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I know that most people that get smartphones don't usually put design at the top of their list, but... Why are smartphones beginning to look alike? I know that I am probably not the only one that notices this, but shouldn't companies do something innovative with the design of smartphones? For the most part, nearly every smartphone looks like a rectangle with curved edges.

lol and what you had in mind man? Thats like reinventing the wheel, but hey they can improve the design but I am sure it will remain similar as alot of research went in to it. Far as the curved edge goes specially in NS its to much I want my device flat lol in this case I hate to say as iPhone is best example.
iPhone 4 shell and LG Optimus 2X hardware with 4.5" display would be my dream device ill never upgrade it. Dell Steak well thats another matter but hey never watched StarTrek? ever saw those assignment pads looks like small tablets? lol

A few things are being done to change phone design a bit, but right now I think most are either very niche because of bad insides to match, or just a design/prototype for now. Most still use the same rectangle I think, but change a lot in the basic design
This one seems like a great idea, If it could be expanded upon it could be turned into a proper book-style thing for ebooks
http://www.pcworld.com/article/217119/holy_multitouch_batman_its_the_threescreen_smartphone.html
And there's the Motorola Flipout
http://www.cnet.com.au/motorola-flipout-339306728.htm
And the Continuum, with 2 screens
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/11/samsungs-continuum-the-galaxy-s-gains-a-little-ticker/

Its clear man you don't obviously own a freaking communicator.
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Yall keep using your primitive "chell phoans" ill stick with my superior communicator.

STHNS said:
lol and what you had in mind man? Thats like reinventing the wheel, but hey they can improve the design but I am sure it will remain similar as alot of research went in to it. Far as the curved edge goes specially in NS its to much I want my device flat lol in this case I hate to say as iPhone is best example.
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Maybe some small changes, not major, but distinctive enough to make them not boring. The myTouch 4g and the Sony Xperia Arc are distinctive enough in my opinion. Even the Incredible does something different with it's rather odd battery door (I still don't get what HTC was thinking).
From a distance, you can't really tell the difference between the HTC EVO, HTC Desire HD, and HTC Thunderbolt. Same goes with the Samsung Focus, Nexus S, Vibrant, Fasinate, Epic (without revealing keyboard obviously) along with some of their newer phones. Most of the dual core phones look the same as well.
Oh and a white phone would be nice even though I prefer black.
For tablets, there is not much to be done. Unless of course, the Microsoft Courier comes to life.
darkwater13 said:
This one seems like a great idea, If it could be expanded upon it could be turned into a proper book-style thing for ebooks
http://www.pcworld.com/article/217119/holy_multitouch_batman_its_the_threescreen_smartphone.html
And there's the Motorola Flipout
http://www.cnet.com.au/motorola-flipout-339306728.htm
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I like the idea of a three screen smartphone, oh and changing the led color reminds me of Alienware.
They also have the Backflip, the Charm and the Droid Pro. Yet, some of the Motorola phones aren't as creative in terms of design.

Do any of you remember seeing the Nokia N90 for the first time? Lots of companies want to innovate, but probably worry about loss of profits it the design is bad.
If you want to see "innovation," you can check out shanzai.com and check out their selection of phones. It is basically a website that shows fake/copied versions of current phones avaliable in the world (usually from China). The "innovation" part being some of the designs may make you think WTF.

"This one seems like a great idea, If it could be expanded upon it could be turned into a proper book-style thing for ebooks
http://www.pcworld.com/article/217119/holy_multitouch_batman_its_the_threescreen_smartphone.html"
Thanks for showing this. It is indeed a remarkable looking device.
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Yeah, if that got off the ground and made into a full phone, it'd be great
Oh and a white phone would be nice even though I prefer black.
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I've thought that myself before, but it wouldn't work too well around the front because the black works as a great contrast to make the screen look better. I think that's why iPhone has white only on the back

copius said:
Do any of you remember seeing the Nokia N90 for the first time? Lots of companies want to innovate, but probably worry about loss of profits it the design is bad.
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The n90 does look a little weird, but feature phones are more likely to be distinguishable from one and another. Than again, they are feature phones.
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I've thought that myself before, but it wouldn't work too well around the front because the black works as a great contrast to make the screen look better. I think that's why iPhone has white only on the back
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A white BlackBerry Bold does look a little weird. Although, the European Hero/HTC Legend does look nice. Maybe if buttonless phones are invented, we might see more white phones.

