Lumia 601

15/12/2011 15:31 par slaytane

If there’s one thing that we’re crazy about, aside from concepts then that’s renders. Luckily I stumbled upon a fresh Nokia design, that supposedly belongs to the Lumia 601 handset. Here’s what I’m talking about:

Not so long ago Nokia published a developer-oriented video featuring a large display Windows Phone device, that was supposed to be the Nokia 900 Ace leaked handset. Since then this model has been removed, but in the meantime the image above appeared and people started talking about the Nokia Lumia 601 unit as the identity of this leak. It appears that the picture has a reliable source inside Nokia, so the phone’s name is a pretty sure thing.

If we’re to judge by the name, this model belongs to the lower end of the Nokia portofolio, so there aren’t many reasons to get excited here. This is Windows Phone after all, plus a design that doesn’t quite surprise or impress me. We have no specs to go with the image, but we spotted what looks like an 8 megapixel camera at the back of the smartphone. People who are familiar with design and saw this image say that it’s a clear case of Photoshop action. What do you think?

Nokia GEM Concept

15/12/2011 15:30 par slaytane

Nokia has been on a roll lately, showing us no less than 3 concepts, some of them showcased at Nokia World 2011. This is the third one actually, Nokia GEM, a device that prides itself with being a handset that was turned into an entire touchscreen. There’s also an interesting comic-book like video in the source link below, in case you want extra info.

Nokia GEM was launched to celebrate 25 years of existence of the Nokia Research Centre and this device is all about the touchscreen it incorporates on its front, back and sides. The back is also interactive, so you can pinch to zoom from the rear, without cluttering the front screen. This function also comes in handy when using maps and probably games too, as proved by the Sony PS Vita.

Senior Design Manager Jarkko Saunamäki is the one who lead the team that created GEM and recently claimed that once you launch an app, for example the camera application, the entire phone will begin to look like a camera. How? Well, there’s an entire image wrapped around the phone, since it’s a whole touchscreen after all. The coolest thing about this device is that it also allows people to carry advertising on the back of the handset when making calls, so they would get a discount on bills. How cool is that? 3D images viewed from all angles are also supported!

Nokia HumanForm

15/12/2011 15:27 par slaytane

We’ve been hearing a lot about Nokia flexible phones lately, with a prototype being even demoed at Nokia World 2011. This may be no Nokia Morph, but it’s surely interesting enough to make us think about the future. And now there’s a new project called the HumanForm, that looks like the pics you see below.

Created by Nokia Design and Nokia Research Center, HumanForm is all about flexibility and bendable phones. The result is a touchscreen device that looks like a thermometer or a feminine accessory, that seems to only fit a vertical row of icons on its small display. The device allows physical manipulation and nanotechnology allows data to float on the screen like liquid.

Thus a flow of social networking info is created and you must know that the entire case of the HumanForm device is a touchscreen, while flexing the handset is also a means of control. Bend to zoom is supported for example, as shown in the video in our source link. A small phone doesn’t necessarily mean small features, keep that in mind… Is this Nokia futuristic design the real future?

[via Yanko Design]

Nokia Windows 8 Tablet

01/11/2011 16:32 par slaytane

Nokia World 2011 brought us the first Windows Phone 7.5 Mango devices from Nokia and now maybe it’s time to start looking for the first Windows 8 tablet made by the Finns. This could be a slate that looks like the device pictured below, a mere render of a tablet inspired by the Nokia N9.

Nokia must be careful here not to make the same mistake it did when trying to enter the market of netbooks. The Nokia Booklet 3G failed miserably because of the price and I really can’t see a solid reason for its purchase. Since Nokia is all about Microsoft these days, why wouldn’t they also join hands in the tablet field?

I know that MS has been trying long and hard to come up with an iPad rival… Thus, now that the Steve Jobs official biography revealed that the iPad was in fact an idea started to tease Microsoft, the Redmond giant has all the reasons to retaliate and the hardware coming from Nokia to be able to do so. Do you give a Nokia Win 8 tablet any chance of survival?

Nokia Flexible Kinetic Device Shown at Nokia World 2011

01/11/2011 16:30 par slaytane

Remember the Nokia Morph flexible concept from 3 years ago? Well, it’s only now that Nokia has started moving to that direction, creating a flexible display device or two, showcased during this week’s Nokia World 2011 event in London. The result can be seen below:

This is the prototype Nokia Kinetic Device, that supports display flexing on the vertical and horizontal axis. You can bend and twist the screen to control the interface, for example bending the display to yourself in order to select stuff or zoom in on pictures. If you’re listening to music you can use the tactile area to navigate, stop or play a song.

There’s still a long way to go till mass production, but at least there’s a prototype to build upon. The curios thing here is that Nokia was shy of detailing the screen technology, so this could mean it’s not the flexible AMOLED we’ve seen on Samsung and Sony’s side for a while now. The viewing angles are also pretty good when it comes to the Nokia flexible concept phone.

Curved Screen Nokia Symbian Belle Unit Looks Very Hot

01/11/2011 16:27 par slaytane

Before you’re intrigued as to why I’m posting this, let me make this clear: this device is a concept used by Nokia in a video to showcase the NFC abilities of its handsets. Thus, don’t expect the best of design here, just a simplistic unit with a very rounded form factor.

This is a Symbian Belle Nokia model with a curved screen that was spotted in a video running on a Nokia 700, that was demoed recently. This seems to continue the trend started with the Nokia N9, just like the N8 opened the road for devices to follow it. One must also notice that the call/end/menu keys are capacitive, which is certainly new to the world of Symbian.

There’s a speculation that this is actually a qHD display handset, the N8-01, if there is such a thing out there. Also in this leak there’s an interesting service called Nokia AirCloud, making us think of a future solution for working in the cloud entirely, maybe some backup, maybe some Google Docks style action?

porsche

01/11/2011 16:18 par slaytane

Design original c’est sur, mais prix exceptionnel de 2 000$ environ pour ce modčle Blackbery designé par Porsche. Sous le capot c’est assez banal, en tous cas pas en avance sur la concurrence : CPU cadencé ŕ 1.2 Ghz, mémoire de 8Go. Reste la construction alliant cuir et Acier (męme au niveau des touches), un produit de luxe comme un autre en somme, plus réussi que les modčles Vertu je trouve.

Lumia 710 & 800

29/10/2011 01:59 par slaytane

Les premiers smartphones Nokia sous Windows Phone sont officialisés à l'occasion du Nokia World avec les Nokia Lumia 800 et Nokia Lumia 710.

200.201.300.303

29/10/2011 01:52 par slaytane

EVO Design 4G

20/10/2011 16:50 par slaytane

HTC Kingdom / HTC Evo Design 4G / HTC Acquire : photo + caractéristiques techniques !

La RUU (Rom Utility Update) complète du HTC Kingdom vient de fuiter et le fichier build.prop nous révèle ainsi ses caractéristiques techniques. 

•  la version d'Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread
• un écran qHD de 4" (960*540p)
• un processeur simple coeur de 1.2GHz Snapdragon S2 MSM7x30 accompagné de l'Adreno 205 GPU
• 768MB de RAM
• un capteur photo vidéo de 5MP et une caméra frontale de 1.3MP