This
cell phone concept is not necessarily made to last — but then again neither is our mindset when it comes to gadgets.
Keep in mind that as Samsung approaches the tenth iteration of its flagship smartphone series next year that there's the potential of the
foldable phone concept materializing that same year.
With Google seemingly turning its back on the whole affordable flagship
phone concept with the Nexus 6, it appears you have to look to China for your Android bargains these days.
As we get closer and closer to a world with foldable smartphones, patents have been discovered for two
folding phone concepts LG is working on.
Reports reveal that LG is ditching the modular
phone concept in the LG G6 due to its predecessor's poor market performance.
For example, Games Investor analyst Nick Gibson isn't so keen, saying: «With PSP2 SDKs currently being deployed to developers and PSP still selling at surprisingly robust levels, the
PlayStation Phone concept is something of an enigma.
When I first saw this
grass phone concept pop up on Yanko Design's website, I did a half - scoff, a «yeah, sure,» and clicked the red X on the page tab.
The solar
powered phone concept attempts to get users to realize how much energy goes into each electronic component of a phone - and
While Apple pioneered the all -
screen phone concept with the first iPhone, Samsung and other companies have recently pushed it further, trimming the frame around the display so much that the forehead and chin on the new Galaxy S8 are barely there.
While we're now well into the era of curved screen smartphones, thanks to hits like Samsung's Galaxy Edge devices, Taiwanese manufacturer AUO has raised the bar with its new
flexible phone concept.
The tech industry witnessed true innovation when Vivo showed - off their
Apex phone concept with a camera which hides when not in use and a bezel-less display.
The
interchangeable phone concept has been shelved in order to streamline the company's hardware strategy, it is claimed.The software giant has been expected to ship development... Read more
Project Ara, the ambitious
modular phone concept the product of Google's Advanced Technology and Project division, has been shelved indefinitely.
New details recently emerged about Samsung's «Galaxy X» foldable phone, and following this, new patents have been discovered for two
folding phone concepts that LG has in the works.
The Fujitsu dual screen tablet and
phone concept is reminds the Kyocera Echo, but comes in different... Read more...
And while it's not difficult for a talented marketing department to change the thinking of «normies» to accommodate new and exotic notions, it's tough to see the masses actually getting excited enough about the modular
phone concept to sell enough units to change the world in the way Motorola (or at least Hakkens) wants to.
Ara will still be neat, and we'll definitely be interested to see a final product, but we should be just as eager for a second version of LG's modular
phone concept.
And LG, which mass - produces televisions with bendable displays, has patented at least two foldable
phone concepts.
Ara was
a phone concept that allowed users to hot - swap core hardware components like the camera and battery, and was a thorough imagining of the long - desired modular phone.
Project Ara was one of the most comprehensive modular
phone concepts we had seen and while Google displayed a working prototype at its I / O event back in May, the search engine giant had to let it go, choosing to focus on other hardware projects.
«X» as in «Galaxy X,» the tenth release in the series following this year's Galaxy S9, not necessarily the foldable
phone concept we've been wrapping our heads around using the name «Galaxy X» — though that device is targeted for a 2019 release.
Its Moto Z and Moto Mods platform were the most practical take on the modular
phone concept, but they didn't exactly ignite the smartphone world.
Motorola's flagship phone, along with the Moto Z family, supports Moto Mods, attachable peripherals that are somewhat similar to the modular
phone concept.
Samsung's foldable
phone concepts have been around for years at trade shows, so we already knew the South Korean giant has been working on such devices — in fact, Samsung is currently deciding whether to go forward with a 2017 launch for a folding smartphone.
These are essentially Motorola's somewhat similar answer to the modular
phone concept, where smartphone components can be added, built on, swapped out or modified depending on the user's preferences and needs.
On Wednesday, after a long silence, Google announced something that will excite technophiles awaiting news about its modular
phone concept.
The PadFone is a tablet /
phone concept — there are two devices the phone and the pad.