I would love to have more for options; unless im missing something, it is just s different color platic right? I can understand that it would complicate production of the phone and all, but I would love some color variants.
Hell, they could even sell one phone as is and charge to have the plates swapped out at official carrier stores; sort of like getting parts of an iphone fixed at an apple store.

canadariot2312 said:
From a distance, you can't really tell the difference between the HTC EVO, HTC Desire HD, and HTC Thunderbolt.
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Regarding Evo and Desire HD it's pretty logical as DHD is the European version of Evo.
FLAC Vest said:
I would love to have more for options; unless im missing something, it is just s different color platic right? I can understand that it would complicate production of the phone and all, but I would love some color variants.
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Like you I would like to be able to choose between different colors but it's certainly more expensive to produce different colors than only one as you have to launch different batch campaigns while you launch only one if you stick to one color.
But I'm not sure this is the only reason manufacturers stick to classical colors (black or grey). I think that most people prefer a classical color and green, red, pink colors would sell not as good as black.
Another design: have you seen the HTC Tube concept? It's really gorgeous.

Well, like you said, they can only do so much you know? But you also have to remember that theyre trying to sell a phone, and that means speaking to as many different types of people as possible. This results in somewhat limited design because they cant stray too far from.... well black; how many adults want a colorful phone? But thats just taking something like color into account.

I don't know what other guys think about it, but for me I only concentrate on smartphone's functions.
I thinks smartphone is starting like NB, similar design with similar hw, except the Logo;-)
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It would be nice if manufacturers added some customisation options into the phones they sell. Being able to have an engraving done when ordering a Nexus One from Google was a nice touch.
Perhaps more colour schemes and custom designed or patterned rear covers etc to help individualise our devices and set them apart.

HTC New Eden Project

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This screen.
1GB+ RAM.
Dual-core CPU with decent graphics performance (if need be, look to suppliers other than Qualcomm) - that screen will need a fair amount of processing clout to back it up.
A big-ass battery.

Nice looking

For me:
I'd like a device where I wouldn't have to touch the screen to scroll. Maybe a reactive sensor built into the case that I could slide my hand and scroll the screen. Not a wheel or buttons, but something integrated into the screen or case. See the red line in the pic.
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too much wasted real estate on your design.
Use the HD2 as a starting point and improve from there.

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Your concept 2/HD3 one is what I'm talking about. Very industrial and sleek. Though for the capacitive keys at the bottom, I think a better design would to get rid of the bottom row, and instead, incorporate a hardware button on the side to toggle the onscreen/virtual buttons (menu, search, back, etc). Of course, having a realistic design is one thing, but for a concept, I think the future will do away with front buttons for a more cleaner look and thus having an effective full size screen from corner to corner with 3-4mm of bezel in between. I mean, looking back 5 years, you have hard keys gradually evolving into soft keys and it's only a natural evolution to have no keys at all. Virtual keys would be the new thing.

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exactly! Though I know it's not for everyone, but if the intention of the idea/concept is to create a high-end smartphone for the future, everything has to be big, sleek and seamless. For instance, god forbid if I say this, but the iphone4 is heading toward that direction. You have a phone that doesn't have odd buldge from the camera or a hump in the back for the gps and whatnot and it's just a wonderful design sans the screen size. Rumor has it that Apple might be getting rid of the round button at the bottom and will probably utilize some sort of switch on the side to toggle the onscreen buttons/menus.

lude219 said:
I think a better design would to get rid of the bottom row, and instead, incorporate a hardware button on the side to toggle the onscreen/virtual buttons (menu, search, back, etc).
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That's something I've pondered about from time to time, except I envisaged a secondary layer to the screen using some form of transparent LCD/OLED tech that the function buttons would appear on, so that they were completely disconnected from the main screen and would still function if, say, an app had frozen, in the way that proper buttons continue to work even if what's happening on screen has started to mess up.
There'd still need to be some hardware buttons other than the power button though, otherwise how would we boot into recover/bootloader etc?
lude219 said:
exactly! Though I know it's not for everyone, but if the intention of the idea/concept is to create a high-end smartphone for the future, everything has to be big, sleek and seamless.
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Well, in that case, can't we do one better than Apple?
Especially if it's just going to be a concept...
Imagine a phone with completely rounded-off edges, kinda like two iPhone 3GSs placed screen-to-screen, only thinner of course.
You could have the screen cover the entire front half of the phone, including the front of the the curved areas. That'd be truly seamless.
Of course, that's just if you're limiting yourself to a semi-conventional design.
Given the potential advances in flexible displays in the next couple of years as well as recent breakthroughs in creating flexible circuitry, future smartphones could be very different indeed...

