Another over-designed Motorola Monstrosity(TM) appears, courtesy of the visually impaired monkeys that staff Motorola’s phone design lab. Android blog Phandroid has the disturbing photos, one of which we have stolen and reproduced here as it’s unlikely they’d be able to stop us even if they wanted to.
In short – it’s another horrible-looking lump of plastic from the American phone company.
The “Backflip” hinges open to reveal a QWERTY keyboard, or can be used SHUT in touch-screen mode. It has a 3.1″ screen, but there’s no way on earth we’ll ever be touching it, not even with yours. Just give it up, Motorola. Demote yourself to Bluetooth headsets and leave the design work to the grown-ups.
Motorola’s latest flagship dual-core Android monster is a massive, original powerhouse, that’s a big improvement on previous MOTOBLUR mobiles – but still isn’t a total winner.
A slim and glamorous phone from Sony Ericsson, with the sharpest display around. It’s no powerhouse and the screen’s not the biggest out there, but we don’t mind. Because it’s cute.
LG’s first glasses-free 3D phone is a heavy, fat monster, with a clever 3D effect that works rather well. As a smartphone, though, it’s heavy and underwhelming.
A very shiny thing from Sony Ericsson, with a 3.7″ screen and Android 2.3.3 inside. But is it exciting enough to win fans in today’s spec-obsessed market? Can man live on one core alone?
INQ’s Android phone is an interesting “boutique” piece of hardware, packed with unique interface customisations that go far beyond the headline Facebook integration. We like it a lot.
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/ January 8, 2010Personally I am worried that the 528 MHz processor within this phone isn’t going to be able to match the next gen of Android powered handsets from HTC, on top of this I am also skeptical that feeling a QWERTY keyboard underneath your fingers whilst making a call is going to have any positive response from consumers.
The screen also appears to be incredibly finger print and smudge happy, and the overall look of the phone is a little bit plasticky. Couple that to the V shaped keyboard – which although is a nice change to all the samey handsets lately, has no real point to increasing user functionality and thus could be seen as a gimmick.
But we’ll have to wait and see, i’m certainly not expecting anything new in terms of OS, but the overall chassis of this thing will be something special i’m sure – possibly even innovative and inspiring to other manufacturers.
Innovation? Sure. Clouded inpiration? Definately not.
Thanks for the post :)
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Jakk
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/ January 8, 2010People will just have to get used to using touchscreens, basically. I resisted them for ages, but once you’re up-to-speed you realise there’s no real need for a QWERTY – it’s not like you can type at a decent speed on a keyboard that small, anyway.