The era of blooming flowers - unique mobile phone inventory

In the first two installments, we reviewed the rotary camera models and full-keyboard models. Nokia, Motorola, and other vendors have launched a large number of classic and popular handsets. With the advancement of technology, capacitive screens have gradually matured, and touch screens are not subject to the terrible touch experience of resistive screens. With the release of the iPhone in 2007 as a turning point, mobile phones have entered the era of full touch control, and the candy bar large screen has become the mobile phone of all. The standard, larger display area and convenient operation mode greatly enhance the operation experience of the mobile phone, but it also brings some small drawbacks. The appearance design of the mobile phone is increasingly not different. . Now that we have had a hard time seeing a bright design, let's take a look at those uniquely shaped models today.

Siemens SX1

When it comes to Siemens, everyone’s first impression may be a variety of home appliances, but in fact Siemens was once a member of a mobile phone and has launched many models popular with consumers. The SX1 is one of the more outstanding ones. The small rounded appearance and the design of the numeric keypad on both sides are impressive. Unfortunately, the Siemens mobile phone division began to lose money in 2004, after which it began to cooperate with BenQ. The 2006-2007 season's sponsorship advertisement for Real Madrid's chest was BENQ-SIEMENS, but unfortunately it did not reverse the situation.

 

Nokia 7600

As a dominant player in the mobile phone industry, Nokia never lacked design genes. The 7600 is one of them. The chubby, almost square shape resembles a leaf. Its unique shape is loved by female users. Similar to the Siemens SX1 design, the 7600's numeric keypad is also on both sides of the screen.

Nokia 3650

2003 was an outbreak of Nokia design. In addition to the 7600, Nokia has an impressive model. This is the 3650. The beautiful colors match the keyboard layout of the analogous old telephone dial, which makes it slightly lively. It is one of the earliest smartphones equipped with the S60 system. However, the huge size limited its development, and after 3660 Nokia gave up this design.

Nokia n-gage

If other handset formats are like handheld game consoles, the Nokia N-Gage is an out-and-out gaming machine. In distant 2003, mobile games are still a barren land. If you want to play anytime, anywhere, then Nintendo's GBA is your best choice. Nokia just fancy the handheld game this market was launched N-Gage. It can play games like a GBA through a card, and users can purchase game cassettes themselves. But unfortunately the hero was not born in time, in 2003 Nintendo introduced a modified version of the GBA SP, the following year Sony launched a handheld game console PSP with a cross-age significance. Although N-Gage did not achieve the desired success, it is a pioneer and a milestone in modern mobile games.

 

Nokia 7700

Look at its shape, don't think it's a GBA game machine, it's really a real Nokia phone. The semi-circular shape is very unique, and the mix of colors is also very avant-garde. The 7700 runs the S90 system, which is equipped with a 3.5-inch touch screen with a resolution of 640 x 320 resolution. In 2004 it was a very high-end configuration, so the price was very high.

HTC Universal

Many people may not know this "mobile phone". As one of HTC's early models, Universal has the most powerful configuration in the Pocket PC era. As the first model equipped with Windows Mobile 5.0, it has a 3.6-inch VGA resolution ( The 640×480) flip rotates the touchscreen while maintaining the largest screen size and highest resolution at the time.

Nokia N93/N93i

We have briefly introduced the N93/N93i, which was once popular around the world, in the spin-up camera inventory. The scenes of the Transformers in the Transformers movie turned it into a thunderous moment. In addition to the rotatable flip, the N93's biggest selling point is its 3.2 million camera with the ability to triple optical zoom and 8x digital zoom, which is why its camera module is so large.

 

Sharp SH9020c

Speaking of the unique shape, we should never ignore the Japanese clamshell, and most of the same time European and American manufacturers use straight plate shape is different, Japanese manufacturers have been insisting on slender and simple clamshell design style for many years, we take everyone as a familiar example of Sharp. SH9020C seems to be a "standard" Japanese clamshell at first, but it is a mobile phone that supports the horizontal rotation of the screen. In Japan, a country that can watch wireless TV at any time, the horizontal screen is still very practical. It uses a 3.3-inch screen with a resolution of 854×480, which was a top display at the time.

