When it comes to mobile phones twenty years ago, many people will think of small color screen machines, most of which are around 2.0 inches. But at that time, Motorola launched a shocking large-screen smartphone, which directly subverted many users' understanding of mobile phones.
It is the Motorola E680, which was first released in 2004 and uses a 2.4-inch QVGA screen on the front with a resolution of 320x240. Now look at this screen is very small, but in those days it was definitely a king-like existence, with realplayer and other player software to watch movies, directly kill a large number of MP4 players.
The most talked-about thing is its gaming performance. Since Motorola E680 uses Linux system, you can install mpkg software freely, not only can install GBA, SFC and other emulators, but also can run relatively large mobile games, and you can also eat all JAVA games.
What impressed me the most back then was that when many people were still playing Snake with Nokia, some classmates used Motorola E680 to play mahjong, and even played The King of Fighters 97. If you count the games of the GBA, then the Motorola E680 is simply a simulation god machine, like "Golden Sun", "Mario Kart", "Final Fantasy" and other super masterpieces have all been won, 365 days are not the same.
The most important thing is that Motorola E680 has a four-dimensional arrow key on the left side, and two separate buttons on the right side, which can be mapped to the arrow keys and AB keys of the GBA handheld, plus the 4:3 ratio of the screen is the same as that of GBA, which is definitely the perfect replacement for GBA.
Now that so many years have passed, there is still a feeling of excitement when I see the Motorola E680 again. However, in retrospect, the body weight of the Motorola E680 at that time was 133 grams, while most mobile phones weighed only 90-110 grams, and many people said that it was too heavy. Today, 20 years later, any smartphone weighs about 200 grams, and no one thinks it is heavy, which is the cognitive change brought about by technological progress.