The most unusual smartphone: review, features and reviews

Let's talk about all the unusual, connected with smartphones - about the original models of today, extraordinary phones-novelties 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 combined an e-book and a "smart" one. One of its screens is a usual full-color screen, and the second one is an "electronic ink". The latter is always active in the standby mode and consumes the minimum charge. This smartphone runs on Android, is equipped with two cameras - 8 and 2.1 megapixel, has 32 GB of internal memory.

In their reviews, users are delighted with its high-precision basic display, adequate cost, low weight, large memory capacity, wireless charging capability. Among the shortcomings - support for one SIM card, weak cameras, the lack of memory expansion.

HP Elite X3 - an alternative to PC

After connecting this unusual smartphone to the widescreen monitor, its mobile OS switches to the desktop version. The mouse and keyboard make the device almost equivalent to replacing a PC or laptop. In addition to this innovative feature, it attracts buyers in it a noble metal case, the main camera is 16 megapixel, 4-core processor, memory expansion up to 2 TB. Works "smart" on Windows 10 Mobile.

In the reviews, customers note the high battery capacity, the possibility of wireless charging, the retina scanner and fingerprint. Among the shortcomings - not the best sound from the speakers and decent value.

Caterpillar S60 - "smart" with a thermal chamber

Next among the most unusual smartphones in the world will be the Caterpillar S60, running on the Android platform. He got on our list due to the fact that he has an innovative camera capable of capturing thermograms - both photos and videos. Such an image is able to show which of the captured objects are warm, hot and red-hot. 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 admire about the waterproof and shock resistance created by the military standard MIL-STD-810G, the high accuracy of the screen and photos, the possibility of installing two "simok", built-in memory and the volume of the battery, but they are confused by the weight of the device (249 g) and its rather high price .

Project Ara - Smartphone Designer

The developer of the unusual smartphone Project Ara is the notorious corporation "Google". The concept of this phone is simple - the user acquires a frame-frame (a choice of large, medium and mini), on which they are attached by electro-permanent magnets selected by its taste elements - display, battery, processor, flash drive and keyboard. Any torn or broken module can easily be replaced with your own hands.

Among other things, the developers admit that the choice of modules for their smartphone- "Lego" can be narrow-profile - printers, night vision cameras, pico-projectors, medical equipment, etc. will be added to the standard ones. The drawback of the project is one - "Ara" has been under development for many years and is still inaccessible to those who are eager to see it and try the audience.

Folding Smartphone

To your attention, an unusual smartphone LG G Flex 3 - a modified version of the flexible novelty of the same "Al G", released as early as 2014. The 6-inch screen of the new model with a resolution of 2K is capable of not only bending, but also folding. And the back panel, according to the developers, is made of a material that can tighten its small damage.

In addition to all these fantastic features, the phone is dusty and moisture resistant, and, according to unofficial data, will be equipped with a camera with a resolution of up to 20 megapixels, a fingerprint scanner and the retina.

Smartphone with two screens

Smartphones with an unusual design - two screens, presented immediately by two developments. The first one is the NEC Medias W device. Here you can both use one compact screen and add it together with the second one in a single whole.

The second option is LG V10. In it next door will be located two screens - with a resolution of 5.7 inches and 2.09 inches. It is expected that a small "fellow" will perform the function of an auxiliary display, on which the service information will be displayed.

Frameless Smartphone

More recently, the released Galaxy S6 Edge and Galaxy Note Edge are amazed by the fact that looking at them, it seems that you have a smartphone, whose front panel is a solid display. This effect is obtained due to the fact that the screen is bent by a peculiar strip on the side of the device. This is done not only for the sake of giving the device an additional originality - on the strip there are various service information - notifications from social networks, etc.

Smartphone with rotating camera

Unusual smartphone of Chinese developers Oppo N3 can be added to our top because of one very original part - its camera simultaneously performs the function of front and rear. This is due to a special mechanism: pressing the button - and the camera, turning around 180 degrees around itself, looks at the user or, conversely, turns away from it.

The most unusual smartphones of the past

Let's look at the gadgets that once struck 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 practically use such a phone.
• Samsung Serene in shape resembled a rectangular square mirror or a compact. The second unusual detail was a round numeric keypad.
• BenQ Qube Z2 could easily be confused with a small MP-3 player (it, by the way, was also one of the options of the device). The developers also offered to their offspring removable panels of different colors - prototypes of modern bumpers.
• SpareOne is more unusual in content - the phone is able to stay for 15 years in standby mode without recharging the battery! In the talk mode, he will calmly work until 10 o'clock.
• Haier Pen Phone P7 - mini phone in the form of a pen. It is equipped with small buttons, a voice recorder and a camera - an ideal tool for a spy.
• Cuin5 - a smartphone of unusual shape, which is completely devoid of the screen. Instead of the latter, its entire surface is covered with a wide variety of buttons.
• Sharp Touch Wood SH-08C - this phone, created in the form of a bean, boasts an important detail - its back panel is made of cypress.
• ZTE s312 in appearance - the usual button "grandma's" phone. But among such devices it has a special advantage - the device is charged with solar energy.

Unusual use of smartphone

Most gadgets can be much more for you than a device for making calls, accessing social networks, a pocket camera and a player. Pay attention to this unusual use of the smartphone:

• Lantern . Virtually any phone is equipped with this bright LED detail - in modern smartphones flashlights is the camera flash. Auxiliary applications allow him to turn into an SOS-signal or arrange a light-disco.
• Measuring device. With the help of special attachments with a ball lens, you can turn your phone's camera into a photo microscope. A nozzle-diffraction grating with partitions made of ordinary black electrical tape - will make from the same camera a spectrometer.
• Personal doctor and trainer. At your service - hundreds of applications that will turn your device, if not a doctor, then a junior nurse: a program that analyzes children's crying, eaten foods, the level of drunk fluid, heart rate monitor, pedometers, etc.
• Gadget-coach. And again, the ubiquitous applications are rushing to the aid, which are ready to offer both the earliest learning of any foreign language, and the star map of the sky, the detailed atlas of the human body, the SDA, all sorts of intellectual quiz games, and the mass of all the cognitive and training.
• A toy for a four-legged friend. Developers of applications have taken care of long ago about our smaller brothers - you can download an interesting toy for a little animal for its taste and color in a couple of clicks.
• 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 the sale of phones equipped with their own barometer - they can boast, for example, Samsung Galaxy S4.
• A manual for a musician. With applications that simulate a guitar, piano or other instruments, you can easily learn the necessary basics. Did not ignore the developers as well as future DJs.
• GPS-navigator and DVR. More and more often you can meet on the roads of drivers who navigate the way through a navigation program built-in or loaded into a smartphone with a GPS receiver. Devaysy with a large or freely expanding with the help of flash memory cards, some motorists quite successfully use in the role of DVRs.
• Wi-Fi router. Almost all modern models of smartphones are able to "distribute" wi-fi to a number of devices - to the same phones, tablets, laptops.

Also not new is the use of "smart" as a scanner of paper documents, film film negatives, device-reader information from various barcodes, hidden camera, etc.

Original smartphones of the present and the past, as you saw, stand out from their brethren as bold design solutions, and a set of fundamentally new options. However, many applications to date can make any gadget unusual, adding it with new useful features.