Sunday, February 19th, 2012
(165 votes, average: 4.97 out of 5)
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My wish came true! I posted on the Concept Phones Facebook Page a challenge for designers to try and imagine the way Android 5.0 Jelly Bean will look and already there’s an idea. Hasan Kaymak imagined the HTC Dark concept phone, a quad core phone with the future Android on it. This device relies on a Qualcomm S4 quad core processor at 1.7 GHz.
HTC Dark also uses a full HD display with the LG Nova technology, a 4.7 inch diagonal and Gorilla Glass 2 protection. Sense UI 5.0 is also on board, with some nifty blue-ish hues and a blue LED notification system. We also get Bluetooth 4.0, LTE, WiFi (60Ghz) and wireless charging. Powering this HTC concept there’s a 2500 mAh Li-Ion battery. There’s also a camera at the back which the designer didn’t mention, but I imagine it’s a 12 megapixel or 8 megapixel unit with 1080p capture at 60 fps.
The interface of this Android 5.0 render is particularly clear and clean and the notification area looks very nice. This certainly is not your average Sense UI experience and as you can see, the four capacitive buttons are back, instead of the three in Android 4.0. I wonder if Google will do that, considering they’re preaching the use of 3 buttons instead of 4 now…
[via HTC Concepts]
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Friday, February 17th, 2012
(29 votes, average: 3.31 out of 5)
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If you’re tired of phone mockups, renders and prototypes, this time we show you a sketch of a HTC concept phone created by
Adam Jonovski. He imagined a HTC smartphone with a pretty bulky case and 4 capacitive buttons at the bottom, with one of them being a Google+ one. Just like those HTC Facebook phones, this is a device focused on social networking.
The device seems to have an interesting integration of the camera and these models here are actually two separate units. The second one has a unique camera sensor, bulkier than the rest of the case and seems separated from it, while the buttons at the front remind me of the Lenovo ThinkPad tablet. I like the way that camera area slopes up into a bulkier piece of the case. That’s an interesting form factor. I also see that Adam likes rectangular handsets, so there’s no trace of rounded edge on the second phone.
The first model, with the Google+ integration seems to run Android 4.0, has A Verizon branding and the idea of Google+ phone really makes me excited. I am a big Google+ fan, much more than Facebook and Twitter, that are already integrated into most smartphones. Are we ready to receive Google’s social networking service on our handsets as a button and omnipresent feature?
[via Coroflot]
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Sunday, February 5th, 2012
(79 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)
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Ryan Sheehan sent me an email showing the HTC Orion 4G concept, a high end smartphone, with an interesting design. As you can see, the phone has Verizon branding, so the designer already has a carrier in mind. We’re dealing here with a quad core phone, that features a 1080p display and runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
The interface and icons look very playful, to be honest and somehow remind me of webOS, believe it or not. HTC Orion 4G adopts a wrap-around design and uses a 4.5 inch 16:9 screen with the above mentioned resolution. It runs Android Ice Cream Sandwich with HTC Sense 4.0 on top of a 2 GHz quad core processor. There’s also a 12 megapixel camera on board of this HTC concept, with 1080p video capture, plus a 720p 5MP camera, NFC, 2GB of RAM and a 2000 mAh battery.
The Orion 4G uses a magnetic charging port and it’s available in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB versions. This looks like a solid Samsung Galaxy S III rival, certainly more solid than the HTC Sensation was against the Galaxy S II. The design is kind of simple for HTC, that sometimes likes to complicate things and include a protective shell as a case, one that houses the components, but can be detached, like on the HTC Sensation XE and original Sensation.
[Thanks Ryan Sheehan]
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Friday, January 20th, 2012
(12 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5)
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Rybarczyk Francois had a brilliant idea of creating a HTC concept with a magnesium unibody frame and an extra battery module, that will increase the functioning time of the handset. There lower back side of the phone is imprinted with a pattern done through machining. You can set this phone to charge directly onto the wall and as far as I can see the device incorporates the charger that you’ll attach to the socket.
There’s also the option of leaving an extra battery module to charge and attaching it to the device for a fast juice up of the smartphone. This HTC design looks pretty fancy and the idea of having the prongs and charging mechanism integrated into the phone is certainly interesting. The design reminds a bit of the recent HTC Edge quad core phone render and it’s very sleek and elegant. This rounded device gives me the impression that it’s actually one of those smaller cellphones, with a 3.2 inch diagonal or close.
As you can see, in some versions this handset runs Windows Phone and in others Android, with the associated capacitive keys being placed below the display. I must say that I like particularly the version with Android and its capacitive keys…
[via Coroflot]
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Friday, January 13th, 2012
(55 votes, average: 4.76 out of 5)
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Deviantart member ArtLime created an interesting concept interface for Android Ice Cream Sandwich and applied it to a HTC design called Skyline. The UI is simply called Simple UI and it’s very minimalistic, this design traits being clear especially in the lockscreen, home menu and applications area. The lockscreen involves a simple sliding bar and it shows all the notifications one needs (alarms, missed calls, texts and emails).
The Home menu is very standard with 4 dock icons at the bottom, that include the classic Back and Recent apps virtual buttons, while the My Applications menu seems to include a Games section and a Favorites section. As far as the HTC Skyline concept is concerned, this model resembles the HTC Rhyme quite a bit and its front styling also reminds me of the HTC HD 7. This Android phone probably has a 5 or 8 megapixel camera, 16GB of internal memory, 1 GB of RAM and most likely a dual core processor, although HTC recently launched some single core handsets that were actually decent.
I guess that the display here is around 4 inches in diagonal, a choice that HTC didn’t quite tackle so far, if I’m not mistaking. What do you think about this nifty Android 4.0 UI and handset?
