12 Cool Apple iPhone Concepts

Collection of the most innovative Apple iPhone concepts designed by talented artists from around the world.

Transparent iPhone Concept

iPhone designed by Robert Davis is made out of transparent parts. [link]

iPhone Pro Concept

Apple iPhone with two sliding panels designed by ADR Studio. [link]

Projector iPhone Concept

Next Generation iPhone designed by Samuel Lee Kwon will project the display on your hand. 

iPhone 5G Concept

Colorful Apple iPhone designed by Antoine Brieux from NAK Studio. [link]

iPhone nano Concept

Cool mockup of the smaller and cheaper version of the iPhone 4. [link]

iPhone 5 Concept

Modern iPhone concept designed by Antoine Brieux from NAK. [link]

Elegant iPhone Concept

Beautiful and stylish Apple iPhone concept designed by item. [link]

4mm iPhone 5 Concept

Cool iPhone concept designed by Alternative Industries is just 4mm thick.

Hologram iPhone Concept

Futuristic Apple iPhone 5 concept features a hologram projector. [link]

Unibody iPhone Concept

Photoshop rendering by Corey Daniels shows an iPhone made from a single piece of aluminum. 

iPhone 5

iPad 2 and iPhone 4 inspired concept by Michal Bonikowski. [link]

Thin iPhone Concept

Photoshop rendering of a thin Apple iPhone 5 made by handyflash. 

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10 Futuristic Cell Phone Concepts

Collection of the most creative and interesting cell phone concepts designed by talented people from all over the globe.

Weather Cell Phone Concept

Beautiful cell phone concept design by Seunghan Song accurately detects and illustrates present weather conditions. 

Mobile Script Cell Phone Concept

Designed by Aleksander Mukomelov, this cell phone comes with a large touchscreen, that is located inside the phone in the collapsed state. 

Projector Cell Phone Concept

Cool extra slim concept cell phone equipped with rotating screen with built-in projector; an ideal tool for field presentations.

Alarm Clock Cell Phone Concept

Sony Ericsson WakeUpPhone looks and functions like an alarm clock that will wake you up in the morning. 

Pen Cell Phone Concept

Target-shaped areas on top and bottom are earpiece and receiver. [link]

Edge Cell Phone Concept

Designed by Chris Owens, the transparent touchscreen keypad is edge lit by internal LED’s. [link]

Grass Cell Phones

Green mobile phones designed to last only for the length of its functional life cycle, they fall apart for easy recycling after two years are up. [link]

Mechanical Cell Phone Concept

Cell phone designed by Mikhail Stawsky will charge its battery when you spin it around your finger. [link]

Flexible Cell Phone Concept

Beautiful wrist concept cell phone designed by Shirley A. Roberts. [link]

Ear Cell Phone Concept

Kambala is a cool mobile phone that transforms into an earpiece. [link]

Transparent Mobile Phone - XRAY-X5

Transparent Mobile Phone - XRAY-X5 by PhoneDestock

BMW GINA Concept

BMW GINA Concept by Spi0n

Nokia Morph Mobile Phone Concept-Nanotechnology

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Nokia Lumia Portable Video Projector is Actually a Good Idea

Edgar Mkrtchyan usually sends us 3D renders of new Nokia phones, but now he imagined a very interesting accessory: a Nokia Lumia projector. The sketch is shown in much detail below and the designer will also come up with a 3D render later on. This is a portable video projector, one for Lumia handsets, a segment of accessories that never really took off till now.

The projector shows everything you see on the handset’s screen on a big wall, which can be a good thing for conferences for example. Imagine integrating the Microsoft Office experience with this and sharing PowerPoint presentations synced from your Windows RT tablet to your Lumia for example. How cool is that? Also, watching a movie on the “big screen” becomes easier, even if you’re stranded in the mountains. Multimedia content is transmitted via NFC and the device fits in as if it were a “bed”.