Well,I for one would like to see two high-quality stereo speakers,probably on top and bottom.That would be a true multimedia phone for me.
One more thing,to help out the gamers,would be something like a small,thin slide-out glass touch sensitive pad,on which the necessary buttons would appear for each game(like joysticks).
What I thought of many times would be the potential of a carbon-fibre-body phone.That,along with a scratch resistant glass(like gorilla glass) would finally make the phone much more sturdy and light.Although I don't know how it would fare with heat...
A nice addition would be a small "air pipe" that would go from top to bottom,with some special membrane that will let air go in and out but not water etc.That would help with the aformentioned heat problems!
Also,if it's not too much,a small projector on the back would be super cool.Although I don't quite place that in the mandatory section.
Other than that,the latest,most powerful hardware would suffice!Along with some new-technology battery to power the whole thing of course!
Maybe I'll come back with more,that's just a tiring days rant!

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What I'd love is a dual-core landscape QWERTY. With a 4.3" high-res screen(SAMOLED+ etc) with a nice 5 row keyboard (nicely risen and spaced) with numbers on the top row, with a strong hinge. To be thin and light too. Have the screen cover most of the phone, so not a huge phone. Xenon flash with a nice camera, with good sensor too. There's a lot of other things I'd want too, just can't think atm haha.

Fuel cell battery? or any bigger battery. I'd rather have a thicker phone with more battery life than a thin phone with standard battery life.
Wireless charging, NFC.
Thunderbolt I/O Integration with faster onboard NAND? (SD cards and generally transferring anything over USB is horridly slow atm.)
HDMI out via a dock or a port on the phone? (I'm sure a dual core cpu would be able to handle 1080p)

15" tablet , 3mm thin , so u can cut a turkey in half wit it if ya dont have a knife on you on thanksgiving

nice disign

JWang158 said:
It would be hard to put components inside a seamless device.
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HTC manages to get them into the Desire HD, Mozart and all the other handsets with the unibody aluminium bodies.
I don't see why this would be any different.

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Well, there'd be a battery cover on the design I suggested as well, so it could be done the same way.

Skellyyy said:
What I'd love is a dual-core landscape QWERTY. With a 4.3" high-res screen(SAMOLED+ etc) with a nice 5 row keyboard (nicely risen and spaced) with numbers on the top row, with a strong hinge. To be thin and light too. Have the screen cover most of the phone, so not a huge phone. Xenon flash with a nice camera, with good sensor too. There's a lot of other things I'd want too, just can't think atm haha.
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Def need a qwerty landscape, sorry I just love the clicky and you can type without watching your fingers for no frame of reference.

Project Pluto V2.

Hello Everyone. I am here today to talk to you about Project Pluto.
This is a small update, I have been working with anodized aluminum for a little while and i found that it scratches a bit too often.
That is why I made some design changes, the top and bot of the phone are still dark grey aluminum but the center is composed of the glass in the front and a soft touch material that wraps around the device.
This soft touch material in a bit higher (0.5-1mm) than the aluminum so that when laid on a desk the aluminum does not touch the surface.
The main advantages that this design has is the high durability, better grip and a removable back cover which can lead to a replaceable battery if spares are available.
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Please leave feedback bellow, I want to make something that people will enjoy using.
Disclaimer FCC and CE logos are for demonstration purposes only.

I think this is a great idea maybe you should start a kickstarter page. I would love a phone designed by fans for fans and not just for profit (although i'm sure there would be some)
Also don't forget Micro SD

Nice looking piece of hardware.

Looks like a radio... No offense, just stating what I see.

