New iPhone 5 concept: Liquidmetal, pico-projector and super-slim

ADR Studios, the designers behind a whole host of concepts. Some awesome, others completely insane, but all show an incredible amount of imagination and attention to detail. The most recent one, dubbed “iPhone+”, packs in an incredible number of features that we’ll never, ever see on an iPhone. Feast your eyes on this gallery:

Although I’m not keen on the look, it certainly follows in the direction of the current smartphone market: really slim and square with a massive, dominating display. The wish-list of supposed features includes:

  • Liquidmetal Body: thermoformed on a single plane, no junctions needed;
  • Screen with double alkali-aluminosilicate sheet glass;
  • 4.3″ Retina Display with In-Cell technology;
  • A6 Quad Core processor;
  • Rear Camera: 10.0 Megapixel, f/2.4, 1080p Full HD video at 30 frame/s;
  • Front Camera: 2.0 Megapixel (VGA), 480p VGA video at 30 frame/s;
  • Rear motion sensor;
  • Top pico-projector to beam photos and videos on any surfaces;
  • Slim design for an edge-to-edge thinner profile;
  • New slim-dock connector;
  • Fully Capacitive Home Button

As we read a few weeks ago, Liquidmetal is nowhere near ready to be used for mass-scale product manufacture. There was also some pretty solid speculation recently that Apple won’t want to go over 4-inches for the display size, and cramming a projector in to such a thin profile is bordering on insane. It’s fair to say, we’re not going to see anything like this come October when Cook&Co finally uncover the next generation iPhone. That said, I still like looking at concepts.

What do you think of this one? What do you like about it? What don’t you like? Comment below or tweet me: @TiP_Cam.

Via: ADR Studios

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MaeganBabcock 11 pts

Looks good to me except for the capacitive home button.  I think it should remain a physical button.

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RobertBloom 5 pts

In some ways I think it looks beautiful but in others I don't. 

 

The first thing that stood out to me: the offcentered screen. I don't think Apple chose a centered screen on the previous phones arbitrarily. It has a proportion, a balance (this is carried through the rest of the phone. All the corners are the same size, all the sides are) so that whatever orientation you're holding it in, it is the same in the opposite orientation.

 

The second thing is the corners. I don't think the iPhone 4/4S feel quite as good in the hand as the previous iPhones, but this concept looks like it wouldn't feel nearly as good as the current gen. I'm not going to make some ridiculous exaggeration like it would cut into your hand, but the sharper corners would affect how the phone feels when you're holding it, and I think it would feel worse. Along these lines, if the back is going to be tapered or curved at all, rather than having the slight arc running through it, I would much rather it be like the current iPod or the previous iPhones (except much slimmer of course) where all of the corners are curved to the back but the center of the back is flat. Again, for the way it feels in the hands. This is something you almost always have in your hands when you're using it. And if you think this is too small or unimportant of a detail, remember that details are one of the things Apple excels at.

 

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