COVER YOUR EYES! Motorola appears to be having a go at capturing itself a bit of the BlackBerry market with this – the Motorola CHARM. It’s a bit top-heavy, to say the least.
According to Engadget today, news of the CHARM comes courtesy of a few leaked images from a T-Mobile US training document, which reveals a comically wide Android handset complete with landscape-format, squared screen and all-out QWERTY beneath it.
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That’s mad. Even for Motorola, that’s mad. But could it work? The usability of an always-out QWERTY keyboard would clearly beat a touchscreen for text entry, and the one puzzling hardware hole Android is yet to fill is a decent BlackBerry clone. Good on you for trying at least, Moto.
It’s smooth to use, the 1080p display is sharp, clear and bright, the device is extremely light and thin and therefore very pocketable and portable — much more so than other 5-inch phones we’ve used. And yet… we’re a bit unimpressed by the overall package…
A relatively high-spec smartphone, with a 4.5″ display running at 480 x 854 resolution and powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, plus the Ascend G510 arrives running Android 4.1.1 — albeit potentially hindered by Huawei only sticking 512MB of RAM inside it..
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
Timbo
/ June 27, 2010That’s a nasty phone, just what were they thinking of? Nobody would get that out in public!
It reminds me of the nasty NEC QWERTY things that 3 were doing when they first started.