Dark lord me said:
I think this is a great idea maybe you should start a kickstarter page. I would love a phone designed by fans for fans and not just for profit (although i'm sure there would be some)
Also don't forget Micro SD
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Up to 32 gig SD Card, forgot to put it in the specs info. The plan is to ask for funding on kickstarter after a few prototypes are ready,
Funding is needed to buy the parts for the first batch of phones and also for the FCC approval process if it is needed.
And yes, the goal is for this to be a 5 person project, so profits are going to be low.

Hey if you get a page up and you have a prototype or two I'd be in i love the idea and I would imagine it would be nexus like with updates
And I bet once this becomes farther along you will have a lot of support from on here.
The look of it reminds me of the N9
Also as someone who is right handed having the power button on the left makes it slightly awkward to reach.

z33dev33l said:
Nice looking piece of hardware.
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Thank you. You see something that needs change?
Kailkti said:
Looks like a radio... No offense, just stating what I see.
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In what way? and is that a bad thing? What could be changed for it to be more of your liking?

Dark lord me said:
Hey if you get a page up and you have a prototype or two I'd be in i love the idea and I would imagine it would be nexus like with updates
And I bet once this becomes farther along you will have a lot of support from on here.
The look of it reminds me of the N9
Also as someone who is right handed having the power button on the left makes it slightly awkward to reach.
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When the kickstarter page is up I'll be sure to send you a message,
The design looks a bit n9y and a bit like the old ipod nanos. and some iphone thrown in there.
Also the lock button is on the right, initially the picture of it was supposed to be on top of the "back picture" but it looked weird on Photoshop.
The lock button is on the right, basically the same place the iPhone has it.

I like the phone. Great specs. What is your target date
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My personal change list
-Add a little more room to top and bottom and put on a front facing camera
-Round the edges on the top and bottom as well you don't want when people grip the phone for them to have sharp edges and the bottom corners
Also about the power button
-Ohh ok sorry when i was looking at it it looked reversed
Also what kind of screen? i know the resolution but what kind of material for the screen

cainhunpi said:
Thank you. You see something that needs change?
In what way? and is that a bad thing? What could be changed for it to be more of your liking?
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not at all, I'm not an android user but I would readily donate to this project when the time comes. It is on par with Nokia aesthetically and that says something amazing.

nishanty13 said:
I like the phone. Great specs. What is your target date
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I got a date in mind for the initial prototype.
Dark lord me said:
My personal change list
-Add a little more room to top and bottom and put on a front facing camera
-Round the edges on the top and bottom as well you don't want when people grip the phone for them to have sharp edges and the bottom corners
Also about the power button
-Ohh ok sorry when i was looking at it it looked reversed
Also what kind of screen? i know the resolution but what kind of material for the screen
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Front Facing camera, like NFC can not be added for 2 reasons, thickness. the current one is 11.5mm thick already, and price, the current specs are already quite expensive. a ffc would add another 12 dollars in manufacturing costs. and could not be done with the company we are looking to partner with.
the top and bottom don't feel like hard edges because of the sides are rounded. I've tried many ways to round it but I cannot find a way in which it works well and doesn't look stupid. If you find a way draw it and ill add to the design and see if people like it
The screen is regular amoled with qhd resolution

z33dev33l said:
not at all, I'm not an android user but I would readily donate to this project when the time comes. It is on par with Nokia aesthetically and that says something amazing.
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It doesnt necessarily have to run Android, it is the most supported open source OS.
but the hardware will be open, meaning someone could port meego or tizen to it.
I'll be sure to send you a message when we have the kickstarter project going.

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I got a date in mind for the initial prototype.
Front Facing camera, like NFC can not be added for 2 reasons, thickness. the current one is 11.5mm thick already, and price, the current specs are already quite expensive. a ffc would add another 12 dollars in manufacturing costs. and could not be done with the company we are looking to partner with.
the top and bottom don't feel like hard edges because of the sides are rounded. I've tried many ways to round it but I cannot find a way in which it works well and doesn't look stupid. If you find a way draw it and ill add to the design and see if people like it
The screen is regular amoled with qhd resolution
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Ahh ok well the FFC and NFC aren't necessities but they would be cool yet i can understand where you are coming from it seems like the cost for the phone itself would be close to the selling price. Also good to know that the edges aren't to rough and are slightly rounded.
Is it possible to get a size comparison between this phone and maybe one or two other ones to give us an idea on what the size of it will be
Ps ohhhh i was hoping for amoled