There’s also a big speaker on the side of the projector and the device apparently uses Carl Zeiss technology. The portable video projector has a 3.5 mm jack, 2 ventilation grids, 2 loudspeakers, a micro USB port for charging and a 3000 mAh battery. The 3.5 mm audio jack is used to settle the phone into the cradle. The cool thing is that you can also power the phone with the projector thanks to induction charging. With the 3000 mAh battery you can watch over 8 hours of video. Price this product anywhere around $100 and you’ve got a hit!

Also, the design looks great and the device is highly portable. Notice the slope it has when placed on the table and directed upwards, very good idea!

amazing concept phone:Kambala

The main idea of the project is to combine a mobile phone and wireless headphones. Material – a multilayered polymer, in which all electronic components are located inside in the form of layers. If you squeeze the phone, then in his mid appears earpiece, which is inserted into the ear. Thus the mobile phone turns into a headset. The inner surface of the phone is a continuous flexible screen, as well as a layer of sensors, which transmit the image from inside the phone on the outside – there is a layer of paint that can take any color – just like a fish flounder. When you wear this headset is automatically masked in your head and almost disappears. Instead of the joystick – sensitive strip on the edge of petal headphones.

HTC Windows Phone 8J Concept is a Quad Core Handset With 5 Inch 1080p Screen

Designer Shaik Imaduddin has created a few interesting concepts, like theXbox 720 tablet and now he’s back with another gizmo related to Microsoft: the HTC Windows Phone 8J concept. I guess we can call this model HTC 8J, just like we called the newcomers with WP8 from HTC 8X and 8S. Here’s the beautiful 8J:

This model increases the diagonal size to 5 inches and the resolution to 1080p. HTC Windows Phone 8J features a quad core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, just like the modern Android handsets, plus 2 GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage. It also has a 16 megapixel camera at the back and a 3.2 megapixel front shooter. Both are capable of 1080p capture, apparently. Shaik Imaduddin did a fine job with the design and this model keeps that distinctive bar at the bottom just like the HTC 8S, with the Search, Start and Back buttons.

Since the diagonal is 5 inches here, the temptation is great to think about a stylus, but we can only speculate on that. A powerhouse like this would rather run Windows Phone 8.5 or maybe a future version of the Microsoft mobile platform, since I’m not so sure that the current one supports Full HD resolutions. A beautiful design, that we really find interesting. How about you?

Google to pay almost $300 million to Mozilla to keep it the default search engine on Firefox

Google and Mozilla have had a good (and sometimes bad) relationship when it comes to business. The two are partners in one context and opponents in another. But still, they both kind of depend on each other to some extent. Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox are two of the most used browsers on more than one platform, and they both want to keep it that way. And since Firefox has a very good market share, Google wants its presence on it as the default search engine.

Google’s contract with Mozilla for this expired in November this year and now its time to renew that contract. And for the next year, Google is ready to pay Mozilla almost three times the money it paid last year. In the latest “State of Mozilla” report, it is clearly understandable that Google has contributed 84% of Mozilla’s $123 million in 2010, and that means Mozilla is lot dependent on Google for its own survival, dont you think so?

Now that Google is ready to increase the pay by three times, which comes to almost $300 million, Mozilla will be a bit short to $1 billion in revenue for the next year. That’s a great leap if you ask me. We will still see Google as the default search engine on Mozilla Firefox if this contract is signed, and I have no complaints. And since almost 94-96 percent of Google’s revenue comes from ads, this investment is very important for the company.

Google Nexus 7 announced at I/O event

As expected, Google unveiled the Nexus 7 at their developer event yesterday, which will be the first reference tablet for Android. The device, whose hardware is produced by Asus, will be the first device to use the next version of Google’s mobile operating system, 4.1 codename Jelly Bean.

The tablet is aimed squarely at the Amazon Kindle Fire, one of the best selling Android tablets of the year. It exists in the same 7″ form factor and $200 price point as the Fire, but offers Jelly Bean, the full Google Play store and some much more powerful hardware.

