Let's talk about everything unusual related to smartphones - about the original models of today, extraordinary novelty phones of the past, as well as about unexpected ways of using any, even the most classic smartphone.
YotaPhone 2 - smartphone and e-book
Let's start our top unusual smartphones with Russian development. YotaPhone 2 is a device that easily combines an e-book and "smart". One of its screens is an ordinary full-color one, and the second one is "electronic ink". The latter is always active in standby mode and consumes the very minimum of charge. This smartphone runs on Android, is equipped with two cameras - 8 and 2.1 MP, has 32 GB of internal memory.
In their feedback, users rave about its high-precision main display, adequate cost, light weight, large memory capacity, wireless charging capability. Among the shortcomings - support for one SIM card,weak cameras, lack of expandable memory.
HP Elite X3 - PC Alternative
After connecting this unusual smartphone to a widescreen monitor, its mobile OS switches to the desktop version. The mouse and keyboard make the device almost an equivalent replacement for a PC or laptop. In addition to this innovative property, buyers are attracted by a noble metal case, a 16-megapixel main camera, a 4-core processor, and memory expansion up to 2 TB. Works "smart" on Windows 10 Mobile.
In the reviews, buyers note the high battery capacity, the possibility of wireless charging, a retinal and fingerprint scanner. Among the shortcomings - not the best sound from the speakers and a decent price.
Caterpillar S60 smart with thermal camera
The next among the most unusual smartphones in the world will be the Caterpillar S60, running on the Android platform. He got into our list due to the fact that he has an innovative camera that can shoot thermal images - both photos and videos. Such an image can show which of the photographed objects are warm, hot and incandescent. In addition, the gadget is equipped with a standard 13-megapixel camera, 8-core processor, internal memory of 32 GB. Its body, by the way, is shockproof and water resistant.
Customers rave about MIL-STD-810G military standard water and shock resistance, high screen and photo accuracy, installabilitytwo SIM cards, built-in memory and battery capacity, but they are confused by the weight of the device (249 g) and its rather high price.
Project Ara - smartphone constructor
The developer of the unusual smartphone Project Ara is the notorious corporation Google. The concept of this phone is simple - the user purchases a frame-case (choice of large, medium and mini), on which they are attached with electropermanent magnets the elements chosen to their taste - display, battery, processor, flash drive and keyboard. Any disliked or broken module can be easily replaced with your own hands.
Among other things, the developers admit that the choice of modules for their "Lego" smartphone may be narrow-profile - printers, night vision cameras, pico projectors, equipment for doctors, etc. will be added to the standard ones. The project has one drawback - "Ara" has been under development for many summers and is still not available to the audience that wants to see and try it.
Flexible smartphone
To your attention is an unusual smartphone LG G Flex 3 - a modified version of a flexible novelty from the same "El G", released back in 2014. The 6-inch screen of the new model with a resolution of 2K can not only bend, but also fold. And the back panel, according to the developers, is made of a material that can tighten small damage to it.
In addition to all these truly fantastic features, the phone is dust and moisture resistant, andalso, according to unofficial data, will be equipped with a camera with a resolution of up to 20 megapixels, a fingerprint scanner and retina.
Dual screen smartphone
Smartphones with an unusual design - two screens, are represented by two developments at once. The first one is the NEC Medias W device. Here you can either easily use one compact screen or fold it together with the second into a single whole.
Second option - LG V10. It will have two screens next to each other - with a resolution of 5.7 inches and 2.09 inches. It is expected that the small "colleague" will serve as an auxiliary display, which will display service information.
Frameless smartphone
Relatively recently released Galaxy S6 Edge and Galaxy Note Edge are striking in that looking at them, it seems as if you have a smartphone in front of you, whose front panel is a solid display. This effect is obtained due to the fact that the screen is bent in a kind of strip on the side of the device. This is done not only for the sake of giving the device additional originality - various service information appears on the strip - notifications from social networks, etc.
