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Nano-Chromatic, Unibody iPhones Seem Plausible (Concepts)

Softpedia has come across a couple of next-generation iPhone concepts, one of which is arguably the boldest yet. Knowing how Apple likes to throw in a bit of color every now and then, as well as surprise the fans, the iPhone Nano Chromatic Concept may not be that far-fetched, actually. French website Nowhere Else ha...

18 May 2009
09:28 GMT

Behold, the Apple NetBook (Mockup)

A 3D artist's renderings posted over at MacFormat look very close to what Apple may be working on, Softpedia believes. The “Apple NetBook,” as the mockup is named, would boast a portable home directory (cloud-based), use an uplifted version of the iPhone OS, sit in a docking station, connect to a key...

30 April 2009
05:32 GMT

2nd Next-Gen iPhone Concept Today – More Realistic

As reported earlier today, next-gen iPhone mockups and concept designs are simmering in fanboys' anticipation of WWDC '09 and the possible certain release of new iPhone models. The latest such mockups come via Modmyi, whose posters have hopped on the iPhone-concept train to offer mighty realistic and exciti...

14 April 2009
09:04 GMT

Unibody iPhone is Made of Glass and Aluminum (Mockup)

With WWDC '09 approaching fast, Apple fanboys are relentlessly photoshopping in an attempt to predict what the new iPhone will look like, and how it will work. The latest iPhone mockups seem highly unlikely, considering Apple's hate for user-removable batteries on small devices, as well as bulky designs, bu...

14 April 2009
03:09 GMT

iPhone 3 Concept Is 100% Wireless

While some may have grown tired of seeing iPhone fanboy concepts, this thing here is just too gorgeous to miss out on. Based on the thinness of the device at its upper and lower sides, no cables of any sort would go into this iPhone model, except perhaps for the charger's.“Could this be the next iPhone?&rd...

30 March 2009
09:21 GMT

New Apple Netbook Mock-Ups Hit the Web

Following the uncovering of new evidence that Apple may be working on a new portable product, the Internet was on fire with Apple-netbook rumors and tablet mock-ups. Two of the latest such concepts have recently been posted by Cult of Mac readers. Courtesy of the site, we are able to share them with you today.Reader ...

11 March 2009
06:53 GMT

CeBIT 2009: ASUS to Showcase the Marine Cool Concept Motherboard

ASUS appears to have remembered one of the main reasons it has become famous among computer enthusiasts, namely its capability of creating high-end motherboards. Just days away from the CeBIT 2009 computer show in Hanover, Germany, ASUS has unveiled a new concept for a high-end motherboard, dubbed Marine Cool. Design...

26 February 2009
09:27 GMT

iPhone Air, Apple's Next Best Thing - Concept

Another cool concept emerging this week is the MacBook Air-styled iPhone 4G. The surreal device not only boasts the design particularities of the world's thinnest notebook, but also functionality currently only available with Mac OS X. Here's a hint: it uses your iSight camera. That's right, the 4G iP...

19 February 2009
11:21 GMT

Touch Pad + Mac Mini Concept

We've just come across another Mac mini mod, but this time it's only a concept. San Francisco artist Benjamin Harvey has thought up a Touch Pad that would make great friends with a Mac mini, eliminating the need of buying peripherals for the mini desktop computer.The TouchPad + Mac mini concept was posted b...

18 February 2009
04:34 GMT

The All New Mac Pro – Concept

The Mac Pro is a workstation computer manufactured by Apple Inc. Originally announced on August 7, 2006 at the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC), the system is known as the most powerful in Apple's line of desktop computers, boasting an impressive capacity for expansion.Like the Mac mini, the Mac Pro hasn&...

9 February 2009
09:08 GMT

Mac Keyboard with Programmable OLED Keys - Concept

Speaking of out-of-the-ordinary keyboards, Cosmo Scharf has a design of himself, but it's not a tangible one. Still, it looks interesting and useful enough to share with the likes of you. “I've been planning this for a while now, and I've finally finished,” Scharf says. “My Apple key...

19 January 2009
07:05 GMT

The Mac Tower Is the Most 'Sound' Mac Ever

Some Mac fanatics may know Sait Alanyali for his incredible Mac mini concept. Probably the same relentless fans were the ones who prompted the talented designer to come up with a new, more ambitious concept – the Mac Tower. “This is my second mac design,” Sait Alanyali wrote on his web site. &ldquo...