While the Kindle Fire is similar to the BlackBerry PlayBook, with a slow dual-core processor and half a gigabyte of RAM, the Nexus 7 includes a powerful quad-core Tegra 3 processor that debuted on the flagship Transformer Prime last year, as well as a full gigabyte of RAM. The display is also improved, with resolution being 1280 x 800 compared to the Fire’s 1024 x 600. Internal storage is still small, at 8 GB for the $200 model and 16 GB for the $250 model.

Jelly Bean includes a number of new features and changes to the already mature Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, as you’d expect from a point release.

Perhaps the biggest upgrade is ‘Project Butter’, which aims to get the whole OS running at a smooth 60 frames per second, through the addition of triple buffering for the UI, improved Vsync, changes to the CPU governor and the new Systrace tool for developers. All of this has really paid off, with the device feeling a lot more fluid than its predecessor.

The notification menu has been reworked, allowing you to see more information on incoming notifications and take action on them without needing to leave the notifications menu. The settings menu has been cleaned up, too. The lock screen now has a shortcut to Google Now, a context-sensitive search and information kiosk. Widgets now are more elegantly resizeable, and will gently displace other widgets or icons in their path. Offline voice recognition has been added. The camera UI has been updated. Chrome has been made the standard browser for the OS – that means no Flash.

Google and Asus have certainly worked well together to produce a tablet of this quality at such a low price point, and it’ll be interesting to see how Amazon respond with the follow-up to their Kindle Fire tablet, which is expected to be coming soon. Jelly Bean went beyond what I expected as well – I can’t wait to get it running on my Galaxy Nexus!

HTC J Butterfly impresses with 5″ 1080p display, Japan-only for now

This week HTC and KDDI au announced their first 1080p smartphone, the HTC J Butterfly. The J Butterfly has a massively pixel-dense 1920 x 1080p display that measures just five inches across. This is enough to put it barely into phablet territory, but the massive increase in display makes it one-of-a-kind.

The new display can play back Blurays and other Full HD content at native resolution without stretching, making it a media powerhouse. The fun continues with a powerful Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core processor running at 1.5 GHz, 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal storage – backed up by up to 32 GB of additional storage via micro SD. The phone features the same rear camera as the HTC One X, with the wide-angle front-facing 2.1 megapixel camera from the Windows Phone 8X by HTC.

A comparison between the iPhone 5 and J Butterfly, courtesy of The Verge.

The J Butterfly is running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, although a version with a UI similar to the Sensation that is apparently preferred in the Japanese market.

The J Butterfly looks to be a beautiful phone, and I’ll be curious to see the first reviews when it is launched this December. We should also see more 1080p displays in other smartphones, as the pixel density and image quality of the Super LCD 3 screen will mean that it’ll be hard to make acase for the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and its 5.5″ 720p screen. Exciting times!

Sony Xperia Bravia by Frank Tobias is Here

Frank Tobias has created a lot of Sony Xperia concepts, so a new one is always welcome. Today we greet the arrival of the Sony Xperia Bravia handset, pictured below and created by the same designer. This is a flagship model that may remind you of the Yuga smartphone, rumored to be in the making by Sony.

Frank Tobias didn’t mention any specs, so we can speculate freely on this device. As you can see, it’s extremely thin, so it’s probably around 7 or 8 mm in thickness and it weighs around 100 grams, maybe less than the 112 grams of the iPhone 5. It should pack a quad core Snapdragon S4 Pro CPU or maybe Samsung will lend its Exynos powerhouse. 2GB of RAM should be here, as well as a 12 megapixel camera, but an improved one, since the camera on Xperia S was a bit of a disappointment.

I dig the lower metal part of this Xperia phone and I have a feeling that it has something to do with Bravia TV design. To me it also feels a bit like the design is inspired by the Microsoft Surface tablet. I wouldn’t mind seeing some magnesium shell on a phone for once. So, what do you think about this Xperia flagship, that I guess is supposed to conquer the market in 2013?

