User Loki Bartleby (Michael Schröder) from Deviantart shows us his latest creation, a Nokia Lumia concept, that relies on aluminum instead of the usual polycarbonate. There are some references in this design to the good old N8, as you may quickly spot in the picture below. Meet the Nokia Lumia M, where “M” stands for metal most likely. The handset comes with a 4.3 inch 720p display and measures 9 mm in thickness and 61 mm in length, looking like quite a long phone. Nokia Lumia M is meant to be a midrange phone, so I imagine it runs Windows Phone 8 on top of a Snapdragon S4 dual core processor, with 1 GB of RAM. It also uses PureMotion technology, since that’s written on the screen and I expect the camera at the back to be either an 8 MP or 12 MP sensor, most likely without Pureview involvement.
The camera button and On/Off button are on one side, while the volume button is on the other. At the bottom we find the microUSB port, speakers and some capacitive buttons below the display. There’s also a front camera above the screen and I bet that this metallic Nokia phone feels good in the user’s hand and doesn’t slip as much as the glossy new Lumias would. So, how much do you fancy this Nokia design compared to the modern ones?

We’ve been hearing a lot about a HTC 5 inch phablet, a Galaxy Note rival, so considering there’s no real device to look at, a concept will do. It’s dubbed HTC One Z and it’s created by Tyler Lehmann, who also did a promo video of the device, that you can watch below. HTC One Z is a 5 inch 720p phablet with a quad core CPU.
One Z incorporates a quad core Tegra 3 processor clocked at 1.8 GHz and other features include a 2800 mAh non removable battery, 2 GB of RAM and an anodized aluminum and polycarbonate case. There’s a stylus slot at the bottom and inside it we find a pen with Wacom technology. The HTC stylus, probably a new generation of Scribe pen has a button that provides extra functionality when pressed. The 5 inch device actually looks pretty slick and the back camera is pretty discrete.
I like the idea of an edge to edge display here and my only objection is that the capacitive buttons are too close to the HTC logo at the bottom. This is like a stylized version of HTC One X and I guess that it has an 8 megapixel camera, if I can speculate and Beats Audio technology on board. Will HTC One Z become a reality one day? Maybe it will, but I have a feeling it won’t be like anything we imagined…