Motorola phones, old models: remember the past

Surely many readers will now remember what an excitement in zero was around Motorola phones. The manufacturer was pleased not only with the functionality, but also with the unusual design of almost every model. Let's remember about the corporation "Moto", let's see what became of it now, and, of course, ponostalgiruem above a selection of the "coolest" devices. Motorola phone, old models, photos are waiting for you in this article.

Moto Corporation

The company was founded in 1928 by the Galvin brothers in the United States. The name she received due to one of her first products - the Motorola autodetector (moto - motor, ola - radiola). In the fifties of the last century, the emblem was developed in the form of bat wings, which made Motorola phones (old models) so recognizable. But it's all afterwards.

Success and sunset

In 1956 the company released the world's first pager, and in 1983 - the first commercial mobile phone in the history of mankind.

But in the 2000s the production of mobile phones became unprofitable for the corporation. In 2011, Google bought out Motorola Mobility for 12.5 billion dollars.

And now what?

We remember Motorola phones - the old models of the company. But the electronic company in 2016 released a new line of models already smartphones Moto. True, under the protectorate of Lenovo. See them on the shelves of Moscow stores could be from March 2016.

Cell phone Motorola. Older models

It's time to plunge into nostalgia - consider the ten most legendary phones of the company:

1. StarTAC. Mentioning about the phones of Motorola, the old models, it's impossible not to say about it - the embodiment of communication devices from the cult Star Track into reality. And at the same time this is the first phone in the world - a "clamshell", and the first mobile with a vibration. It was released in 1996.
2. RAZR V3. At the beginning of the zero "Motorraiser" was the face of the corporation, an indicator of style. From the fact that the body of the device was metal, and he himself was incredibly thin for those times, the "clamshell" was nicknamed Razor - a razor. The phone had an internal and external display, a camera, Bluetooth and only 7 MB of memory.
3. ROKR E1, E398. The most "music phones" - they had dedicated buttons of a music player, powerful stereo speakers, light-music - flashing LEDs in time with the composition, and, according to some information, iTunes. There was also a slot for "flash drives".
4. V70. The first phone with a design "rotator" - to get to the keyboard, the phone's body had to be twisted. It could rotate not only backward-forward, but also 360 degrees. An interesting feature was the round design of the monochrome screen.
5. AURA. Even just look at this device - get aesthetic pleasure. A metal phone with the same design "rotator" had this time a really round color screen. And if you turn the device "rear", you could see through a special window scrupulously executed gears of the rotator mechanism.
6. ROCR E8. If you look at all Motorola phones, old models, then it is the first with a "landscape" screen orientation. The second feature was the keyboard - in normal mode it was shone with standard keys, and for the photo mode and the player, the icons required only for their interface were lit.
7. MPx200. In each model, the corporation tried to invest something unusual. This also did not become an exception - the "clamshell" could open both vertically and horizontally. And this model has already been equipped with a sensor resistive display.
8. MING a1200. In the kit to the resistive touch screen of this model was a stylus. But the most interesting moment was the transparent cover of the device, in which the developers placed the speaker.
9. RIZR Z8. The laconic device is black with acidic green inserts. This time the shape of the "slider" but with the "taste of Motorola" - in the open position the phone was not straight, but curved in the shape of a banana for a more convenient "attachment" to the head during a conversation.
10. Milestone DROID. It was a metal slider with a side "quarti" keyboard, which had a huge diagonal for 2009 - 3.7 inches.

We hope that you have learned something new and interesting about Motorola phones, the old models of the company.