Galaxy Nexus 2 concept is well-designed and ridiculous
Galaxy Nexus 2 concept is well-designed and ridiculous
We
see a lot of concept devices roll through all of the time. The vast
majority of concept renders are for rumored Apple products, but there
will be the occasionalconcept of a BlackBerry device, or even an official concept from Nokia.
One thing that we don't see too often are concept renders for Google
Nexus devices. Sure, we'll see the occasional render designed to fool
people into thinking it's a leak of the real product, but that's not
quite the same as a concept. Today, we saw a pretty interesting concept
render for what would be a Samsung Galaxy Nexus 2.
The concept was designed by Killu-Chan, and shows a Samsung-made Nexus
phone that would feature a 5" display at 720p resolution covered in
Gorilla Glass 2. Inside, the concept calls for 32GB of storage, 42Mbps
HSPA+, Bluetooth 4.0, microUSB
2.0 with MHL and USB on the go. The ridiculous part is that the concept
also calls for 8GB of RAM, which we're really hoping is just a typo,
because if that's really an expected feature of the designer, we may
just have to throw out the entire idea. Rounding out the internals would
be a 2GHz quad-core Tegra 3 and a 3200 mAh battery.
All of that sounds nice and
dreamy, some even seems reasonable. The design itself uses a teardrop
shape that is expected to be part of the iPhone 5 design. The other
major part of the design is that it has no bezel on the sides of the
screen. This is a fairly common design point, but it's one that we don't
really expect to take off any time soon. It's a good idea to shrink the
side bezel in order to fit a larger screen, but to take away the bezel
all-together would cause too many issues with accidental touches.
Overall, it looks like a pretty
interesting concept, but not one that we're really expecting or would
even be too excited about. It looks sort of like a smoothed-out DROID X.
It's never a good sign when a concept design is more interesting for
its spec sheet than the design itself. What do you think? Are we being
too hard on it?