 

Motorola AURA R1

If the flip, slide, or even the various rotations of the screen can't make you interested, then Motorola's AURA R1 with a circular screen rotation slider will surely arouse your curiosity. Moto released this 1.55-inch 480×480 resolution circular screen mobile phone in 2008, which is amazing. Although it is not a smart phone, but the unique shape, cool appearance, stainless steel shell exquisite workmanship, there is no suspense for AURA to become the 2008 appearance of the coolest cell phone.

 

Motorola ME600c

If you think that flip, rotate, slide covers all the possibilities of mobile phone design, then this Motorola ME600 will tell you, what is called "BackFlip" This is MOTO's name for ME600. At first glance, there is no difference between a backflip classmate and an ordinary candybar touch screen phone, but when you find it on the back of the keyboard and open the flip, you understand why it is called a backflip.

 

Kyocera ECHO

Into the Android era, there are still some manufacturers have different ideas. Kyocera ECHO, which is exclusively sold by Spirit, is such a machine. The mobile phone adopts a unique slider design and consists of two 3.5-inch screens. The two screens can run applications independently, and can also run the same application collaboratively.

 

Sharp 7218u

In addition to the sh9020c just introduced, Sharp also has a double-shaft model represented by 7218u. After opening the flip, it can be rotated longitudinally according to its own needs. Although the 7218u has a full-fledged clamshell, it is indeed an Android phone. It is equipped with a 3.3-inch capacitive touch screen while retaining the physical buttons, not only retains a style of the Japanese T9 keyboard, but also for the Android system has added Home, menu, return and search four buttons.

 

Sony Ericsson Xperia PlayZ1i

Did the keyboard that looked at it think of the PSP? Yes, PlayZ1i is such a cross-border product. This Android 2.3 phone is the first PlayStation Cerified phone. In addition to the PSP game control button, the side slide cover has a small touchpad in the middle of the keyboard to simulate the joystick's handling experience.

LG Vu3

Of course, this era is not the same for all vendors, and LG is clearly one of them. LG unveiled the Vu series with a 4:3 screen ratio, with all companies adopting 16:9 or 16:10. The Vu 3 was released in the second half of 2013. With a 5.2-inch screen, the short, fat shape is rather cute. Hardware Vu 3 uses Xiaolong 800 and 2G memory, which is equivalent to the LG G2 configuration released in the same period.

BlackBerry Passport

In the previous review of full-keyboard models, we have already introduced the BlackBerry Passport. Its wide square shape is well deserved to be included in the “uniquely shaped” range. If you don’t understand its shape yet... just introduce it. LG Vu 3 to compare it.

LG Flex2

In addition to the spacious and chunky Vu 3, LG has another impressive mobile phone, which is Flex 2 with a curved screen as the only company in the curved screen area that can compete with Samsung, LG in Flex 2 All the housekeeping skills were taken out, and the curvature of the arc fits the palm of the hand. Unlike the Flex generation with brush presence, the Flex 2 uses a 5.5-inch 1080P OLED screen and a Snapdragon 810+2G memory configuration to fully meet everyday needs.

Samsung Note Edge

When it comes to curved screens, how can we not mention Samsung? Although they are all curved screens, Samsung and LG have taken different routes on a mass production machine. The asymmetrical design makes Note Edge more unique. Note Edge's single-curved screen has strong practical functions, such as when the camera takes pictures and plays videos, the function buttons are displayed on the side screens, increasing the display area of ​​the screen. In addition, the side screen can also display incoming calls and SMS reminders, as well as some autonomous customization features.

Samsung S6 Edge/Edge+

Note Edge may not be commonplace, weird asymmetrical design and high selling price make many people discourage, but S6 Edge/Edge+ must have many people already in the hands, beautiful colors, cool appearance Thanks to everyone's welcome, S6 Edge was in short supply in the market. Although the technical sense of the hyperbolic screen is more than practical, it has to be said that forcing a cell phone like this to force the table to be really bursting!

YotaPhone 2

This mobile phone does not have to say much. As Russia’s “national gift”, its popularity has almost reached the point where nobody knows it. As an ink screen + touch screen dual screen positive and negative mobile phone, Yota's full sense of technology, the positive is a 5-inch 1080P AMOLED screen, the reverse is a resolution of 960 × 540 4.7 inch ink screen, the design concept Very unique.

(Some pictures come from the internet)