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Ahh ok well the FFC and NFC aren't necessities but they would be cool yet i can understand where you are coming from it seems like the cost for the phone itself would be close to the selling price. Also good to know that the edges aren't to rough and are slightly rounded.
Is it possible to get a size comparison between this phone and maybe one or two other ones to give us an idea on what the size of it will be
Ps ohhhh i was hoping for amoled
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I'll put it next to a iPhone 4 and some other android phone in a bit.
Gonna watch Thor now, when done i'll do that

cainhunpi said:
I'll put it next to a iPhone 4 and some other android phone in a bit.
Gonna watch Thor now, when done i'll do that
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Sweet that sounds like a great idea =) Hope you enjoy the movie

Way to close looking to the N9/Lumia 800

The back reminds be too much of a radio really with how the speaker grill is designed and the bland back. Plus the object protruding out of the top reminds me of an antenna unless that is simply a arrow.
If you are going for a minimalistic style then you've kept on tune. Just simply not my style.
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Kailkti said:
The back reminds be too much of a radio really with how the speaker grill is designed and the bland back. Plus the object protruding out of the top reminds me of an antenna unless that is simply a arrow.
If you are going for a minimalistic style then you've kept on tune. Just simply not my style.
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The grill definitively needs some work. if you see one that you think would look good on this phone please post it. The top thing is an arrow. I lol'ed when you said it was an antenna, ill move it .

Illicit Hero said:
Way to close looking to the N9/Lumia 800
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Really? I actually think it looks more like the ipod nano 2g than the n9
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HTC One L Concept - Render for next HTC 5" Smartphone

Hi everyone, I am new here. In free time I like to make various car & motorcycle renders. Recently I decided to start with gadget renders.
This is my vision how next HTC model should look, presented as One L. According to rumors this phone should feature Full HD 5" screen with following specs similar to One series.
In terms of design, my goal was to make elegant shape that is recognizable as part of HTC One family, but in same time that can handle large screen, surrounding it from all sides.
Here is my concept presented as HTC teaser ad:
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A 5 inch screen is too large to be comfortable to me. I won't be buying one. The 4.3 inch screen seemed slightly too large until I had it in my hand for a few minutes then it felt fine.

I agree with you, 4.3" is perfect size for me too. But, seems that there is a lot of people that need phones like this. IMO future HTC with 5" screen could be very successful.

Milanno said:
I agree with you, 4.3" is perfect size for me too. But, seems that there is a lot of people that need phones like this. IMO future HTC with 5" screen could be very successful.
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Hopefully HTC will be successful as I would like to see more handset manufacturers, but I think they have made a big mistake with the One series by making the battery non-removable and not including an SD slot. Unless they reverse that decision and soon I will probably be looking elsewhere. It is really a shame since they did a great job with the Sensation. I really love it, well built, feels solid with the aluminum case.

This looks slick...
I don't think size of the screen matters as long as overall size of device doesn't increases.
If they can cram 5" into existing size then it would be perfect... just a thought..

amus1c said:
This looks slick...
I don't think size of the screen matters as long as overall size of device doesn't increases.
If they can cram 5" into existing size then it would be perfect... just a thought..
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This. I've been saying this for so long. The argument shouldn't be about display size. It should be about overall phone size. I find my 4.3" Sensation to be the perfect form factor, but if they could fit a 4.7" display in the overall body of a Sensation-sized phone I would buy it in a heartbeat.
The render is beautiful. Thin bezels+large displays are the way for the future of smartphones. People always say this BS about how bezels can't be thinner because you'd accidentally tap the display, but I say BS because when I hold my Sensation I'm never holding any part of the front of the phone. My hand only touches the sides/back. I will jump on small bezel phones the moment they come out.
The render is also noticeably more rectangular than the One X. I wonder if you could do a render of the back? It would be cool to see your own personal touch on that.

