Today we got something completely different.
Coming up are five of ,probably, the weirdest smartphones you have ever seen
in your entire life. And just before we get right into it,
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The first phone is the
Changhong H2 and aside from being terribly named,
it has a real ace up it's sleeve.
The phone packs a near infrared spectrometer,
which allows it to shine a specialised beam of light
that can penetrate objects and bounce off certain molecules,
and essentially that means the smartphone is gonna know
what you are pointing it at.
It can differentiate between sugars and fats,
proteins and carbohydrates, even pills you are given over the counter.
What that means is you could use it to essentially tell
if the pill you have been given is fake or if it actually contains
the ingredients it says it does. You could tell without tasting any of them,
which apple in your fruit bowl has the most sugar content in it.
You could even, for example, use it on your self
to be able to predict your own body fat percentage.
So, these aren't like life changing features, its probably not gonna be
in any flagship phone next year, but it is a pretty cool thing nonetheless.
The next phone, to derive from the word simple ,
is the Siempo smartphone, and to be honest
it is a completely ridiculous, but at the same time intriguing idea,
it is a smartphone that is less smart.
So what the company's done is built a phone, and actually a pretty decent
mid-range phone at that, on an android operating system.
They have then cut down all the features including playstore
and limited you to a very small selection of
applications. But why would they do this?
Well, the idea came about when the now CEO was on a
hike and he was trapped there with a feature phone,
and whilst it was annoying after a bit, having moved from a
smartphone to a feature phone, he soon realised that it allowed him to
enjoy what was around him much more,
and he decided why not make a smartphone,
which has the capabilities of an android device
like Bluetooth , like NFC, like a really good internet browser,
but at the same time one which doesn't distracts you from the things and people
around you. So, I guess there's a certain
audience who might appreciate a device like this, people who want to
reconnect with lost friends and family, but at the same time
it's definitely again not gonna be the next Galaxy S9.
Interestingly enough, the phone is also managed to ditch the front camera
which isn't a mistake, the phone is focusing,
as you can probably tell, on people who want to self improve
themself and by not having a front camera on the phone
it's trying to make people become a little bit less vain. For people to
basically stop checking themselves out
every ten minutes. Number 3 is the
Runcible. It's made by a
group of ex-apple employees and they're basically fed
up with convention. What they decided to do
probably went a little bit too far the other way. These
guys decided it will be a great idea to design a circular
smartphone. So this smartphone, if you turn it over, is made of
Californian Hardwood and is meant to be a fusion of tech
and nature. Now the wood is all sustainably sourced
and the company is very proud of how they have done less damage
than they prepared. But doesnt make sense as a phone.
Well, to be honest, as soon as this phone hit indiegogo,
fund funding flew through the roof.
Having said that, pretty much a couple of weeks after it's release day, people started to
realise it doesnt really make much sense.
Because essentially they have crammed a 2.5 inch
circular diaplay onto the phone which is still impossibe
to use with one hand. Also considering it is a
500 Dollar smartphone, it has some pretty meagre
specifications. We got one, I repeat
1 gigabyte of RAM and the Snapdragon 410,
which is a CPU from 2015 and only
a mid-range one at that. The fourth one is the CAT S
60, which is again an incredibly niche kinda smartphone
because located just above the rear camera is a
thermal imaging sensor and to be honest, that's
a technology that we don't really see under many tech
products less than a 1000 Pounds, so seeing on a smartphone
that cost half of that, was kind of impressive
It also did it job pretty well. The phone was praised quite highly
for being able to detect the temperature of every object
within a couple of degrees of accuracy. Why would you want that?
Well, for example, if you are going hiking it allows you to see the
outline of animals in the dark. You could detect
how hot your tea is before you touch it, you could check how hot your stove
is when you are baking, you can even actually figure out why
you have blockages in your pipes. However, cool as the
technology is, the average consumer clearly doesn't need it.
For an industrial worker, someone who works
in plumbing and all these sorts of things on a regular basis, could be the perfect
device. Because it is also rugged, splash-proof and drop-proof
But as you probably guessed, it wasn't a commercial success.
Rolling in on number 5,
we got the Akyumen Holofone.
Again, terribly named device,
but it is actually an impressive phone in quite a lot of ways.
You will notice straightaway when you glance at the spec sheet, this is
a really media focused device, it's got 128
gigabytes of internal storage, with room for MicroSD
card as well. It's got a large 3,500 mAh
battery and a 7 inch display, which is almost unheard of.
But the really important thing, the real thing that makes this such a unique phone
is this giant bump at the back of it, which houses an
in-built projector. And surprisingly, considering it's size
this is an HD projector. It's got a resolution of
720p. The only problem is the bulb, as
you imagined, is absolutely tiny.
So it is only capable of producing a light output of 35 lumens.
So unless you are in absolute optimum conditions,
more or less pitch black to be honest,
you are not gonna be able to see very much at all. What is cool there and something
I would like to see on most smartphones in the future is, it runs on
Intel Atom processor and that allows it to dual
boot both android and Windows 10.
So, that was the list of smartphones. I really hope you enjoyed the video,
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