HTC Elegant Windows Phone

20/09/2011 00:56 par slaytane

Created by Kevin Zhou, the HTC Elegant Windows Phone concept has a lower side that greatly reminds of devices such as the Nokia N8. Not that it’s a bad thing, since handsets like the N8 and E7 were very much appreciated for their design and less for their software. These images look as if they were taken with a leaked smartphone, but that’s not the case here… Instead we get 3D renders of a nifty HTC concept phones that keeps a simple design of the back case, with the logo on, dual speakers, a 5-8 megapixel camera with LED flash and a front display that could be anywhere between 3. 8 inch and 4.3 inch in diagonal. The typical Windows Phone buttons under the screen are capacitive ones and this certainly looks like solid Windows Phone Mango material. Not so sure about, the color, as some people would love to see this phone in black or maybe a shade of blue. Also, one must notice the grille at the top, next to the front camera, reminding me of the HTC Desire S and Incredible S. Would you buy such a device if it were real?

Aurora

20/09/2011 00:54 par slaytane

Abhi Aravind keeps it old school, creating the HTC Aurora tablet concept, a device that relies on a customized flavor of Honeycomb. All copyright belongs to the designer and don’t forget to check out his deviantArt profile, since he has tons of other cool concepts out there. As far as the HTC Aurora tablet is concerned, we’re dealing with an Android 3.0 Honeycomb slate here, one that runs a custom HTC interface and comes with a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and 720p video capture. There’s also a 10.1 inch capacitive touchscreen on board, with multitouch support, plus WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n and Bluetooth 3.0. 4G is also among the supported connectivity types and the internal memory is 64GB (SSD). Strangely enough, the CPU isn’t a Qualcomm or a Nvidia one, since the designer chose a 2GHz AMD Phenom X7, together with 2GB DDR3 RAM. Last, you should know that this concept does 1920 x 1080 full HD video playback. Would you buy this tablet if it were real?

iphone 5

20/09/2011 00:49 par slaytane

You might be familiar with the name tob!s or Tobi, if you’ve followed our Sony Ericsson concept phones section before. Now, Tobi is back with an iPhone 5 concept that you can see below, pictured in the white version. Quick reminder of the latest rumors: the launch date of the new iPhone is October 7th. Excited? Tobi proposes a more rectangular device, most likely adopting that rumored edge to edge screen and possibly sporting a bigger diagonal. This design seems very iPad-inspired, if you look at the back case especially. Another inspiration from the Apple tablet is drawn with the inclusion of the Smart Cover accessory that attaches to the device. The problem here is: do we really need this accessory? Notice the elongated Home button area that fits in perfectly with the rumors we’ve heard, about that are being some sort of touchpad enabling gesture control that will help you browse in menus. So, what do you think of the designer’s effort?

600 - 700 & 701

26/08/2011 20:25 par slaytane

Dessrt

16/08/2011 16:53 par slaytane

Who said style can’t be achieved with a WP7 device? This is proved by the HTC Dessert concept phone created by AleksandrZ, a stylish smartphone with a candybar design and 1.3GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor.

HTC Dessert comes with 1GB of RAM, 32GB of ROM and a Super AMOLED 4 inch display with incredible resolution: 1280 x 720 pixels. There’s also an 8 megapixel camera with support for HD video capture and the specs list of the concept includes a GPS, 4G connectivity and a 1900 mAh battery. Such a stylish phone needs precious materials for its case, maybe something like marble or croc leather?

The only thing I’m worried about is the back side of the handset, that seems a bit too glossy for its own good…

Flex

16/08/2011 16:52 par slaytane

After yesterday’s flexible Samsung Galaxy phone, today we bring you a flexible HTC created by Kareem Pownall from Hartford. His idea is to implement two screens on a smartphone, including a flexible OLED touchscreen.

