ASCII.jp How many of you know the metamorphosis smartphone equipped with Motorola's QWERTY keyboard?: Weekly risky

Motorola starts full -scale entry into the Japanese SIM -free smartphone market with "Moto G4 Plus" compatible with 4G and 3G dual stand motorcycles.Only the company, which started selling mobile phones in the world, has produced many products so far.

Among them, there are many devices that are unthinkable now.In addition, many products equipped with QWERTY keyboard have been released.This time, I would like to introduce some unusual products that can be "pervert certification" from such smartphone products.

A smartphone equipped with a QWERTY keyboard that opens vertically and horizontally "MPX300"

A mobile phone called "W Open Style", which opened vertically and horizontally, was released in Japan around 2006.The "MPX300", which adopts the same mechanism on the QWERTY keyboard, is a product that can be called the top three perverted smartphones in all smartphones.

The release is much older than 2004 and Japan's W open style mobile phone.The OS is Microsoft Pocket PC 2003 SE before Windows Mobile.The closed state is a slightly wide range of clam shell -type terminals, but the upper pig part opens up and horizontally.

If you open it vertically (a little forced) mobile style

If you open it sideways, you can turn into a smartphone style with a QwERTY keyboard

With a special hinge structure, it can be opened vertically and horizontally.The display is a touch panel and can be operated using a stylus pen.The keyboard part is a special array that can be used vertically or horizontally, and a complex key map that the whole, including the key, is in the sideways QWERTY sequence while arranging 10 keys around the cross key.

In this era, if you do this, you will escape to soft key.Motorola's product development capabilities have not been Tadamono since this time.

Motorola QWERTY Keyboard's ancestor "V100"

In 2000, Motorola, Ericsson, and Nokia were fighting the top of the world's mobile phone share in 2000, Motorola launched an ambitious terminal.The blue translucent color body would have been influenced by the IMAC at the time.It was a product equipped with a monochrome 126 x 64 dots, a display with only 7 lines display, but it was possible to hit SMS comfortably with a QWERTY keyboard.

A headset is required to make a voice call.It was a product that specialized in the use of SMS, and now it is a "social mobile phone".In Japan, the use of e -mails became commonplace when the spread of i -mode progressed, but in overseas, SMS was the mainstream of mobile phone text communication.

By the way, there are almost no official photos of the manufacturer in the products at this time, and this photo appeared in the annual report of Motorola.The fact that it was posted there means that it was a strategic product at the time.

If you open it, the keyboard, if you close it, the mobile phone "A630"

VGA and digital zoom are also possible for the camera on the mobile phone side

This V100 has been remodeled since then, and in 2004 it has evolved to the "A630" that can be used as a normal straight mobile phone.Equipped with a QWERTY keyboard, the functions are SMS and email, and WAP (mobile Internet at the time).Nevertheless, it was a product that could enjoy mobile communication at that time, such as being able to immediately send photos taken using the VGA camera on the back.

The display is 176 x 220 dots, and is larger than the V100 with 8 lines.Even so, the size is just under 1 inch, but now it is very small.

BLACKBERRY style "Moto Q8" that also released Motorola

Looking back at Motorola's past smartphones, many products with QWERTY keyboards are actually sold.There are more than 30 models with QWERTY keyboards, including derivative models, and more than 10 BLACKBERRY -style vertical QWERTY keyboard terminals are available.

And before Android, Motorola had a smartphone of the same style.That is the "Moto Q" series.OS is Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0/6.1 Standard Edition, the display is a non -touch panel.Three models were released, "Moto Q8" in 2005, "Moto Q 9H" in 2007, and "Moto Q11" in 2008.

The design is a little more fashionable than the same model of other companies

The stylish body was targeted for business people as a BlackBerry competition, and was targeted for young generations as design terminals, including putting blue accent colors in the main unit.

In China, it was a model that was familiar with stamps such as Facebook, adopted the character of the weak rabbit "TZUKI" in advertising in Moto Q, and used email to penetrate rich communication.

Android smartphones are also perverted!If you are a QWERTY keyboard terminal, leave it to Motorola

By the way, in 2009, the smartphone OS was finally unified into Android.Among the several models released that year, the “Motorola Milestone” equipped with a slide QWERTY keyboard was greatly appealed as a flagship.An ambitious model that is equipped with a keyboard that is easy to hit and a fingerprint authentication sensor for security measures to compete with the iPhone with only touch panels.In the United States, it is a product that was a huge hit as "Motorola Droid".

Almost every year, Motorola issues a model with a QWERTY keyboard, and comes out one after another, with interesting gimmicks and designs.Let's pick up some of them.

"Backflip" where the keyboard rotates from the back

"Backflip" has a structure that rotates the QWERTY keyboard with a hinge from the back of the main unit instead of a slide type.Although the thickness of the main unit is increased due to the structure, even if you put it in a jeans pocket and sit on a chair, you will not have to worry about it by accidentally bending the body.A product that is positioned as a casual QWERTY keyboard terminal.Released in 2010.

"FLIPOUT" where the keyboard on the back of the square screen comes out

This is also a product targeting the young generation.A smartphone with a compact square display smartphone that makes a gimmick that turns the keyboard on the back only when needed to become a vertical QWERTY keyboard terminal.Released in 2010.

One -handed smartphone with a trackpad "FlipSide"

Equipped with a square touchpad at the home button under the display, with an orthodox horizontal slide QWERTY keyboard.Even if you are closed, you can do one -handed operation by tapping the thumb touch pad without touching the screen.Released in 2010.

"Atrix" that allows you to use a laptop type docking station

Can be used like a 11 -inch notebook PC

In 2010, Motorola sent out aggressive products one after another, such as doing gimmicks and styles that other companies do not do.

And this "Atrix" was announced in January 2011.You can use a display and battery without CPU or memory, and a notebook PC style docking station with a built -in keyboard.There is no doubt that this will be taken now!I think ......

I hope the QwERTY keyboard smartphone will reappear soon

Motorola's QWERTY keyboard -mounted smartphone has not appeared in 2012.Speaking of 2012, Google acquired Motorola, and Google may have been asking Motorola for a product that would be an Android reference design.

However, Motorola is now under Renovo.In the era when smartphones are becoming more difficult year by year, I would like to expect the resurrection of a Motorola smartphone equipped with a QWERTY keyboard, even if it is impossible to make a metamorphosis system.