless, just by placing the phone on a charging base. The device uses a 7 megapixel camera that takes quick snaps and this photo sensor is hidden behind two sliding parts, that can be used as joysticks in the gaming experience and as controls for the camera. The left joystick is used for zooming, while the right one is used for taking pictures (shutter button).
This looks like a very interesting Motorola concept phone, one that would fit youngsters, teens and people with an active lifestyle. I’m not sure if the slider parts make it more fragile or not and if they won’t wear out during a long period of use…
Motorola Play Concept is All Touch, No Buttons (Video)
Motorola Play Concept is All Touch, No Buttons (Video)
[via Coroflot]
Maxi
02/04/2012 00:20 par slaytane
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Maxi
02/04/2012 00:20 par slaytane
Designer Androgama recently sent us one of his new concept Sony Xperia devices, the Maxi. The Xperia Maxi is a rugged, resilient handset that takes its inspiration from the Xperia Active, as shown by the design, choice of colors and features. However, this time we’re dealing with a more evolved unit.
Xperia Maxi Android 2.3 Phone, a Design Inspired by Xperia Active
Maxi comes with a 1.2GHz processor, a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, LED flash and HD video recording, plus geotagging, face and smile detection, red eye reduction and a 3 inch LCD display with Bravia Mobile Engine technology. Exmor R tech is also used here and Maxi is scratch resistant, water resistant and has wet finger tracking. There’s also a Maxi II planned by Androgama, a concept that aimes at giving the best smartphone performance in the mid end range.
It’s also a handset for the young people, just like the Xperia Active and the first Maxi. Basically, this phone is an SE Xperia Active model with an upgraded CPU and some design tweaks, if you ask me…
Xperia Maxi Android 2.3 Phone, a Design Inspired by Xperia Active
Xperia Maxi Android 2.3 Phone, a Design Inspired by Xperia Active
Xperia Maxi Android 2.3 Phone, a Design Inspired by Xperia Active
ARC HD
02/04/2012 00:18 par slaytane
Welcome to the Samsung Waview, an intriguing concept created by Li Wei and having at its center flexible LED screen technology. What’s really nice about this oversized smartphone or smaller tablet is that it can also be used as a lampshade when it doesn’t serve as a communication device.
Curved Tablet Design is Actually a Flexible Smartphone
The handset becomes not only a lampshade through its placement in a special cradle, but it also charges up through the same mechanism. Flexible LED phones are mere prototypes and concepts now, but the likes of Sony and Samsung are working hard to make them real. It will be cool to have a phone or tablet with a solid base area and a flexible display that you can expand to either handset size or slate size.
Samsung Waview is a pretty nice start for a future prototype, but its glass looks a bit too thick to be viable. A quick idea for specs: dual core 2GHz processor, 2GB RAM, 720p resolution, 8MP camera and maybe some 3D graphics thrown in just for fun. Would you dig such a device?
Curved Tablet Design is Actually a Flexible Smartphone
Curved Tablet Design is Actually a Flexible Smartphone
[via Yanko Design]
Waview
02/04/2012 00:14 par slaytane
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Waview
02/04/2012 00:14 par slaytane
Welcome to the Samsung Waview, an intriguing concept created by Li Wei and having at its center flexible LED screen technology. What’s really nice about this oversized smartphone or smaller tablet is that it can also be used as a lampshade when it doesn’t serve as a communication device.
Curved Tablet Design is Actually a Flexible Smartphone
The handset becomes not only a lampshade through its placement in a special cradle, but it also charges up through the same mechanism. Flexible LED phones are mere prototypes and concepts now, but the likes of Sony and Samsung are working hard to make them real. It will be cool to have a phone or tablet with a solid base area and a flexible display that you can expand to either handset size or slate size.
Samsung Waview is a pretty nice start for a future prototype, but its glass looks a bit too thick to be viable. A quick idea for specs: dual core 2GHz processor, 2GB RAM, 720p resolution, 8MP camera and maybe some 3D graphics thrown in just for fun. Would you dig such a device?