Milanno said:
Hi everyone, I am new here. In free time I like to make various car & motorcycle renders. Recently I decided to start with gadget renders.
This is my vision how next HTC model should look, presented as One L. According to rumors this phone should feature Full HD 5" screen with following specs similar to One series.
In terms of design, my goal was to make elegant shape that is recognizable as part of HTC One family, but in same time that can handle large screen, surrounding it from all sides.
Here is my concept presented as HTC teaser ad:
Comments and constructive critiques are more than welcome
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I would buy that ! Almost like I would buy a nexus 7 can you make a render of what you think a HTC one line 7" tab would look like ?
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I don't think 5 inch would be a problem, since screen size is measured diagonally, the screen needs only to be longer, and fill up the entire front face of the phone (like this one)
Nice rendering btw

First of all thanks guys for comments!
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The render is beautiful. Thin bezels+large displays are the way for the future of smartphones. People always say this BS about how bezels can't be thinner because you'd accidentally tap the display, but I say BS because when I hold my Sensation I'm never holding any part of the front of the phone. My hand only touches the sides/back. I will jump on small bezel phones the moment they come out.
The render is also noticeably more rectangular than the One X. I wonder if you could do a render of the back? It would be cool to see your own personal touch on that.
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I agree with you from word to word! I will try to catch free time during day to post render with rear look of the phone.
Pedestrian Man said:
I would buy that ! Almost like I would buy a nexus 7 can you make a render of what you think a HTC one line 7" tab would look like ?
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That is interesting idea. If I catch enough free time I will try to give my vision how next HTC tablet should look.

Update: Rear view of my concept render for HTC One L.

Milanno said:
Update: Rear view of my concept render for HTC One L.
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Nice! What software u render these on? I've done a lot of work with AutoCAD, might have a go at something like this myself.
5" screen tho... I'm not so sure about, I struggle with the One X in my hand, seems phones are getting bigger & bigger all the time, 3 years ago they were going smaller & smaller lol. :silly:

plasmadan said:
Nice! What software u render these on?
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Thanx! I like to combine programs, but in this case I`ve used Photoshop.

Personally, I love the design. Its good looking and I like bigger phones.
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Thanx. I hope we will see something like this from HTC very soon!

According to me, camera should be atleast 12 mp for a phone like this!

Here's a design I did yesterday in AutoCAD, not quite the same look as the One series, but it's just a concept.

plasmadan said:
Here's a design I did yesterday in AutoCAD, not quite the same look as the One series, but it's just a concept.
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Nice!

Vmukund said:
Nice!
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Thanks! I'm working an another design now

plasmadan said:
Here's a design I did yesterday in AutoCAD, not quite the same look as the One series, but it's just a concept.
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Nothing personal m8. You did make an effort to design that but i will never buy such piece with the camera in the middle.......

Milanno said:
Hi everyone, I am new here. In free time I like to make various car & motorcycle renders. Recently I decided to start with gadget renders.
This is my vision how next HTC model should look, presented as One L. According to rumors this phone should feature Full HD 5" screen with following specs similar to One series.
In terms of design, my goal was to make elegant shape that is recognizable as part of HTC One family, but in same time that can handle large screen, surrounding it from all sides.
Here is my concept presented as HTC teaser ad:
Comments and constructive critiques are more than welcome
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I really like the render on the front. I wonder if it's feasible though unless they axed a front facing camera.
The rear looks like a render to me, a little bit flat, especially around the camera area. It looks like there's a power button on the top, but I don't see any volume rocker - it probably would appear on at least one of the sides no?
I really like the design though. It'll be impressive to see if they manage to get a screen to look like that yet fit in all the stuff they want. Without any real bezel it'll be tricky to get in the prox sensor + cameras + notification LED. But that's what they pay engineers for right?

My Nexus 6 concept - What do you think?

Hi,
I created a little concept about the successor of the Nexus 5. Maybe its called Nexus 6 or Nexus 5 (2014).
Rumors say that it will have a 5.5" display so I decided to build this in my concept. Its just a 2D render, not a 3D or something.
I were really amazed that this 5.5" display fits in a body which is just a few millimeters larger than the one of the Nexus 5. I compared the two.
So final question: What do you think about my concept?
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looks nice but a bezel that thin would give you random touches on the side when trying to hold the device

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looks nice but a bezel that thin would give you random touches on the side when trying to hold the device
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Perhaps making the device thicker by a mm or two would prevent the random touches you mention.
Would also mean a larger (higher capacity) battery could be installed.
Though the almost bezel-less design, when used with a protective case/bumper may cause issues with screen edge touches.
k-c

Nice to hear your opinions :thumbup:

For those bezels they might have to move the buttons to the back ala LG G2/3. I like it though.

