Android Phones
Independent HTC design concept showcases a smartphone I’d actually buy
July 12, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka
Android Phones
We occasionally receive “tips” about new phones that turn out to be nothing more than Photoshop renders created by fans. This is one occasion that I wish those renders were real because I’d actually consider buying this product.
Andrew Kim is a designer who knows his way around a pencil and Photoshop. Dissatisfied with the lack of “harmony between UI and hardware design” in today’s smartphone, he decided to create the HTC 1, a premium phone concept that classes up Android and differentiates the phone from mainstream products. There are a couple of things wrong – such as the absence of home/back/menu buttons – but it’s pretty slick to imagine this as a real device.
The HTC 1 concept is a slim, rectangular design inspired by Leica cameras, clean lines favored by modern designers, timepieces, and elements from HTC’s current range of products. It’s just fantasy, but I hope HTC or some other phone company writes Kim a check so we can see something like this in a few years. Here are a few slides from Kim’s concept. Be sure to view the full gallery and read more about the concept on his website.
Via [SlashGear, thanks Rique!]
MAKE THIS PHONE
Um, yes please! I would buy this in a heart beat. HTC needs at least one model to compete with the aesthetics of the iPhone and this should be it!
I want this phone with a 5 row keyboard and trackball and all those other buttons, please.
hmmm … looks like a bathroom lamp … no, looks like a bathroom lamp in the 80's …
but the GUI looks good.
HTC , give this guy a job!
Very nice design! It's amazing that these companies can't come up with good looking phones.
I agree with Andy G, give the guy a job. Visually it’s stunning and I would be more than happy to have this in my bag.