Showing posts with label Concept. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Concept. Show all posts

iWatch Apple Maps Concept Video

If you’ve wondered how the iWatch and Apple Maps could connect to help you get around, a new iWatch concept offers a glimpse at how the most important information from the iPhone could end up on your wrist.
The iWatch is an Apple watch that is rumored as in testing and in the works at Apple with one source claiming Apple has over 100 people working on a smartwatch. The rumored iWatch would connect to the iPhone to allow access to important information like notifications, control of music and access to maps.
Tim Cook stated that he finds wearables “incredibly interesting during an interview earlier this week, calling them a “profound” opportunity. While Cook did not mention the iWatch or go into details, one of the reasons we think he is so interested in this is because of opportunities to bring information to your wrist when you need it. That’s what this iWatch and Apple Maps concept does.

iWatch Concept Maps Video

A new iWatch concept from Martin Hajek takes his classic looking iWatch concept a step further showing off how Apple Maps and an Apple smartwatch could connect.

In the iWatch and Apple Maps concept we get a look at how Apple Maps and the iPhone could connect to an Apple watch. While walking around it doesn’t always make sense to hold the iPhone out where someone could grab it and with full hands it can be tough to juggle an iPhone for walking directions. With an iWatch, the directions and an arrow showing the way to go could appear on the watch face.
In this concept we see a small area to tap, presumably for a list of directions, and a compass that would orient the iWatch with the direction a user is facing.
iWatch concept shows how Apple Maps could look on an iWatch.
iWatch concept shows how Apple Maps could look on an iWatch.
This is just one way the rumored iWatch could connect to the iPhone to deliver important information. Other possible iWatch features would include access to notifications, possibly with a smaller version of the Notification Center and a PassBook like feature that shows a boarding pass or a Starbucks card. While testing an early smartwatch, the ability to receive alerts for calls and texts as well as pay for a drink at Starbucks were impressive.

While there are expectations for an iWatch release later this year, an Apple analyst with a good track record predicts a later arrival. KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims the iWatch won’t make it to markets until late 2014, which is also when we expect to see the iPhone 6.

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Apple’s iPad inspires new transparent concept

Apple’s iPad inspires new transparent concept
Of course there are a host of technological challenges to contend with before concepts like this become reality, but does anyone really doubt these types of products are in our future?

Digital artist Ricardo Afonso sees the iPad evolving its clean profile into something even cleaner. So clean, it is clear. Such a form factor lends itself to fitting into any occasion or any décor. Afonso did not get too flamboyant with his concept, knowing that it will be some time before we break the barriers of size for micro circuits, processors, and batteries as well as most material’s rather inconvenient insistence on being opaque in nature.

The concept also lends itself to how such products might be styled. There is only so much you can do with a slab of glass, so trim becomes the accent for people to notice. The top and bottom treatments allow for form and function. Add a few different colors and the rest is up to what can be done with the panel and display.

Afonso makes his CGI talent perform a virtual tour (video below) of what could lie ahead for the iPad, or any handheld device for that matter. You will notice that he kept the familiar iOS appearance so that anyone could recognize it for what it is, but we certainly hope that by the time such technology is viable, iOS will have undergone a healthy revision in its user experience, perhaps more than once.

sources: Ricardo Afonso via iClarified
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iPhone SJ: The Gorgeous Mockup Inspired by Steve Jobs

Over the last few days there has been plenty of talk regarding the next generation iPad, but there seem to be only whispers about the next generation iPhone. As far as the design of the next iPhone, we don’t have much more than leaked iPhone 5 cases that appeared online prior to the iPhone 4S launch. While the leaked iPhone 5 cases seem to resemble the iPad 2, s

ome people have a very different idea of what the next generation iPhone could look like.

Designer Antonio De Rosa has created this beautiful iPhone SJ mockup, which he states is inspired by Steve Jobs.

Totally glass capacitive screen on a polycarbonate lightweight body. New design inspired by Steve Jobs, new core with A6 dual core processor, new camera 10 Mpx (sic). A classic reinvented. Again.

I think this is a gorgeous vision of what the next iPhone could look like, but it seems unlikely to me. If Apple’s launch-redesign-upgrade-redesign-upgrade way of dishing out iDevices has taught us anything, it’s pretty much a given that the next iPhone will feature a new quad-core processor and if we’re lucky, a 10-megapixel camera. The polycarbonate back in De Rosa’s design just looks too similar to the current iPhone models to be considered a redesign, in my opinion. Departing from the glass back of the iPhone 4/4S would be a necessary change to be considered new (think: iPhone 3GS to iPhone 4) and would give the iPhone a look like that of the iPad 2. Other than that, there isn’t much to fuel the fire of speculation.

What do you think of this design? Would you like the next iPhone to be even thinner than the iPhone 4S? Do you think glass or metal would be better for the back? Be sure to let us know in the comments!

This article originally published at AppAdvice
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