The bezel is too small, and the fact that the bottom has a different shape to the top really annoys me. Like the speaker grille though.

No bezel barely will mean bigger cases would be overlapping the screen space. Not good. For marks, or using pie or sidebars.

I like it! Never did care for Bezels...they sux's!

Do any of you guys realize and/or think about the implications of razor thin bezels? Disregarding the issue of the digitizer registering touches simply by holding the device, there are physical/engineering issues to consider. The screen has to be held within some type of housing, not just to protect the screen but the rest of the phone itself, and the bezels on your mockup are less than 1 mm thick. Exactly what type of material do you envision the housing to be made of? Even aluminum wouldn't have enough strength at under a single mm thick. Titanium? What do you think that would do to the price of the phone?
So, to achieve bezels like this would require either a significant increase in cost or a significant reduction in durability, and this is on top of the compromise in usability. And for what purpose? Exactly what is gained from having such thin bezels?
Lastly, and not to sound like an ass, but wouldn't it be better to think up something new and/or innovative instead of just marching down road obvious? Seriously... larger screen, thinner bezels? Let me guess, you see it being a 4k resolution screen too... for no other reason than just because.

I'm sure the OP isn't actually designing it.
The makers know what works. And regardless..... Most things point to no more nexus phones anyway. ?

I'm not a graphics designer or somewhat else and I'm not familiar with building phones so that was just a try how I thought it could look.
Nevertheless many thanks for your opinions and comments.
Regards, aprofomo
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KJ said:
Most things point to no more nexus phones anyway. ?
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David Burke from Google officially announced that there will be Nexus phones in the future.

aprofomo said:
I'm not a graphics designer or somewhat else and I'm not familiar with building phones so that was just a try how I thought it could look.
Nevertheless many thanks for your opinions and comments.
Regards, aprofomo
EDIT:
David Burke from Google officially announced that there will be Nexus phones in the future.
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Did you see that come from his lips?
Otherwise just yet another rumor.

KJ said:
Did you see that come from his lips?
Otherwise just yet another rumor.
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http://readwrite.com/2014/06/26/google-nexus-android-silver#awesm=~oIBTmskqNsdnwA

aprofomo said:
I'm not a graphics designer
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Haha
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

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http://readwrite.com/2014/06/26/google-nexus-android-silver#awesm=~oIBTmskqNsdnwA
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I interviewed him too....he said something different.
Just saying....its all rumor til its on googles site, or CNN. Lol

ChrisDDD said:
Do any of you guys realize and/or think about the implications of razor thin bezels? Disregarding the issue of the digitizer registering touches simply by holding the device, there are physical/engineering issues to consider. The screen has to be held within some type of housing, not just to protect the screen but the rest of the phone itself, and the bezels on your mockup are less than 1 mm thick. Exactly what type of material do you envision the housing to be made of? Even aluminum wouldn't have enough strength at under a single mm thick. Titanium? What do you think that would do to the price of the phone?
So, to achieve bezels like this would require either a significant increase in cost or a significant reduction in durability, and this is on top of the compromise in usability. And for what purpose? Exactly what is gained from having such thin bezels?
Lastly, and not to sound like an ass, but wouldn't it be better to think up something new and/or innovative instead of just marching down road obvious? Seriously... larger screen, thinner bezels? Let me guess, you see it being a 4k resolution screen too... for no other reason than just because.
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Chill out man... The kid just gave HIS concept of what he desires in the next nexus phone!!!
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It looks really nice. I would not think twice to buy

Looks like an HTC..i don't like these big screen on the modern smartphone, 5" are the best size for me!

aprofomo said:
Hi,
I created a little concept about the successor of the Nexus 5. Maybe its called Nexus 6 or Nexus 5 (2014).
Rumors say that it will have a 5.5" display so I decided to build this in my concept. Its just a 2D render, not a 3D or something.
I were really amazed that this 5.5" display fits in a body which is just a few millimeters larger than the one of the Nexus 5. I compared the two.
So final question: What do you think about my concept?
Pictures:
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Who would you like that fabricate

MyDarkThrone said:
Who would you like that fabricate
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Maybe HTC or LG again,l don't know
but please no Samsung