Remember the Nokia N95 with its dual slider design?
When you slide it down it would reveal the media playback buttons at the top
and when you slide it up you get access to the keypad. That seems to be the
inspiration behind these ASUS 5G slider concept phones.
Shared on Twitter by Evan Blass (@evleaks) but made
by a former designer that worked on the Zenfone 5, the images show two
different concept phones with a dual slider design and near bezel-less
displays. The first concept phone slides downwards to reveal dual front-facing
cameras which are flanked by a long strip of LED flash on each side for
brighter selfies. Slide the phone upwards and you are greeted by a long grille
housing Harman Kardon speaker(s).
On the rear, the first concept phone is shown to
have dual cameras positioned close to the top and arranged horizontally. The
cameras are flanked on the left by an LED flash. There is no fingerprint
scanner on the back which means there is probably one under the display. The phone has its power button
and volume rocker on the right while the left is home to the SIM tray. There
are two variants – black and another with a white back and a black front half.
The second set of concept renders switches up the
design a bit. You still have dual front-facing cameras but they are now
separated and each has its own LED flash. Slide the phone up and gone is
the speaker from the first one but what appears to be a smaller touch display.
The screen shows additional controls depending on the app in use. In the image,
you can see there are additional editing controls for the image editing app in
use.
The smaller display hidden behind the main screen
seems to be inspired by the ASUS ZenBook Pro 15 which has a touch-screen
display as its trackpad. The back of the second concept ASUS
5G dual slider phone is also home to dual cameras. The sensors are positioned
in the middle and arranged horizontally. Unlike the first one, this has a
fingerprint scanner on the back. It also has its volume rocker and power button
on the right.
Apart from the
concept renders, Evan Blass has also shared a photo collage that shows
prototypes of both phones. We think both
concepts are really good and it will be nice to see ASUS adopt one or both of
these designs for its future phones.
