A grainy shot of a new kind of phone is doing the rounds of the Internet. It claims to be images of the next big phone form Motorola — the MOTOSPLIT. If it is indeed genuine, then the name is quite suitable. That is because this an very different form factor that requires the phone to have three separate parts joined together. It is a new kind of slider that has a full QWERTY keypad sliced in half and added onto either side of a screen in landscape orientation. They are stowed away under the screen and can be pulled out on wither sides, making this one wide phone!
This photo was sent to poplar tech blog Engadget and was tipped to be a phone that was in development solely for AT&T. This split QWERTY keypad design bearing phone is said to be coming Q3 this year, which means there is still a lot of time for this thing to vaporize or change altogether. Specifications are more or less unknown at this point, except on specifically delicious little morsel — it will be running on the 1GHz ARM designed processor called SnapDragon manufactured by Qualcomm. I would like to remind you that the Motorola has already used this chip once before in their Droid handset and Google’s Nexus One (manufactured by HTC) also has this processor inside it.
The image is obviously a grainy screenshot of a render and not of the actual thing. So do not set your hopes on the phone looking this sleek. Although, judging from the hideous RAZR and its various spin-offs — Motorola has good experience in making slim phones, if nothing else.
The design seen in the image is reminiscent of the Droid’s screen and keypad design but the overall profile is much slimmer. The SnapDragon processor is proving to be a darling of the industry and every high-end phone from this point forth is likely to have it or some upgraded version of it. Unless of course some other company comes up with something faster (or cheaper at the same speed).
The phone is expected to run the Android OS, which is currently the safest bet for all smartphone makers. Windows Mobile is currently a joke in the face of the iPhone and Google’s latest Android seems to have at least come close to iPhone’s brilliance. Of course, as the world awaits iPhone OS 4.0, there;s no telling what new something Apple will bring to counter the rising competition who have already exhausted their arsenal for the moment.
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