Designer Ben Ling proposes a very slight update to the Galaxy Note II, that is supposed to hit the USA stores soon. He imagined the Samsung Galaxy Note II Plus, a device that keeps about 80% of the specs of the predecessor and adds minor changes. One of them is replacing the physical Home button with a touch one and another is making the device less elongated, from what I can see.

We’re still dealing with a 5.5 inch phablet with a Super AMOLED TFT display and Corning Gorilla Glass 2 protection. The screen here supports a 720p resolution and on board we find a quad core 1.7 GHz Exynos 4412 processor, as well as a Mali 400 MP GPU. The OS of choice is Android 4.1.1. Jelly Bean with the promise of updating to Android 4.2 ASAP. TouchWiz is applied on top of the OS and at the back of the device we find a 12 megapixel camera with LED flash and 16x digital zoom.

The camera is capable of 1080p HD video recording and there’s also a front 2 megapixel camera, with 1080p capture as well. Inside the phablet we find a Li-Ion 3300 mAh battery and other features available include 16/32/64 GB of storage, 2 GB of RAM, NFC and Bluetooth 4.0. The S Pen stylus is kept and the thickness of the device is 9.3 mm. Would you buy a Note II with these small upgrades?

The Nexus 10 tablet has been in the rumors for a while now and leaks are becoming more and more detailed. Some specs have leaked online and before we get a press picture of the device there are some mockups of the 10 inch Nexus tablet I’d like to show you. They’re made by Deviantart user CapuchinoMedia, who imagined the fresh family of Nexus devices.

At the bottom we have the LG Nexus 4, the smallest of the gang, then the Nexus 7 and finally the Nexus 10, that seems to adopt the same industrial design as the Nexus 7. From what I’ve heard the new model will be made by Samsung and it may end up looking like the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 and a bit like the Galaxy Note 10.1. Rumored specs include a dual core Cortex A15 processor, 2 GB of RAM, 16 GB of storage and a crazy good 2560 x 1600 pixel resolution, courtesy of Samsung technology.

At the back there should be a 5 megapixel camera and other usual features include NFC, WiFi, dual speakers at the front and a front facing camera. The OS here will most likely be Android 4.2, just like on the LG Nexus 4. Hopefully the model will be reasonably priced, although that’s pretty hard with such strong hardware. Tomorrow we’ll be back with some leaked pics of the Nexus 10 tablet, but till then you have these mockups. Do you like them?

Who other than Bob Freking can imagine the future flagship Samsung tablet? The designer claims that the Galaxy Note isn’t for everyone and nor is the Galaxy Note 10.1. So, this is where the Galaxy Tab III comes in, born from the need of the people to get the pure Galaxy Tab experience, without stylus action and all that… Here’s the device, with a pebble blue case:

This Samsung Galaxy Tab concept tablet features a 10.1 inch display with a 2560 x 1440 pixel resolution, a panel that Sammy has been rumored to be making for a while now. Inside we find a Cortex A15 Exynos 5 processor made by Samsung itself and promoted as the most potent CPU on the market, which is true. Gorilla Glass II is used here and the Galaxy S III Pebble Blue case, but in a bigger version. 2 GB of RAM, 32 GB of storage and expandable memory complete the picture.

TouchWiz Nature UX is applied on top of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and the device features a combo of 8 megapixel back camera and 1.9 MP cam at the front. The selling point of the device is the weight and waistline, only 500 grams and 8 mm respectively, making this one of the lightest and thinnest tablets ever. The cool thing is that the Galaxy Tab III is not made of plastic but rather made using super light aircraft metal like the Series 9 laptop line. Another appealing feature is the 15,000 mAh battery on board. Samsung is also supposed to be promising to keep the software update to date this time via OTA… Fancy this tablet?

We have heard of pens being phones before, but the idea of pulling a phone’s flexible display from a pen seems new, or is it? Let’s have a look at this Sony PlayStation concept phone and remember it. Anyway, today we have a new step in design evolution, the Samsung ONE, created by Yejin Jeon. This handset is basically a flexible display mobile phone hidden inside an elegant, white pen.

The Samsung concept relies on cloud computing and involves a wide screen display that comes out of the pen. This screen is a 6 inch bendable sheet and at the edge of the pen we also have an embedded camera. You can make ONE stand in order to use the 6 inches of screen estate to their full extent. When the display is inside the pen there’s a small touchscreen on the side of the pen, as shown in the image below. This one allows you to control the device and has the role of showing notifications, signal, battery and more.

There’s a speaker at the edge of the device and a lock at the other. The brilliant thing about this device is that you can pull part of the flexible screen of the ONE and use it as a camera viewfinder when you turn the handset’s camera on, that’s very, very cool. I say that such a product is doable with today’s technology, but it could end up being much thicker. This design is part of the iF Design Talents competition and I already give it a big thumbs up.

Aneek from Sri Lanka sent us his idea of a concept phone, the Samsung Captivate X, shown below. We’re dealing here with the follow-up of the Samsung Captivate, so we might as well call it the Captivate 2. It features a 4.3 inch screen and it enhances the camera, processor and screen of the predecessor.

Samsung Captive X is Aneek’s dream phone and it comes with a 4.3 inch 1280 x 720 pixel display, a 1.5 GHz dual core Amlogic CPU and an 8 megapixel camera at the back with 1080p capture. There’s also a 2MP front camera with videocall support. Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is the OS of choice here and other specs include 1.5GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage and an 8.5mm thick chassis. Samsung Captivate X has 4 capacitive buttons below the display, in spite of Android 4.0+ devices usually having 3.

This model has a pretty interesting design, with a curved lower side and a rectangular case on all the other edges. The upper part of the phone has a slight BlackBerry feeling to it, don’t you think?