14 January 2009
09:36 GMT

Sony Ericsson G910 and a New Bravia: Concepts That Don't Look Like SE Handsets

While Sony Ericsson is busy with the release of Xperia X1, the company's fans are still trying to design phone concepts exactly the way they would want them to be. The latest emerged SE concepts are (as in most cases of fan-made concepts) two eye candies that would most likely be bound for success if ever built ...

30 September 2008
06:30 GMT

Motorola Z12 Eclipse Concept Spotted

While other manufacturers have come up with super-high-end devices like HTC Touch HD, LG KC910, Samsung Innov8, Sony Ericsson C905, Nokia N96 and iPhone 3G, Motorola doesn't seem to have a handset that can really wow customers. We are not going to look now for the reasons why this is happening, but we will prese...

18 September 2008
08:03 GMT

Teddy Bear Phone – from Japan with Love

Teddy bears can hardly be associated with high-end technology, but Japan – the country where almost anything has to do with the T-word – thinks otherwise. The proof is a teddy bear phone concept that was presented during the 2008 Good Design Expo. Dubbed Kuma Phone, the "teddy bear device" is made by...

2 September 2008
08:53 GMT

Nokia Touchscreen Phone Concept Made in Brazil

Amidst the hype created by the official presentation of Nokia's latest N85 and N79 Nseries handsets, few might have noticed a newly-appeared concept phone that comes as one of the most interesting "unreal Nokias" seen so far. Designed by Ulisses Gardim from Sao Paolo, Brazil, the new Nokia concept (which wa...

28 August 2008
03:08 GMT

Motorola Sparrow - An All-in-One Touchscreen Concept

Motorola is surely no stranger to touchscreen technology, despite the fact that most of its touch-enabled mobile devices are being commercialized in China only. Still, the once-glorious Moto is said to be preparing several new touchscreen handsets to conquer the US and European markets, but no official details about ...

9 August 2008
06:45 GMT

Luxury Sony Ericsson Concept - An Eiffel Tower in Miniature

We've recently spotted a Sony Ericsson concept that can surely be categorized as one of the most extravagant potential mobile phones ever designed. This new virtual handset is named Sony Ericsson French Luxury, or Sony Ericsson FL, and is made to celebrate the July 14 French National Day, also known as Bastille ...

19 July 2008
07:57 GMT

Sony Ericsson Video Phone Concept is Weird

We've seen lots of Sony Ericsson phone concepts until today, and we'll surely see many others from now on, but one of the weirdest and at the same time nicest SE concept is the so-called Sony Ericsson Video Phone. Like most of the Sony Ericsson concepts, the Video Phone does not come from the Swedish-Japa...

4 July 2008
11:47 GMT

New Nokia ShapeShift Concept Phone

After the amazing Morph handset, presented by Nokia at the beginning of the year, we now have another shape-shifting concept to bear the Finnish giant manufacturer's logo. Named exactly Nokia ShapeShift, the new concept is not presented by Nokia, as it was the case with Morph, but by Rune Larsen, a designer who ...

26 June 2008
08:26 GMT

Intuit - Dual Touchscreen Multimedia Phone Concept

Intuit is the name of a new and unique mobile phone concept that proposes not one, but two full touchscreen displays packed into a multimedia-center device. Before presenting the new concept, we must say that it was conceived by Eddie Goh, who has also designed the E-Ten Glofiish X800 Pocket PC that was released on t...

5 June 2008
12:42 GMT

Pokemon MMO Popped

We don't really know whether you have ever heard about independent game developers Nnooo - they are the folks currently working on a WiiWare title called Pop where you have to... pop bubble balloons in order to score points. Yes, not exactly the funniest thing to do on your spare time, but nobody is perfect. Any...

19 May 2008
15:06 GMT

Mimique Phone Concept, Touchscreen for Kids

"Mimique" is the name of a recently unveiled mobile phone concept that should be a response to the all-serious PDA-like devices that conquered the market in the last years. Viewed from the back, the Mimique looks like a toy with an external antenna and rounded edges. Viewed from the front, the handset still looks lik...

19 May 2008
05:55 GMT

The First Touchscreen Egg Phone

A young designer from Prague, the capital of Czech Republic, recently came up with a fresh and good looking mobile phone concept, called the Egg Phone. Far from being bulky like an egg, the new handset has an oval-shaped, curved case that seems to be quite slim and, more important, it can probably fit well in users&...

10 May 2008
06:16 GMT

People First - New Nokia Phone Concept

Nokia is continuously thinking about new ways of creating and designing mobile phones and one of the latest concepts unveiled by the Finnish giant is a handset named "People First". Part of the so-called "Homegrown" research project, the new concept is devoted to "time, lists, and people" and its purpose is to make t...

