For a long time, the design of candy bar mobile phones has been the conventional layout of keyboard and screen. Only in the early years of the boom in fruit and robots did a "big breakthrough" appear: touch technology. In this issue, the editor shared a mobile phone from Motorola e8. Positioned as a professional candy bar music touch machine, it has an ultra-thin appearance and a full mirror screen design. The core technology is OMEGAWHEEL and ModeShift technology, which supports multi-functional sliding touch and cooperates with keyboard lighting to create a fashionable and sci-fi feel. Now it still looks bright and beautiful.
When you pick up the e8 mobile phone, you will first be attracted by its front appearance. Although the overall shape of the e8 is not large, the sense of refinement is outstanding from the inside to the outside. The main part is the front design. Different from the conventional keyboard and screen segmented design of ordinary mobile phones, the front keyboard and screen of e8 are integrated, achieving the effect of a mirror screen. Whether the screen is off or on, it's seamless and looks beautiful. Furthermore, due to the special technology used, it is difficult to distinguish the dividing line between the keyboard and the screen even in use scenarios, and it is even difficult to tell whether it uses a physical keyboard design. Only when the screen is on, you can see the edge luminous strip, which shows that it is a 2.0-inch horizontal screen, which is very rare.
On the front integrated panel of the mobile phone, apart from the screen, the navigation keys in the middle part are the most eye-catching. To put it simply, the e8 #039's navigation keys consist of two-thirds of a semicircle and look like a dashboard. The half circle of white is silk-screened and dotted on the black panel. It is very eye-catching whether the screen is off or on. Specifically, the soul function of this button is to support rotating touch, similar to a turntable/reel operation, which is officially called OMEGAWHEEL technology. Friends who have used Fruit iPod may have this impression. The turntable slides smoothly, the operation is quick and effective, and it is easy to reach with one touch. Compared with physical buttons, the experience improvement is extremely obvious. This e8 turntable operates globally. It's hassle-free to click, select and watch the cursor jump.
It can be seen that Motorola e8 can carry forward touch technology. In fact, not only that, the e8 keyboard also has more professional touch functions. By clicking the shortcut keys, the mobile phone keyboard can also be transformed into professional use mode. Generally speaking, there are three modes: regular phone, music, and camera. In phone mode, all phone keyboard lights are on, including navigation keys, left and right soft keys, t9 numeric keyboard, etc. At this time, the mobile phone operates like a normal tablet computer. It's just all keys, not really physical keys, but touch keys. But what’s so powerful about the motorcycle is that all touch keys use simulated vibration to restore the operating feel of physical keys, to the point where they look just like the real thing. When you actually press them, the vibration is moderate, the feedback is noticeable, and the feel is top-notch.
Continue reading. After switching modes, e8 can use music player and camera modes. In the music playback mode, the keyboard lights are turned off, and only a few key lights on the upper part are retained, which display the previous and next songs on the navigation keys, the up and down volume marks on the keyboard, and the play mode mark. In camera mode, similarly, the light on the keyboard light will turn into a camera, stop shooting, etc. What's amazing is that touching the relevant light area can be accurately controlled, and you can press casually on areas without light without any accidental touches.
After booting into the desktop with e8, the icons are divided into upper and lower rows because the screen is horizontal. Because the editor’s mobile phone is customized for mobile use, its menu has pre-installed software, such as the common Montnets and 580 music clients. Moreover, the built-in e8 is not an ordinary OEM system, but a Linux system, which is a smart machine. Therefore, java installation is supported, and other professional software can be developed after flashing. Although there are not many in quantity, each one is a fine product. I have downloaded a lot of software on this editing machine, such as qq, Renren.com, 58, Ganji, etc., but due to its age, most of the software cannot be used.
Compared with the glamorous system, The e8 also has a hardware design that is easily overlooked.
Its back shell is coated with Softfeel, which is one of the black technologies. The advantage of this material is that it looks very soft and feels first-class on a new phone, but it deteriorates over time and is extremely stained by fingerprints and sweat. Also, the e8 comes with 2g of memory, which is indeed too small at present, but at that time, when less than 100 megabytes was considered a large memory, it provided a lot of space. Although it has 2GB of space, the e8 also supports memory card expansion, which is a perfect match.
Now, using the Motorola e8 mobile phone, you can only make calls using the 2G network. Voice calls are clear and practical. Even if the entertainment mode is turned on, the corresponding music and camera can still be used normally, and the effect is shocking. If I have to say something regrettable, it is that the mobile network of the machine cannot be turned on, which makes it impossible to test things at the software level. This is not the fault of the machine, but the environment is changing too fast, and the network and some software manufacturers have stopped operating. In this way, e8 becomes a pure mobile phone or portable player, which is really overkill.
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