Samsung Galaxy S IV Render Comes From Romania, Seems Cut Out of Galaxy S III

Since Victor Greavu, a designer with Romanian name sent us a render of the Samsung Galaxy S IV that has a Romanian language interface, we can conclude that this is the Eastern European version of the new Galaxy S. Although at first sight I was tempted to criticize this design, since it’s basically the display of the Galaxy S III cut out, it could actually work…

What if Samsung really created such a device, a mere frame surrounding a display and hiding a very thin body with hot hardware? How about a dual core ARM Cortex A15 processor inside? How about a Full HD 5 inch display? I’m sure both will make their way onto the Samsung Galaxy S III and I can bet that the camera resolution will jump past 10 megapixels and include some sort of new stabilization. S Voice is also expected to be improved, as well as gestures.

If the new Galaxy S does have such thin bezels, since you’ll keep touching them, it may be a good idea to implement some side swiping gestures. I imagine a system a la BlackBerry 10 OS, but that’s thinking a bit too far… So, while Victor’s design is too simple to actually impress, it may be a hint to what’s coming.

Samsung Galaxy S4 and TouchWiz 6.0 Get Fresh Concepts From Nikolai Prettner

Another day, another take on the Samsung Galaxy S4 design, this time from Nikolai Prettner. He also envisions the new TouchWiz, version 6.0, that he describes in the image below. TouchWiz 6.0 brings a big revamp of the whole concept, in order to truly compete with other smartphones and launchers on Android devices.

As far as the Samsung Galaxy S4 goes, it features a 12 megapixel main camera, a 4.5 megapixel front facing HD camera, a 1.9 GHz quad core processor and a 1080p Super AMOLED Plus flexible display, with a 5.1 inch diagonal. Other specs include an SD card slot, LTE, HSPA+, light sensor, wireless charging and 2650 mAh battery. The device comes in 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB versions. This handset runs Android Key Lime Pie 5.0 with TouchWiz 6.0, S Gestures, S Voice, S Note and S Music.
The design involves an aluminum frame, plastic back, flexible plastic screen and everything weighs 102 grams, so 10 grams less than the iPhone 5, but with a much bigger size. The thickness is also 7.5 mm, 0.1 mm less than the iPhone 5. TouchWiz 6.0 brings an improved S Voice, while the screen has S Note capabilities and S Gestures allows you to create custom gestures and trigger various features. The concept sounds very realistic to me. Does it sound the same to you?
[Thanks Nikolai Prettner]

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“Another World” Smartphone Seems Inspired by Tron

November 20th, 2012 (8 votes, average: 2.63 out of 5)
Wooseok Suh designed a very interesting concept smartphone called Another World, that somehow reminds us of Tron. The idea is to have a very clean interface and design, that blend together seamlessly. There seems to be a center ring on the phone, displaying its features, that are shown on the surface of the device with projections or similar mechanisms.

Another World Phone is a very thin device, with a slightly curved facade and a pretty long body. That central ring of the phone may remind one of the iPod’s center ring and I can’t really figure out if the entire front of the device is a display, or only the upper part. Anyway, the idea is very original and if the UI truly involves laser projections on the surface of the device, it’s an even more original phone, but one that’s not very comfortable.
I imagine that the ring on the front has a corresponding circular area at the back, which hosts the camera sensor. For some reason I’d imagine HTC or ASUS designing such a device and selling it as a fashion phone or haute couture item made of carbon. Ready for the Tron Phone?

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decorative and at times useful thing that can be 

seen with many people carried with their keys or

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 designed with many slots so that user can easily 

group their keys into categories such as 

car keys, home keys or office keys. It features a 

simple sliding mechanism so that you can quickly 

access the keys. You can check out the exploded view 

with several pieces fitting together without much 

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Title says it all. A perfect gadget anyone wants to own, I suppose? [Pavel Balykin via yankodesign]