Smartphone with rotating camera
An unusual smartphone of Chinese developers Oppo N3 can be included in our top because of one very original detail - its camera simultaneously performs the function of front and rear. This happens thanks to a special mechanism: pressing the button - and the camera,turning 180 degrees around himself, looks at the user or, on the contrary, turns away from him.
The most unusual smartphones of the past
Let's turn to the gadgets that once captured our imagination in retrospect:
- Motorola Flipout - a small square attracted attention in 2010 with a choice of colored panels - yellow, green, blue, red, lilac. However, it was extremely difficult to use such a phone in practice.
- Samsung Serene was shaped like a rectangular square mirror or powder box. The second unusual detail was a round numeric keypad.
- BenQ Qube Z2 could easily be confused with a small MP-3 player (which, by the way, was also one of the device's options). The developers also offered interchangeable panels of different colors for their brainchild - prototypes of modern bumpers.
- SpareOne is more unusual in content - the phone is able to stay in standby mode for 15 years without recharging the battery! In talk mode, he will quietly work up to 10 hours.
- Haier Pen Phone P7 is a pen-shaped mini phone. Equipped with small buttons, a voice recorder and a camera, it is the perfect tool for a spy.
- Cuin5 is a smartphone of an unusual shape, which is completely devoid of a screen. Instead of the latter, its entire surface is covereda wide variety of buttons.
- Sharp Touch Wood SH-08C - This bean-shaped phone boasts an important detail - its back panel is made of cypress.
- ZTE s312 looks like an ordinary push-button "grandmother's" phone. But among such devices, it is distinguished by a special advantage - the device is charged from solar energy.
Unusual smartphone use
Most gadgets can be much more than a device for making calls, accessing social networks, a pocket camera and a player. Pay attention to this unusual smartphone use:
- Lantern. Almost any phone is equipped with this bright LED detail - in modern smartphones, flashlights are the flash of a camera. Companion apps let it turn into an SOS or give them a light disco.
- Measuring device. With the help of special attachments with a ball lens, you can turn your phone's camera into a photomicroscope. And the attachment - a diffraction grating with partitions made of ordinary black electrical tape - will make a spectrometer out of the same camera.
- Personal doctor and trainer. At your service - hundreds of applications that will turn your device, if not into a doctor, then into a junior nurse: a program that analyzes baby crying, the food you eat, the level of fluid you drink, heart rate monitors, pedometers, etc.
- Gadget tutor. And again, ubiquitous applications are in a hurry to help, which they are ready to offer as the fastest study of any foreignlanguage, as well as a star map of the sky, a detailed atlas of the human body, traffic rules, all kinds of intellectual quiz games, as well as a lot of everything cognitive and educational.
- Toy for a four-legged friend. Application developers have long taken care of our smaller brothers - in a couple of clicks you can download an interesting toy for your animal to its taste and color.
- Remote control. For this task, you will need a device with an infrared port. The return of this option to smartphones can already be seen in some models of Samsung, LG, HTC and Sony.
- Weather station. Look for phones on sale that are equipped with their own barometer, such as the Samsung Galaxy S4.
- Manual for a musician. With applications that simulate guitar, piano or other instruments, you can easily learn the necessary basics. The developers also paid attention to future DJs.
- GPS-navigator and video recorder. More and more often you can meet drivers on the roads who navigate the way using a navigation program built into or downloaded to a smartphone with a GPS receiver. Devices with large or freely expandable memory using flash cards are quite successfully used by some motorists as DVRs.
- Wi-Fi router. Almost all modern smartphone models are able to "distribute" Wi-Fi to a number of devices - the same phones, tablets, laptops.
It is also not new to use "smart" as a scanner of paper documents, film negatives, a device that reads information from various strokes.codes, hidden cameras, etc.
Original smartphones of the present and the past, as you have seen, stand out from their brethren as bold design decisions, as well as a set of fundamentally new options. However, many applications today are able to make any gadget unusual by adding new useful features.