Curved Tablet Design is Actually a Flexible Smartphone
Curved Tablet Design is Actually a Flexible Smartphone
[via Yanko Design]
Galaxy Tab
02/04/2012 00:13 par slaytane
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Galaxy Tab
02/04/2012 00:13 par slaytane
We deal with mockups, renders and prototypes here at Concept Phones, not only designs, so after showing you the Galaxy Tab 11.6 idea from a couple of days ago, now we have a new mockup from the German site TabTech.de. They report that Samsung will introduce this 11.6 inch tablet at MWC 2012 and they give us this mockup for comparison sake, with the Galaxy Tab 10.1.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 11.6 Mockup Comes From Germany
Rumors say we’re dealing with a dual core 2GHz Exynos 5250 tablet, with a 11.6 inch display that supports a 2560 x 1600 pixel resolution and runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The S Pen stylus is also expected to be supported and bundled here and I’m guessing that we’re going to get a 5 or 8 megapixel camera, 16/32GB of internal memory, LTE, NFC, WiFi, GPS, DLNA and as few ports as possible, keeping with the Samsung tradition of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9.
What I’m worried about is how portable this device will be, considering its diagonal size. If it’s anywhere below 650 grams, it will be OK and it’s less than 9mm thick we’re saved… and I trust Samsung to deliver that. On the previous Samsung Galaxy Tab 11.6 concept I’ve shown you some comments said that they’d rather have a big, not so portable device, but all the performance they need. Do you agree?
[via TabTech]
802
02/04/2012 00:07 par slaytane
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802
02/04/2012 00:07 par slaytane
Well, there’s one way to make a concept original and that is create a stunning hardware design and slap on it an antique OS. I’m talking about the Nokia 802 concept, a beautiful transparent phone, but one that runs Symbian Belle if I’m not mistaking. This is the creation of Thair Joudi. At least it could have had MeeGo…
Nokia 802 Concept is Transparent, Features... Symbian
Well, getting over this whining, some people actually love Symbian and consider it a viable OS. As far as the device goes, it’s a slab of transparent material that reminds me of the Nokia futuristic phone spotted in the movie Real Steel. There are tons of ways you can use a transparent display phone, one of them being a huge viewfinder for your camera, plus tons of augmented reality applications, interaction with NFC tags and live photo tagging/geotagging and identification of Facebook contacts.
If I were to phantasize I’d say that about 6 phones like this, united through a revolutionary technology could create a tablet or something close to it. Sadly there are bezels standing in the way of that project. Anyway, this render is great and I hope it gets a lot of appreciation.
Nokia 12 Inch Tablet Runs Windows 8, Uses AMOLED Display
02/04/2012 00:05 par slaytane
Mohamed Magdy, the guy who created the Nokia Snow handset also created a tablet with a 12 inch display, that you can see below. We’re dealing with a Windows 8 device here, that uses a 12 inch 1920 x 1080 resolution and it’s based on AMOLED technology. There’s also an 8 megapixel front camera for HD video calls.
Nokia 12 Inch Tablet Runs Windows 8, Uses AMOLED Display
At the back there’s a 12 megapixel Carl Zeiss optics camera with autofocus and dual LED flash and you must know that this Nokia concept tablet comes with 4 surround sound speakers and a kickstand for better movie viewing on any surface. There’s also a HDMI port on board and an USB 3.0 port bundled here. The slate has rounded edges, a metallic area around the bezel, as shown in these images and might make a pretty good product some day. The thing is that Nokia will have to make this product light, or else it will become too bulky or heavy, especially with that 12 inch screen.
I expect to see a real Nokia Tablet sometime this summer, maybe during Nokia Connection 2012, who knows? The CPU is a mystery here, so it could be a Qualcomm one or maybe an Intel one… What do you think?
Nokia 12 Inch Tablet Runs Windows 8, Uses AMOLED Display
Nokia 12 Inch Tablet Runs Windows 8, Uses AMOLED Display
Nokia 12 Inch Tablet Runs Windows 8, Uses AMOLED Display
Snow
02/04/2012 00:03 par slaytane
Mohamed Magdy is the same guy who designed the Nokia C8 handset that I’m sure you’ve seen. Today I’ve come across another design of his, the Nokia Snow, that’s detailed in the pictures and video below. This is a 4 inch smartphone with a 1000 x 600 pixel resolution and a beautiful glass body with chrome edges. You can find some other concepts made by Mohamed right here.
