Crowd-funded Smartphone PC: Symetium

Sounds like a scam. "Look at this highend smartphone! Want it? Give us a million dollars."

IMO, their goal is way too low to bring out a high end phone and the development team is not existent.

 

This looks spectacular on paper, but all they have is a bunch of renders and some specs.

I can't find anything about the company. Who are they and where are they coming from? What other projects have these people been involved with?
If they're working with a chinese manufacturer, which one is it? How are they ever going to secure shipments of the Snapdragon 820, high-density LPDDR4, AMOLED screens and that 24MPx module with just $1.25M?

Even I would see myself jumping in if this was coming from reputable people (e.g. Jolla). The specs and the design seem truly great.
But the information is way too scarce for me to see myself spending that much money.

 

Note that there is nothing about all the engineering that went into making sure this design was possible. That's because they have no engineers to make sure it is possible.

If the 24 megapixel sensor is the omnivision ov23850, that's 6.3mm thick - already thicker than the claimed 6mm. And I don't believe that includes the lens/optics. Note that there is no camera hump. See how it doesn't add up?

If a phone of this caliber was possible, someone would have made it already.

 

To me, what instantly triggered some awareness was this part from the video:



If that's a 5" screen with those bezels, it means we're looking at a device that's even shorter than the Galaxy S4, so it's less than 135mm.
So they made a full qwerty keyboard and touchpad within 135mm? Are you supposed to use that with capacitive toothpicks?

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/symetium/status/585247045163823104/photo/1

Found a "render" of the internals on Twitter.

Now, I'm no expert, but if that battery is 4000mah in a 6mm body, I'll eat my shoe.

 

I'd imagine there are various exotic battery chemistries being tested in labs which would make a really compact 4000 mAh battery a possibility, but if they're in the lab, we'll be talking about a few years before production just yet...

 

Rthew keyvboard isd asctually [pretty gopd. I;'m usi8ng itr reight n ow@!!

 

I hear that the trackpad even has 3D ForceTouch, in that you get so angry using it, you throw it at the wall.

 

you sure, whilst there are prolly a couple of exceptions in the main I'm sure you'll actually find bezels are getting thinner

This looks to be vapourwear (they should really be forced to write, CGI mockup in all pictures/videos (*)) & wont hit the goal, so you should get your money back

(*)though they do have a couple of an 'actual' piece of hardware, but no pictures with the screen on, so I assume its actually hollow, either that or they dont know how to turn it on

 

What's wrong with the Xperia Z5 Compact? It's a great phone, like its predecessors.
127mm tall, Snapdragon 810, 32GB+microSD, front-facing stereo speakers and waterproof.

 

Just a pity that the Z5 Compact isn't just a little larger in height and width (and correspondingly a little thinner) to squeeze in a 5" screen. I owned a phone with a 4.5" screen and find 5" screens just a little better for my clumsy thumb-typing.

I agree, though, the 'Compacts' are excellent phones. I've got a friend who still owns the Z3 Compact (work phone) and he's delighted that the Z5 Compact is now available as he comes towards the renewal of the contract.

Strange how Sony have been the only manufacturer to produce a more compact phone with high-end innards (other than those bezel-free Sharp phones in Japan). Perhaps the other manufacturers have simply decided they can't better Sony's Compacts?

 

This is "pie in the sky" and won't see the "light of day" unfortunately. The concept looks really nice, but there is just too much supposed "cutting edge" to appear in a new start. Anyway, they intend shipping from August 2016, by then, who knows what will be on the market. Although one idea I do like that they demonstrated in the video, was docking the phone and then using it on a large screen as a desktop computer. This is where I see things going in future.

 

Then get the regular Z5. That one has a 5" screen.

 

How bout that one? http://www.tinydeal.com/lenovo-vibe...1-quad-core-android-44-4g-phone-p-155725.html

 

A 6" screen doesn't allow the most compact of phones!