Before the advent of smartphones, which, hand to heart, are as similar as an egg to an egg, the mobile landscape was not so monotonous. It's so hard to find a really ugly phone these days, but if we go back just a few years, we have a whole series of them. And if today the struggle takes place mainly on the price-quality relation, once there was so much more experimentation with design. And as in fashion, there were hiccups. Okay, let's leave out the currently hot LG G4, which has an animal skin on the back and is a potential candidate for this category. Here are the truly ugliest cell phones of all time.
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Given how well the crowd has responded to Google's Project Ara modular smartphone, it's no wonder others have taken the modular bait. And if it has been adopted by the masses, how do you bring such an expensive phone as close as possible to that mass? The answer is in the palm of your hand. Through a crowdfunding campaign. This is exactly what the Fonkraft modular mobile phone, aimed at the widest range of people, did, collecting funds on Indiegogo and literally racing towards the goal of 50 thousand US dollars.
Every now and then, a smartphone comes along that is so impressive that we can't ignore it, even though we know it won't be our next phone. One such example is the Turing Phone, a smartphone that is stronger than steel. Turing Robotic Industries has prepared a mobile phone with a case made of liquidmorphium metal alloy, which protects it from damage, moisture and water. If you are looking for a durable phone in both physical and hardware terms, the Turing Phone is the right choice.
All of you who love Apple products will shed a tear at this video. The Ukrainian blogger TechRex prepared an interesting experiment for his followers, where the brand new iPhone 6 is pre-boiled in boiling Coca Cola.
Although LG has not yet officially presented its smartphone, the technical data and now the image are still only an open secret. Judging by its appearance, it does not differ much from its predecessor LG G3, but with leather (at least six different shades - from black, brown to blue and yellow) or plastic background (black, white, gold, red and purple) with a pseudo-carbon look, this smartphone, which is said to be looking for its first customers already at the end of April 2015, what to show.
Considering that the smartphone market is dominated by Androids, choosing the best Android phone is actually synonymous with choosing the best smartphone. But while the Boers have little real competition from the outside, a fierce war is going on inside the camp. The Android ecosystem is flooded with super-thin, curved, gigantic, affordable, expensive and premium phones. We have selected the best that you cannot go wrong with when buying in 2015.
If you've lost count of how many Fonepads Asus has already released, you're not the only one. There's nothing wrong with that, because Asus is just pushing the limits of tablets with which you can also make calls, further and further. Although many people laugh at the sight of someone talking on the phone with a device with a 7-inch screen - we admit, we thought it was funny at first too - but once you get to know the tablet, you no longer pay attention to the opinions of others, and even less to the competition.
If you thought the HTC One M9 looked a lot like its predecessor, wait until you see the HTC One M8s, which is almost identical to last year's flagship HTC One M8, but available for a significantly lower price. So if you want a mid-range smartphone that you can easily trade in for an elite one, the One M8s is the right choice. But so you don't think it's a Ferrari with a Fičo engine. The HTC One M8s is powerful, sophisticated and most importantly, affordable.
If you are looking for a smartphone that is the H&M of mobiles, then the Lenovo Lemon K3 Note is perfect for you. Trendy, high-quality but extremely affordable. The new member of the Lemon family also has a characteristic yellow lemon shade of the case, and in addition to the characteristic color, it also differs with the back, where a circle with the Lenovo inscription protrudes. But not as prominently as the Lemon K3 Note stands out from the competition. Its direct competitor is the Meizu M1 Note, which we have already written about.
With the Blackphone 2 smartphone, no one will be able to spy on you, not even the US National Security Agency (NSA), for whom phones are an "all-you-can-eat" buffet of personal data, because almost any smartphone can be hacked phone and intercepts almost every conversation. But now she ran into a wall again, as the Silent Circle security company presented users with the second generation of "android" Blackphone 2 smartphones, which, among other things, enable encryption of communication through applications.
The English mobile operator O2, together with designer Sean Miles, produced an ecologically colored case for the Windows Phone smartphone, which, except for the "skin", is made of grass from the rugby field in Twickenham, home of the English rugby team. He and O2, whose O2 Recycle division buys back old smartphones, are supporting the Rugby Union's (RFU) 'Try for Change' campaign, which aims to motivate people to recycle old devices.
Looking for an affordable smartphone that doesn't come from the iOS or Android camp? Then the 145-gram Microsoft Lumia 640 LTE may be the right answer. You won't have to wait long for it either (somewhere until the beginning of April), so you can slowly prepare approx. 240 euros. And although it will still be waiting for you with the mobile operating system Windows Phone 8.1, it has all the predispositions to "compete" with the upcoming Windows 10 as well.