8 May 2008
05:46 GMT

The Lightest Mobile Phone in the World is Officially modu

The lightest mobile phone ever created by mankind was officially declared modu, as a group of Guinness World Records judges found the device to only weigh exactly 40.1 grams (or 1.41 ounces, for the US citizens that don't really know what a gram is). The modu phone was first announced during MWC 2008, in Feb...

25 March 2008
10:11 GMT

Motorola Unique Concept With Stereo Camera

We recently came across a new Motorola phone concept that looks really good and has some considerable chances, which is to be built sometime in the future by the American company. Maybe not exactly in the way it looks now, but in a similar mode. The most interesting aspect of the new concept is the fact that it has ...

15 March 2008
08:17 GMT

New Sony Ericsson Gaming Phone Concept - a PSP Phone?

Sony Ericsson sure filed a lot of patent applications in the last period/year, and among the most recent applications there's a very interesting one that might become the much talked-about PSP phone, or at least a handset that resembles it. The patent application talks about a touchscreen enabled device (wit...

10 March 2008
14:32 GMT

Mooon+ Cell Phone Concept With Detachable Bluetooth Headset

Mobile phone concepts come and go all the time, many of them being far from what you'd call "doable". This is not the case with a newly spotted concept named Mooon+ (yes, three o's and not two). Mooon+ was imagined by the Korean designer Sunman Kwon and offers a wide touchscreen display, no hardware keypad ...

7 March 2008
06:55 GMT

Tattoo Cell Phone Concept - Fueled by Your Own Blood!

One of the weirdest cell phone concepts ever is the "Digital Tattoo Interface" imagined by Jim Mielke, and I'm not sure under what category should it be classified: funny, creepy or innovative? The concept entered the "Greener Gadgets Design Competition" initiated by Core77 and Greener Gadgets, and although it d...

1 March 2008
08:06 GMT

Atlas Kinetic Cell Phone Concept - No Battery Required

As years go by, more and more cell phone concepts appear, some from important manufacturers and other from simple users that believe they have a great idea and want to share it with the whole world. One of the latest concepts unveiled is the Atlas Kinetic cell phone, a handset that doesn't have a battery, bec...

27 February 2008
15:41 GMT

The World's First Modular Mobile Phone is Here and Seems Awesome

modu Ltd., an Israeli company, announced the release of the first modular mobile phone, named simply modu. Smaller than an iPod Nano, the modu phone weighs only 42 grams (1.5 ounces), it's sleek, easy to use, and can be integrated into a variety of so called "modu jackets" or "modu mates", which are actually dif...

8 February 2008
05:32 GMT

New Sony Ericsson Phone Concept Reveals Detachable Display

Sony Ericsson filed lately several patent applications, showing clear intentions to innovate its future line-up of mobile phones with different technologies, from touchscreen to motion control. A new patent application surfaced recently, this time for a phone with a detachable display. Called "Detachable Housings fo...

4 February 2008
08:47 GMT

Sony Ericsson C1i Concept With Multi-touch UIQ Interface

Sony Ericsson is probably the mobile manufacturer that benefits from the highest number of concept phones imagined by its fans. Or at least this is how it seems, as unofficial Sony Ericsson concepts keep on appearing one after another, bringing phones that many of us would want to become real. In the past two months,...

28 January 2008
03:43 GMT

New Virtual Keyboard Imagined by Nokia

Nokia keeps on filing patent applications with the clear intention to make future improvements in the way users interact with mobile phones. After a patent filed in December 2007 for a 2 in 1 keypad idea, now the Finnish company has another keyboard-related idea, but this time we are talking about a virtual one (the ...

25 January 2008
13:31 GMT

Sony Ericsson W520i Concept: Touchscreen and Music

A new Sony Ericsson concept phone appeared these days, Sony Ericsson W520i, a handset that should integrate into the Walkman series if the Swedish-Japanese manufacturer will ever decide to produce it. If not, we'll be left with just a concept, but at least it's a very nice one, as all the latest Sony Ericss...

21 January 2008
07:24 GMT

Nokia N96, Myth or Reality?

Evolution is something we all aim for, right? Well, Nokia is a company that always evolved, so if we think logically, a Nokia N96 mobile phone should come somewhere in the near future, since the N95 model is released. But until now there has been no official information or announcement about this, all we have is rumo...

