A couple of days ago, the interwebs were filled with an image showing an Eee PC running the famous Google Android OS. Now, it turns out that Asus is not only planning an Android handset for 2009, but also an Eee phone.

Believe it or not, this device will also run Android and this is more than gibberish talk, as Johnny Shih, Asus’ CEO made these announcements.

Keep your eyes peeled for info surfacing during CES 2009, as Asus might have a prototype ready, since they’ve been slowing down on Eee PC launches lately. Can anyone imagine how an Eee Phone would look like? Mail your ideas at concept.phones@gmail.com

Few concept phones have actually reached the stage of being widely known as the handset that’s “almost available”. Everyone’s heard about them, but the real devices are nowhere to be seen. Sadly, this is also the case of Asus Aura, designed by Egy Studio and one of the finest pieces of hardware I’ve ever seen.

The Aura is a slider with a QWERTY keyboard and a 3.9″ touchscreen that would even make the iPhone jealous. There’s also a 2 megapixel camera in there, a microSD memory card slot and the usual GSM/UMTS/HSDPA/Wi-Fi support and Bluetooth connectivity. All of this specs are hidden by a 97 x 49 x 6 (!!) mm body…

Well, what can we say? Asus, please ditch that Eee PC series and start making this beauty! We’ll buy it!

The Asus KarE phone is a conceptual design that explores the future of devices created for “kids and elderly people”. As you see in the images next to the handset created by Markus Wierzoch, it makes a perfect messaging phone and a great console replacement for those who got tired of their Nintendo DS or PSP.

Asus KarE resembles a console more than a normal phone, while the keypad has something “Spider-man-esque” about it, don’t ask me, I’ve just created that word. Its front controls are clearly designed for gaming, while the sliding keypad (or keypads) make it perfect for a nice afternoon of texting with your loved one.

There’s also a camera at the back of this curved device, that looks like something Sega would come up with.

Erica Yusim sent us pictures of what seems to be a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 render, a pretty well thought device, that evolves from the idea of the two predecessors. First of all, it seems to have an edge to edge screen, then a more elegant Home button and then a bigger diagonal.

It also has a more squared format, leaving behind the rounded design of the Galaxy S III and Note II. Samsung Galaxy Note 3 features a 5.8 inch FHD Super AMOLED screen, a bigLITTLE processor, which means we have both a 2 GHz quad core processor (Cortex A15) and a quad core Cortex A7 1.4 GHz CPU. Basically, we’re dealing with an 8 core phablet, with 3GB of RAM, 32 to 128 GB of ROM and a microSDXC storage of up to 128 GB as well.

Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie is chosen here and a 4000 mAh battery powers up the device. At the back there’s a 13 megapixel camera, while upfront we use a 3 MP webcam. The whole thing measures 8.9 mm in thickness and obviously involves a brand new S Pen generation. From the comparison pics in this article, you can see that the Note 3 combines elements from the Note 1 and Note II, taking more from the first generation, if you ask me. I actually prefer a more rectangular design compared to the rounded one…

We’ve seen many Samsung Galaxy S4 concepts on this site, but the idea of an S4 Mini is fresh and new. Ben Ling imagined both, with the result being the image below. We’re dealing with a 5 inch S4, nothing unpredictable, a model with a Full HD Super AMOLED Plus TFT display, with Gorilla Glass 2 protection.

The Galaxy S4 Mini is a 4.55 inch smartphone, also with a Super AMOLED TFT screen, but a HD one. TouchWiz UI is present on both and both support multitouch with up to 10 fingers. The bigger S4 uses a quad core 1.9 GHz CPU, while the smaller one goes down to 1.5 GHz. At the back we have a 13 megapixel camera with LED flash and an 8 megapixel shooter respectively, both with 16x digital zoom and 1080p video recording. Other specs include Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, 2 GB of RAM, NFC, 16/32/64 GB of storage.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 specs include a Li-Ion 2500 mAh battery, while the S4 Mini adopts a Li-Ion 2100 mAh one. Finally we get LTE and a waistline of 9.1 mm and 8.9 mm respectively. The device is a bit less rounded than the S3 and features totally capacitive buttons below the screen, so Samsung has supposedly given up the physical Home button. Doable or not?