Since iPhone concepts seem to have vanished now that the iPhone 4 was announced, let’s focus a bit on iPod designs. One such nifty initiative comes from José Ignacio Martínez, who created the very interesting iPod Shuffle2020, the portable music player of the year 2020. What’s surprising about this unit is that it comes with unlimited music and battery capacity.
Antonio De Rosa has created a couple of pretty interesting iPhone concepts before, but now he’s trying something new: an Apple watch. The iWatch design is pictured below and it comes with an alumium body, WiFi support and Bluetooth among others.
There’s also a RSS Reader on board, 16GB of internal memory, a weather forecast system and the possibility of connecting the watch with the iPad or iPhone via WiFi. Probably the most appealing feature of the Apple watch concept is the LCD projector it incorporates, able to show images (hopefully video, too) anytime and anywhere.
Great idea and hopefully we’ll see it turned into reality some day…
Si une iPad ne suffit pas, alors Apple préparerait une version «nano» de sa tablette ! C’est du moins ce que pronostique la rumeur, qui parle d’une version dotées d’un écran de 5 à 7 pouces pour un tarif de 400$ : parfait pour aller titiller les tablettes concurrentes sur ce segment tarifaire… La sortie de cette iPad nano serait prévue pour début 2011. Digitimes nous indique également que la Slate d’HP sortira elle cet été et serait fabriquée par Inventec.
If you’ve been living under a rock over the past week, you might not be familiar with the fact that an Apple employee, named Gray Powell. He had a couple of beers in the Gourmet Haus Staudt pub, in Redwood City and forgot his iPhone 4G prototype in the bar. The unit was found by a mystery person, hidden inside an iPhone 3GS case and handed over to Gizmodo, for $5000.
What followed is the logical tear down of the device, plus its analysis and tons of photos and videos shown by Gizmodo. Next, came a letter from Apple, requesting the unit back. What you should know about the real iPhone 4G prototype is that it comes with a flattened design, looking very much like some previous iPhone concepts you’ve seen on our site.
Also, the supposed iPhone HD comes with a front-facing videochat camera, an improved camera at the back (it has a bigger lens than the one on the 3GS), a camera flash, a micro SIM slot and an improved display. The latter is a tad smaller, but apparently its resolution is better, although this has yet to be proved.
The phone ran iPhone OS 4.0, but somehow, Apple managed to remotely kill the unit, after finding out that it has leaked. We also have to mention that the iPhone 4G prototype features a secondary mic for noise cancellation, placed at the top, next to the headphone jack. The volume buttons are now split and they, together with the power and mute buttons are all metallic.
The back of the handset is entirely flat, as you can see and we’re guessing it’s made of glass/ceramic or maybe shiny plastic, in order to allow the signal to get the max reception. There’s an aluminum border going around the outside of the phone and we have to mention that the unit is 3 grams heavier and its battery is 16% larger than the one of the 3GS.
Gizmodo’s dissection of the handset showed that the battery takes about 50% of the entire case space and the components inside are very tiny and fit perfectly in their place, so there’s no room for extras. No info on the processor or the main board, as it was sealed by Apple and tearing that part open would have damaged the handset.
Don’t forget to have a look at the video at the end of the article, in order to see the handset live and find out some of its features. What would you have done differently, as far as the design of the prototype is concerned?
Here’s yet another iPhone 4G concept, this time looking hotter than ever and created by iSpazio user Seraphan. This glossy piece of work comes with a bigger display than current iPhone models, plus iPhone OS 4.0, apparently.
There’s also a front 2 megapixel videocall camera on board, an SD card one side and the usual buttons for volume and silencing on the other side. At the back you’ll find a 5 megapixel camera sensor with flash and the memory is available in 32 or 64GB versions.
The interface on this iPhone 4G also seems to include a separate section used like some sort of dashboard, showing weather and features like emails, calendar and more. Does the UI borrow a bit from TouchFLO 3D/ HTC Sense, or is it just me?