[via Deviantart]
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Monday, January 2nd, 2012
(133 votes, average: 4.79 out of 5)
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Hasan Kaymak is back in 2012 with a new design, the one of the HTC concept phone called Cemile. HTC Cemile uses a full HD 1920 x 1080 pixel display with a 4.8 inch diagonal, thus becoming the largest Android smartphone out there, unless you count the Galaxy Note as a handset.
This concept HTC also comes with a 16 megapixel camera with dual LED flash, a front 2 megapixel camera, NFC support, Bluetooth 4.0 and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with HTC Sense UI 4.0. The phone relies on a 2500mAh Li-Akku battery for juicing up the machine and the specs list also includes HSPA+ connectivity, LTE, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n and 60GHz support (a new wireless technology). HTC Cemile adopts a metallic case as chassis and it provides 32GB of flash memory for storage purposes.
It also has changeable virtual buttons, that are easy to tweak, courtesy of a special feature from HTC. The handset also gets Wide IO Mobile RAM, a next generation 30nm type of RAM memory, with 50% less power usage compared to the equivalent DDR2 sticks. Also you must know that Cemile is supposed to ship with Beats Audio with Solo earphones. I imagine that the design of this device is pretty thin, looking at this pictures, something like 8mm or so. Fancy this smartphone?
[via HTC Concepts]
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
(111 votes, average: 4.21 out of 5)
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Bob Freking is back with a new design, the HTC Destiny concept, that brings us a camera that’s able to rival the DSLR experience. HTC Destiny is a flagship phone with 2GB of RAM and a 16 megapixel camera, capable of 1080p HD video capture. Shooting qualities borrowed from top notch cameras from the DSLR line are expected…
The handset also features a quad core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor, it runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with HTC Sense UI and it packs a 4.5 inch 1080p AMOLED display with 453 ppi. The HTC Destiny is meant as a series, that will include models such as the Destiny S, Destiny Tab (probably a tablet), Destiny HD (what’s more HD than 1080p display?!), Destiny Pro (has a keyboard most likely) and more. Do you fancy such a device?
As far as design goes, I can see here that the unibody styling is back among the trends and that front side of the smartphone is looking great. The navigation buttons in Android 4.0 seem a bit cramped between the dock area of the OS and the HTC logo, but that’s an experience only a real user can approve or criticize.
[Thanks Bob]
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Sunday, December 18th, 2011
(33 votes, average: 3.97 out of 5)
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HTC Sensation EX II is a HTC concept phone created by Maika Sylva, from Rotterdam, Netherlands. The designer imagined a smartphone with an incredible 5.5 inch diagonal screen, that’s actually bigger than some tablets out there such as the Dell Streak and even the Samsung Galaxy Note.
HTC Sensation EX I comes Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with Sense UI, probably in version 4.0, although the designer didn’t specify that. The 5.5 inch HTC features a Super LCD qHD screen with 1200 x 675 pixel resolution, a main 10 megapixel camera with autofocus and a 2 megapixel front camera. The main cam is also capable of 1080p video recording, if you’re wondering.
Other specs of this futuristic HTC include 1GB of RAM, 16GB of ROM and a Li-Ion 1730 mAh battery. The brain of the handset is a 2GHz dual core Qualcomm processor. As far as design goes, the phone keeps the classic HTC Sensation looks, but expands the front section. You know what would be cool? Having all the front area and I mean ALL be one single huge display, with the Home, Menu, Back and Search buttons also becoming part of the screen and allowing for more video viewing space.
[via coroflot]
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
(29 votes, average: 4.62 out of 5)
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Alexander Black just sent us an email with a HTC concept that he designed, once again a device that runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Meet the HTC Pyro, a fire red devil with a 2GHz quad core Snapdragon processor and a 12 megapixel camera at the back.
Its design reminds me of a combo between the Nokia N9 and the HTC Incredible S. HTC Pyro comes with 4.8 inch Super AMOLED display, an 8 megapixel front camera, that will generate some HD video calls and Beats by Dr. Dre headphones. Considering I’ve been hearing so much about HTC quad core phones for 2012, this handset will come from concept phase to real life pretty fast, that’s for sure.
I just hope that HTC will get over the handicap of using so little RAM (768MB), so little internal memory (1GB) and poor cameras. It’s a known fact that HTC doesn’t create the best cameras on smartphones, although I have to admit that the HTC Sensation XE cam was decent. However, they’re still far from the level of Samsung Galaxy S II and Galaxy Note. Megapixels aren’t the solution here…
[via Alexander Black]
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Monday, November 14th, 2011
(34 votes, average: 4.35 out of 5)
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HTC Sense 3.5 is not even out on so many devices out there and already there’s talk of Sense 4.0 and even Sense UI 4.1 Plus, the concept imagined by Hasan Kaymak. He created the HTC Classic concept phone, that you can see below, following up on a series of HTC designs created by the same man.
HTC Classic comes with a metallic case, a 9 megapixel camera with LED flash at the rear, a 2 megapixel camera at the front and a 4.7 inch 720p display. The latter reminds me of the HTC Sensation XL, aside from the resolution of the display. The device runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with Sense UI 4.1 Plus and on board you’ll also find Bluetooth 4.0, WiFi b/g/n, GPS and Bluetooth Data Transfer, a new feature on the device.
The smartphone is 8.6mm thick, comes with Beats Audio technology and uSchool, an app for students that translates, solves math problems and much more. There’s also an extra GPS sensor for extra sensitive locating and finding things easier. This can’t be considered a futuristic device, since such smartphones will be seen plentiful at MWC 2012.
[via HTC Concepts]
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