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John’s 1 snow
Quick ViewWOW Factor: The first world simplest mobile phone
Evaluation in my collection: Good- 8.5/10
Life timer: N/A | Boxed: YES
Release Year: 2010 | Release Price: ~80 EUR
About: John’s Phone is a mobile phone that is made in the Netherlands and sold by John’s (Phone From The Supermarket BV). It claims to be the world’s most basic cell phone, allowing the user only to make and receive calls, with none of the features of modern smartphones such as a camera, Internet access and text messaging; the address book is a paper pad and a pen, built into the back of the device. It is built around the Keep It Simple concept.It was designed and developed by Hein Mevissen and Diederiekje Bok of Dutch advertising and design agency John Doe Amsterdam.It is marketed as being ideal for children, the elderly, and technophobes.
Reviews when released: Engadget
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Mitsubishi Trium Galaxy Wind
Quick ViewEvaluation in my collection: As New – 10/10
Life timer: N/A | Boxed: NO
Release Year: 1999 | Release Price: ~100 USD
About: N/A
Reviews when released: N/A
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Motorla Aura
Quick ViewWOW Factor: Saphire glass, stainless steel, swivel like opening mechanism, Swis Made gears for the mechanism.
Evaluation in my collection: Great 9.5/10
Life timer: N/A | Boxed: NO
Release Year: 2008 | Release Price: ~2000USd
About: Motorola Aura (styled AURA) is a series of luxury mobile phones from Motorola, and is part of the 4LTR line, announced in October 2008 and made available by December. Though it was going to be a series, only one phone was released, known as Aura R1. However, three further special editions of the Aura R1 were released through 2009: Aura Diamoniqe Edition, Aura Celestial Edition and Aura Diamond Edition. Aura used to be a luxury device with US$2000 price tag. It was made from premium materials such as stainless steel and sapphire to appeal large audience and comes inside a wooden box.
The phone featured a unique high-resolution circular display with 300dpi and an adapted circular user interfaced based on Motorola’s MotoMagx operating system. One of the main selling points of the device apart from its screen was its swivel-like opening mechanism. Motorola tried to replicate the success of Razr V3 series by making a new innovative phone. The screen’s opening mechanism was made possible thanks to its Swiss-made gears composed of Rockwell 50-55 hardened steel and 130 precision ball bearings. Its custom-engineered rotating mechanism is composed of more than 200 high-precision individual parts, and the gears are protected against harsh conditions with the same coatings used in high-performance racing engines. The screen of the AURA was able to display 26 Million different colours, all these things made it one of a kind phone, which never really took off. [1]
Reviews when released: Cnet.Com
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Motorla V50
Quick ViewEvaluation in my collection: Great – 9/10
Life timer: N/A | Boxed: NO
Release Year: 2000 | Release Price: N/A
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Reviews when released: N/A
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Motorola A780
Quick ViewWOW Factor: The first Motorola with Linux Operating System
Evaluation in my collection: Great – 9/10
Life timer: N/A | Boxed: NO
Release Year: 2003 | Release Price: ~250 EUR
About: The Motorola A780 is a cellular PDA running the Linux operating system.
It was introduced in 2003 and sold in Europe and Asia.Some models include GPS and navigation software. The phone is supplied with a number of applications including a POP and IMAP email client, Opera web browser, calendar and a viewer for PDF and Microsoft Office files. Calendar and address book can be synchronized with a Microsoft Exchange or SyncML server. The phone has a 1.3 megapixel camera recording still and video images. RealPlayer is included to play sound audio files and streamed audio and video. The phone has 48 megabytes of internal flash memory for storing user data and a slot for a microSD card. Both Bluetooth and USB are provided for communication with another computer. Character entry is via an on-screen QWERTY keyboard and hand writing recognition. Models including a GPS receiver are supplied with ALK Technologies’ CoPilot Live navigation software with street level maps of Europe.Reviews when released: OS News
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Motorola F3
Quick ViewWOW Factor: The first mobile phone to use electronic paper in its screen
Evaluation in my collection: BNIB – 10/10
Life timer: 0m | Boxed: YES
Release Year: 2006 | Release Price: ~20 EUR
About: The F3 (frequently known as the Motofone) was a GSM phone available in two band variants, and was released on 28 November 2006.
The Motofone F3 was designed to appeal to the low-end market and developing countries, and was thus less functional, but also less expensive than most phones. Motorola made it appealing to developing markets and people with reading and visual difficulties by using only simple symbols and using speech synthesis to identify tasks in the menu.
The F3 was the first mobile phone to use electronic paper in its screen. Motorola used the term ClearVision to describe the new display, which was manufactured using E Ink’s electrophoretic imaging film. The electronic paper main display allowed for the phone’s thinness (no glass), longer battery life, and outdoor viewability (paper-like reflectivity). It had a backlight for the keypad and a slit that projects the backlight onto the screen so the display can be seen in darkness.The characteristics of the display were fairly restrictive. The text display contained only two lines of six characters each, making the use of text messaging (SMS) and data services less practical than on standard LCD displays. The display used a fixed ‘digital clock’ style font, with no functionality for changing between upper case and lower case text. All SMSs sent by the F3 were received entirely in lower case, and each character of any SMS received by the F3 is displayed in whichever case made the most sense using the font. Also, the non-alphabetic characters were severely limited due to this display, as the phone could only provide support for the following characters:
Comma (,) (periods . in incoming text messages are displayed as commas)
Hyphen (-)
Question mark (?)