Nokia Snow 4 Inch Phone Features 14MP Camera, Windows Phone 7
The screen is a Super AMOLED Plus touchscreen and other specs of the Nokia Snow model include a front 2 MP camera, a 14.1 megapixel camera at the back, with Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus and LED flash. There’s also a SIM card slot on board, a microSD card slot, a microUSB 3.0 port, micro HDMI and a noise cancelation microphone. The device is supposed to run Windows Phone 7 and it adopts a flat design for its case. I like those Windows buttons very much, since they’re integrated into the device discretely.
The back of the phone and its rounded edges, plus that touch of chrome make it a pretty elegant device, certainly fancier than those plastic units Lumia 710 and Lumia 610. Is this better than the Nokia Lumia 800? Can’t really say, as they’re different designs, both pretty good. What’s Nokia going to come up with once they’ve used up the N9 form factor? We’ll have to wait and see…
Nokia Snow 4 Inch Phone Features 14MP Camera, Windows Phone 7
Nokia Snow 4 Inch Phone Features 14MP Camera, Windows Phone 7
Lumia Expresso Windows 8 Concept Tablet Features 10.1 Inch
02/04/2012 00:01 par slaytane
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Lumia Expresso Windows 8 Concept Tablet Features 10.1 Inch
02/04/2012 00:01 par slaytane
The folks of Mynokiablog are back with a new Windows 8 Nokia tablet concept, that looks very much like the Nokia Tab we saw a while ago. This model is called the Nokia Lumia Expresso, so it’s guess it’s related to that “coffee tablet” they’ve shown us. This Windows 8 device features a 10.1 inch ClearBlack AMOLED display with a 1280 x 800 pixel resolution.
Nokia Lumia Expresso Windows 8 Concept Tablet Features 10.1 Inch Display, 1.2GHz Quad Core CPU
There’s also a 1.2GHz quad core processor on board, 2GB of RAM, 32/64/128GB storage, a 12 megapixel camera and a 2MP front facing camera. WiFi, 3G, quad speakers and NFC are also on board and the Nokia Lumia Expresso is capable of wireless charging among others. Its most surprising feature is that it incorporates a projector, able to project a whole keyboard in front of it. The design is very N9-like and also looks a bit like the exterior part of the display on the Booklet 3G.
I can’t understand why designer Tris Clark decided to include the Windows, Back and Search buttons on the lower part of the display, since those can be display in the Charm area in Windows 8. There’s also a Play 360 speaker in the mix, paired to the Nokia concept tablet via NFC. Those quad speakers also sound like a good idea, so a great multimedia experience is ensured.
Nokia Lumia Expresso Windows 8 Concept Tablet Features 10.1 Inch Display, 1.2GHz Quad Core CPU
Nokia Lumia Expresso Windows 8 Concept Tablet Features 10.1 Inch Display, 1.2GHz Quad Core CPU
Lumia 805
01/04/2012 23:58 par slaytane
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Lumia 805
01/04/2012 23:58 par slaytane
Well doesn’t Nokia like to reuse designs? They’ve adopted the same N9 polycarbonate shell for the Lumia 800 and 900 and now it’s rumored that they’ll keep at it, for a Symbian model with a great camera. Apparently, they’re also fond of the Nokia X7 design, that might be reused to create the Nokia Lumia 805, as shown in the render below.
Nokia Lumia 805 Render Looks Very Much like the Nokia X7
This images surfaced on Baidu, a Chinese web service and search engine. Nokia Lumia 805 is supposed to feature a 3.9 inch ClearBlack WVGA display, 16GB of internal memory, a 1450 mAh battery and a 12 megapixel camera wit Carl Zeiss Optics and dual LED flash. The X7 had a 4 inch display, 8MP camera and 1200 mAh battery, so the upgrade is welcome. Nokia shouldn’t be ashamed of reusing the design, as the X7 was the coolest Symbian phone I played with, in terms of design.
What I didn’t like about it is that not all 4 corners hid speakers, as it was rumored before its launch, so maybe this time we’ll get an uber music phone with 4 corner speakers. What do you say? Is this just a mere render or a real new Nokia Windows Phone unit ?
Nokia Lumia 805 Render Looks Very Much like the Nokia X7