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Good lord, look at the utterly MAD keyboard on this bizarre clamshell thing. It’s like Lenovo has entered into a competition to see if it can make a phone that’s even more ugly than the DROID.
It would appear to have succeeded:
On the positive side, Lenovo’s generously screwed in an on-the-large-side 3.7″ OLED touchscreen, which seems to rapidly be becoming the default screen size for all new Android phones going forwards. There’s much more about the Lephone over at MobileCrunch, including a video of Lephone’s Android build in action – which is believed to be a modified almost beyond recognition version 2.0.
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I actually quite like this phone’s looks. I also like the fact the keyboard is an optional external peripheral, as I know a lot of folks consider a phone without a keyboard an instant turn-off. Saying that, I’m sure you won’t be getting the keyboard packaged with the phone for free. I dread to think how much extra people will have to shell out for it. Stupid keyboard layouts don’t design themselves, someone will have to pay for the weeks of brainstorming sessions it must have taken their design team ‘experts’ to come up with something so utterly pointless.
I have a sneaky suspicion this phone might just be a big player in the coming months. The only drawback being that holy crap, but it’s big (either that or the reviewer in the vid has really tiny hands…)