Motorola Motofashion X3 Fashion Phone Concept, Ergonomically Bad

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

(8 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)

 Loading ... Does anyone want to reinvent the flip phone? Ravefolk, Motorolafans forums user claims that he does and shows the world his creation: Motorola Motofashion X3, the start of a new series of fashion phones, as the designer claims. The Linux-based handset is a weird combination between original design and mid-range features, but its ergonomics are pretty bad for a fashion phone…

Well, for starters, the screen is too small and the keypad is very uncomfortable to use, not to mention the whole flip phone mechanism that’s pretty much useless, since you can use 90% of the phone’s features right away, without flipping it open. Here’s the list of Motofashion X3′s features anyway:

- OLED high-def display, 262k colours, 220 x 768 pixels resolution
- 2.0 megapixel camera with macro, 8x zoom and flash
- video recording in MP4 format
- Mototunes media player
- FM Stereo Radio with RDS
- Picsel document viewer
- Bluetooth 1.2 with AD2P
- Flight mode
- Linux-based UI with Flash-based interface
- 7 direct shortcuts via numeric buttons

[via Motorolafans]

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Motorola SPDR Concept Handles a Different Kind of Web

Friday, March 7th, 2008

(6 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)

 Loading ... A spider web, to be more precise, as it seems that Motorola and Spider-man have collided into a pretty neat gadget. This beautiful device was designed by Jonathan Lucas and published on Coroflot, so we’ve yet to hear an announcement from Motorola regarding the SPDR handset.

 

An interesting feature of this concept phone is the fact that it includes a cool microphone which extends down using a spider web-shaped mechanism. Will we see such a device in Spider-man 4, the movie? I guess it’s Motorola’s call, but I don’t think they’re in the mood for such bold initiatives.

[via Coroflot]

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