At-sign (@)
Asterisk (*)
(+), to write this character, hold down the 0 key
No other non-alphanumeric characters could be entered, and on receiving an SMS any non-alphabetic character not listed above was displayed as a hyphen.Although the display could be restrictive when it came to text applications, the display was very energy efficient and conducive to extremely long battery life.
Reviews when released: Trusted Reviews
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Motorola Flipout
Quick ViewEvaluation in my collection: Great – 9/10
Life timer: N/A | Boxed: NO
Release Year: 2010 | Release Price: ~100 EUR
About: Its square-shaped body has two parts that rotate near the bottom-right corner to reveal a five-row QWERTY keyboard below the screen. It has an accelerometer and includes a web browser with Adobe Flash Lite 3.0.The Flipout replaces the bigger Backflip.
Reviews when released: Mobile Review
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Motorola V3
Quick ViewEvaluation in my collection: Great – 9.0/10
Life timer: N/A | Boxed: YES
Release Year: 2005 | Release Price: ~450 USD
About: The Motorola Razr (styled RAZR, pronounced /?re?z?/ like “razor”; codenamed Siliqua) was a series of mobile phones by Motorola, part of the 4LTR line. The V3 was the first phone released in the series and was introduced in July 2004 and released in the market in the third quarter of 2004.The V3 model was followed soon thereafter by the improved V3i, including a collaboration with Apple Inc. for iTunes to be built-in. It was launched in 2005.
Because of its unique appearance and thin profile, it was initially marketed as an exclusive fashion phone. However, within a year, its price was lowered and as a result, it sold over 50 million units by July 2006. Leading up to the release, Motorola’s cell phone division sales were stagnant and losing money. The success of the Razr made the division profitable again. Over the Razr’s four-year run, the V3 model sold more than 130 million units, becoming the best-selling clamshell phone in the world to date.
The Razr series was marketed until July 2007, when the succeeding Motorola Razr2 series was released. The succeeding models were the V8, the V9, and the V9m. However, Razr2 sales were not as good as the original V3 series, with consumers moving to competing products. Because Motorola relied so long upon the Razr and its derivatives and was slow to develop new products in the growing market for feature-rich touchscreen and 3G phones, the Razr appeal declined, leading Motorola to eventually drop behind Samsung and LG in market share for mobile phones. Motorola’s strategy of grabbing market share by selling tens of millions of low-cost Razrs cut into margins and resulted in heavy losses in the cellular division.
In October 2011, Motorola resurrected the Razr brand for a line of Android smartphones: the Droid Razr for Verizon Wireless (known simply as the “Motorola RAZR” on other networks) and an improved variant, the Droid Razr Maxx. The new “Razr” line shares the trademark thinness and stylized tapered corners with the original. The series was marketed until 2013.
On November 14, 2019, Motorola again revived the Razr brand, this time for an Android-based foldable smartphone styled after the original Razr, which carried the same name.
Reviews when released: Mobile Review
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Motorola V70
Quick ViewWOW Factor: The first Motorola with a rotary design
Evaluation in my collection: Good – 8.5/10
Life timer: N/A | Boxed: NO
Release Year: 2002 | Release Price: ~400 USD
About: The Motorola V70 is by far one of the sleekest mobiles seen to date. Its innovative design; silver casing; compact size (3.7 by 1.5 by 0.7 inches; 2.9 ounces); and inverse-image (black background, white letters), five-line circular display all contribute to this mobile’s “wow” factor. But the real eye-catcher is its 360-degree rotating keypad cover.
Reviews when released: Cnet.com
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Motorola VE66
Quick ViewEvaluation in my collection: BNIB – 10/10
Life timer: 0m | Boxed: YES
Release Year: 2008 | Release Price: ~250 EUR
About: VE 66 had the MotoMagx which is a Linux kernel-based mobile operating system developed and launched in 2007 by Motorola to run on their mid-to-high-end mobile phones. The system is based on MontaVista’s Mobilinux. Originally intended for the 60% of their upcoming devices,[1] it was soon dropped in favor of Android and Windows Mobile operating systems.[2]
Reviews when released: N/A
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NEC e616v
Quick ViewEvaluation in my collection: Great – 9/10
Life timer: N/A | Boxed: NO
Release Year: 2003 | Release Price: N/A
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Reviews when released: N/A
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Nokia 3108
Quick ViewWOW Factor: Handwriting Recognition
Evaluation in my collection: Great- 9.5/10
Nokia Codename:
Life timer: 3 min | Boxed: NO
Release Year: 2003 | Release Price: N/A
About: The second pen-input phone from Nokia specifically for the Chinese market. This compact phone features the same flip-down keypad as the innovative 6108. Recognizes English and Chinese handwriting. Also features Java, MMS, and speakerphone.
Reviews when released: N/A