18 December 2007
05:35 GMT

Nokia Develops Revolutionary Phone Software Concept

It was a warm morning of May 2014 when I went out shopping with my old 10 Megapixel Nokia cell phone. I took pictures of almost anything I wanted to buy and then headed towards a library to buy "The Masterpiece", a classic novel by Émile Zola that I wanted for some time. While photographing the book through the libra...

17 December 2007
07:29 GMT

BenQ SL98 Prototype Hits the Market

A few moths ago, BenQ Siemens unveiled a new mobile phone concept, the SL98 model, which had and still has all the chances to reinvent the idea of slider phone. Instead of having a display that slides to uncover the keypad (you know, like Nokia N95, LG Chocolate or Samsung U700 - just to name a few successful sliders...

11 December 2007
10:43 GMT

Thomson's Mysterious PMP Strips Off Touchscreen!

I can't believe my eyes! Just when I though touch screen mania was more contagious than ever, somebody does this brave gesture and designs a glossy portable media player with...analog controls? Well, I said somebody, not anybody, as Thomson itself is the maker behind this chic PMP concept. However, for whom it m...

10 December 2007
12:26 GMT

Voguish MP3 Concept for Sissy Geeks!

Does anyone listen to that round-shaped bulky and annoying Walkman anymore? As far as I am concerned, the Walkman is dead! However, there are some who'd rather invest some money in small businesses than completely deny the idea of the ultimate MP3 revolution. In this case, it seems the basic functionality is the...

28 November 2007
04:47 GMT

Fresh Motion Tracking Prototype from Keynetik

Keynetik's new concept could very well be worthy of surpassing the touchscreen in terms of popularity, if properly promoted. Their prototype uses motion instead of touch for navigation through the menu and this sounds highly futuristic and with great potential for setting a new trend.At this time, Keynetik'...

15 November 2007
06:18 GMT

Pen Phone Concept...Is It Possible?

From all the ludacris ideas that mobile phone concept developers have come up with, the pen phone has all chances of earning itself a special place. This concept's creator actually hopes on a future deployment of the idea, as it could turn out to be pretty successful.Watches with integrated mobile phones must ha...

8 November 2007
10:55 GMT

LG Touch and Sony Ericsson Pxi Gorgeous Phone Concepts

Some stunning new mobile phone concepts have surfaced over the last period, although there is no way the handset producers will take them into consideration. Sony Ericsson never did, although some great concepts appeared throughout time and there are low chances that other such companies will.LG has been less of an i...

31 October 2007
12:08 GMT

Nokia S60 Application Concepts Revealed

Nokia jumped on the occasion of showing off its latest application concepts for the S60 phone series. The company presented all the software with great potential of being deployed in the future during the "The way to live next" event recently held at Oulu, Finland.Among the most interesting applications presented, th...

29 October 2007
05:10 GMT

LG Shows Off Rolex Concept Phone

A mobile phone based on the design of Rolex watches is not too difficult to think of. It's nothing more than a concept at this time though, and no official image of the LG Rolex handset has surfaced, but there are high chances that such a device will be out on the market in the future. The concept was spotted a...

11 October 2007
08:12 GMT

Nokia Patents for Intuitive Touchscreen Phone

Touchscreen enabled mobile phones have taken a major leap over the past period. Nokia has seen that and rumors state that this producer will bring out its first handset using this technology as soon as next year. The company's interest in it has also led to the filing of an innovative patent.What's the main...

8 October 2007
06:42 GMT

Sony Ericsson Konan, an Expressive New Concept

Sony Ericsson mobile phone concepts are some of the most impressive ones that seem to show up. The latest one that has managed to arouse the interest of many people is the Konan: Beauty Renaissance 2.0 one.It is rather strange how Sony Ericsson seems to be the only handset producer that manages to inspire people to d...

19 September 2007
06:03 GMT

Sony Ericsson Patents for Touchscreen Phone

The touchscreen craze has hit Sony Ericsson too. The company has used this technology in some of its previous phone models before, but it looks like they are now looking deeper into its potential. A patent for a programmable touchscreen keypad has been filed and approved, although it's still nothingmore than a m...

17 September 2007
05:33 GMT

Sony Ericsson DramaVIEW Lively Concept

Sony Ericsson seems to be the most inspiring mobile phone producer out there, as innovative ideas based on its devices continue to make a large number of concepts surface. The DramaVIEW one is highly interesting, bringing a personal touch to the handset, along with a great deal of innovation.Personalized mobile phone...

15 September 2007
02:31 GMT


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