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Nexus Prime Concept Design That Made Us Drool Like Pavlov’s Dog

by on September 14, 2011 7:35 am
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If the last “leaked” image of the Nexus Prime didn’t make you giggle, here’s a new set of concept design images that could make you forget your name or the Android phone that’s currently haunting your mind right now.

These photos are not leaks for how the Nexus Prime actually looks like. Instead, these are rendered images of an artist’s concept of what the Nexus Prime ought to look like–or might look like. Barring any other upcoming concept designs more beautiful than these, I personally also want the Nexus Prime to look like this.

Federico Ciccarese, the artistic genius behind CiccareseDesign, is responsible for these images. He calls the device the Google Nexus Third Generation.

And, imagine this beautiful piece of technology with the following rumored powerful innards and specs:

  • Android 2.4/4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (with its famed 180% increase in performance over Android 3.x Honeycomb)
  • 4.65-inch (other sources say 4.5-inch) Super AMOLED Plus (or even HD Super AMOLED) touchscreen
  • Texas Instruments OMAP 4470 (or 4460) dual-core processor clocked anywhere between 1.5 GHz and 1.8 GHz
  • 1280×720 HD display resolution
  • at least 1.0 GB of RAM
  • at least 32 GB of internal storage
  • 8.8 millimeters thin
  • no carrier- or manufacturer-imposed bloatware–only “pure Google” experience

Here are two more images, both of which show the slightly curved (concave) middle portion of the phone’s body:


And, this third one shows the camera and the metallic chrome Google logo embossed/stamped on the back cover:

The rendered images show what appears to be a plastic back cover, though. I’m not sure whether that would make the phone more prone to slipping from one’s grasp. Samsung, quite known for plasticky handsets, has been rumored to produce the Nexus Prime.

If the Nexus Prime looked like this, and if it came with the above-listed rumored internals and specs, could you say “Abandon all hope [for another Android phone], ye who enter [into the enchanting world of the Nexus Prime]“?

Image credit: Federico Ciccarese (CiccareseDesign)

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  • Byock

    Nexus 10 32GB is $499, not $399. :)

  • Jwhap

    I have a Xoom, Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 7 and a Nexus Q……. guess I will be purchasing a nexus again someday…… Hopefully LTE enabled, hint Google!

  • http://www.thinkingbrian.com/ ThinkingBrian

    While I have no plans on buying anymore Android devices until sometime in late 2014, may be 2015, there is a good reason for this because I currently own both a Samsung Galaxy Nexus and a Google Nexus 7 that I bought in last 2012. I love both of these Nexus devices and use them daily. I bought them because their both high-end devices and getting the latest version of Android which right now is Android 4.2.1 is important to me for some reason.

    The main selling feature has to be stock/pure vanilla Android, timely updates and their high-end devices. In other words, they meet my needs. Of course the downside use to be storage, but I have found a way around that. I have a Wi-Drive for streaming video and music over WiFi and just yesterday I started using an USB OTG cable, a SD card reader or USB flash drive and the Nexus Media Importer App to add more storage in read only to watch movies, TV shows, listen to music and more.

    These are really good devices and hopefully Google keeps making them for years to come.

  • emjoa

    I’ve now owned the nexus s, Galaxy S II X, nexus 7 and the Galaxy Note 2. I’d have to say that vanilla Android and Android based devices both have their good and bad points. Standardization has its advantages as well but always at the cost of faster advancements and creativity. It will be interesting watching how this all unfolds over the next few years, that is for sure. I plan on going nexus s when it’s time to replace this Note and I may leapfrog like that for a while yet to keep comparing and exploring the Android world.

  • pere

    i just think that google should make their own factory for making nexus devices, with own processors, own displays and own engineers to make their own hi-end features, so i think in that way google would blow out apple and become best smart company.

    • http://twitter.com/piyushr21 Piyush

      They already have that and it’s name is Motorola

    • http://twitter.com/matter37 Matthew

      Google is not a hardware company though. It is not how they work, that is why all of their devices are manufactured by other companies.

  • goodwin

    what is a nexus device ?

    a phone or tablet from google with limited storage and expansion, that will force you to use google drive :)

    • http://twitter.com/matter37 Matthew

      Limited? That is relative, if you are a game and have every damned app in the world on your device along with shit foock tons of music and videos, then yeah it is limiting, but for someone who knows how to manage stuff, it barely presents a problem.

      And integrating into the cloud is a good thing, because eventually, most data will be held in the cloud, and there is really nothing we can do about it, other than adapt to it.

      • AppleSucksForLife

        How about those people without internet all the time

        • http://twitter.com/matter37 Matthew

          Then don’t buy it. Duh. There are still plenty of other options.

  • Altaykai Yamada

    The Asians do all the dirty work in the background as usual.

    • vikas20011

      what are u trying to say exactly about the phone??

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