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This flexible display scrolls out of the phone, providing a 6 inch widescreen display in total. When rolled in, the device is pretty tiny and reminds me of an older Nokia model that was also very narrow and a bit bulky. I love the upper and lower side of the device, that’s pretty modern and the profile picture of this unit looks a bit like a sci-fi starship.

My worry is the usual one: how fragile this HTC cocnept phone really is… Would you like a flexible HTC smartphone?

Blast

16/08/2011 16:47 par slaytane

Antoine Brieux has sent us one of his news designs, a HTC concept called Blast.  The device is pictured below and brings a new look to the Taiwanese maker’s products. HTC Blast is a butonless smartphone based on the HAND POWER technology, used to turn on the screen without the aid of buttons.

At the front, Blast incorporates a wide 4.7 inch touchscreen and on the inside we find a Qualcomm Snapdragon 1.5GHz dual core CPU with Adreno 220 chipset. There’s also 1GB of ROM on board and 1GB of RAM, plus 32GB of internal storage. The screen is an AMOLED unit with a 1280 x 720 pixel resolution.

At the back of the HTC phone there’s a 12 megapixel camera with full HD video recording and dual LED flash, accompanied by a front 3.2 megapixel camera. Connectivity-wise, the concept comes with WiFi, 3G, 4G ad Bluetooth and the power source of the device is a 1800 mAh battery. The dual core smartphone measures 9mm in thickness and weighs 165 grams, 10 grams less than the Xperia Play.

What’s really interesting is that the phone runs Android 3.0 Honeycomb with HTC Sense.

Stick

16/08/2011 16:38 par slaytane

Remember the HTC Tube tablet concept? Well, Antoine Brieux continues his creation with an interesting accessory for this tablet-smartphone: a secondary Stick Phone with basic functionality. The device is only used to answer a call on the Tube tablet.

Aside from the speaker, microphone, answer and end call keys, this stick phone doesn’t sport other features and it does strictly what a phone is supposed to do: allows the user to chat with other people, while the tablet does the rest, replacing a full fledged PC.

Tube Laptop

16/08/2011 16:35 par slaytane

Antoine Brieux showed us some fantastic designs till now, but now he has outdone himself with the HTC Tube concept, in the finalized version. Well, the HTC Tube Phone was detailed a while ago and so was the HTC Tube Tablet, but now we’re dealing with a laptop that integrates them both.

The result is a cartridge-powered notebook, a multimedia laptop using both the cartridge tablet and a keyboard accessory. There’s also a basic phone integrated for quick answering, a stick handset that we’ll detail in a later article. Well, considering the features of the concept HTC tablet, the laptop must use the 10.4 inch S-AMOLED multitouch display, HDMI port, 128GB of memory (at least) and either Android or Windows Phone 7.

HTC Sense is the UI of choice, with the Tube Phone maybe providing its 3.2, 5 or 12 megapixel camera in different configurations. This is the heaven of all modular devices out there and a brilliant design. Any company would be a fool not to invest in such cool gear. Stay tuned for the following article on the NAK Stick Phone!

New Eden 1

16/08/2011 16:30 par slaytane

Jason Wang is back with a new HTC Concept phone, the New Eden 1, pictured below. We’re talking about a sturdy aluminum case handset, that’s able to face both damage and fingerprints intact. It comes with a 4 inch qHD AMOLED display with a curved glass, that’s a tribute to the Dell Venue phones.

Capacitive buttons are placed below the screen and we have to mention that the HTC New Eden 1 is a dual core TI OMAP 4 1.2GHz smartphone, that uses 1GB of RAM. The result is a gadget that’s thinner than the iPhone 4, at a mere 9.1mm. At the back you’ll find a 16 megapixel Sony camera module, with LED flash, while at the front there’s a classic 1.3 megapixel camera.

You can use up to 64GB of microSD memory on this phone, that comes with 16GB of internal memory and a 1700 mAh battery. Wonder if Sony would ever agree to supply camera sensors to HTC, especially with the rumored partnership they have with Apple.