These Motos, those models.

Editor's note: Every change of MOTO in those days represented the trend of mobile phones. Although it was the era of feature phones, we can see the industrial design team behind it. Although smart phones are popular today, apart from the upgrade of configuration, there is no innovation in the appearance of mobile phones. There is no step-by-step footprint from the past, from candy-bar phones to flip phones*** to slider phones.

Motorola has returned to China after two years. I believe many readers have a "motorcycle complex" in their hearts. Since entering China in 1987, Motorola has left many memorable moments in China in the past 28 years. Now, let's recall those "***" of Motorola in China.

The first mobile phone to enter the Chinese market: Motorola 3200

In 1987, Motorola set up an office in Beijing and officially announced its entry into mainland China. The first model it launched was the Motorola 3200, a mobile phone later known as the "big brother". It was priced at more than 20,000 yuan, and it cost thousands of yuan to join the network. It became a symbol of personal status at the time.

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The first flip phone: Motorola 8900

Although the "big brother" is a prestigious mobile phone, it is large and heavy, which is not convenient to carry. In addition, the mobile phone keyboard is not protected, and it is often possible to accidentally touch a key and dial a call when it is placed in a bag. Therefore, Motorola launched the flip phone Motorola 8900 in 1995. It effectively prevents the occurrence of accidental dialing and has become the aristocrat among mobile phones since its birth - this can be reflected in the price of 30,000 to 40,000 yuan.

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The first mobile phone that supports Chinese input: Motorola CD928+

In 1999, Motorola launched the first mobile phone that truly supported Chinese input. The Motorola CD928+ not only allowed Chinese text messages to be edited, but also Chinese names to be entered into the phone book. In the process of Chinese mobile phone localization, the CD928+ can be called the most important milestone.

In addition, the CD928+ has clear call quality and a battery life of more than one week, which is why it was popular among users in that era.

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The first foldable flip phone: Motorola 308c

In the era of candy-bar phones, the appearance of Motorola 308c overturned people's perception of mobile phone appearance for the first time and had a profound impact on mobile phone appearance design. It is a flip phone, weighing only 95g, and its color is also different from the previous mobile phone's "black brick" criticism. It has five colors: red, blue, purple, yellow and gray, making it the first choice of fashion people at that time - it has a friendly name called "palm treasure".

Although flip phones have never appeared since the iPhone, it does not prevent Motorola 308c from leaving a place in the history of mobile phones in China.

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1st smartphone: Motorola A6188

At the end of 1999, Motorola launched a mobile phone called Tiantuo A6188. It uses the Dragon ball EZ 16MHz CPU independently developed by Motorola, supports WAP1.1 wireless Internet access, and uses the PPSM (Personal Portable Systems Manager) operating system. It can be said that it is the ancestor of smart phones. In addition, A6188 is the first mobile phone with a touch screen and the first mobile phone with Chinese handwriting recognition input.

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The first GPRS mobile phone: Motorola A6288

Although the mobile network has developed from 3G to 4G, as early as 2001, most mobile phones only supported 2G (GSM) networks. Motorola A6288 was the first mobile phone to support GPRS, and it was also a dual-mode mobile phone that supported both GSM and GPRS. In addition, it was also the first mobile phone to support GPRS and JAVA functions. With powerful email functions combined with convenient handwriting input, A6288 can be called the prototype of PDA mobile phones.

GPRS is developed on the basis of GSM, and has the advantages of always online, high-speed transmission, and payment by data volume. The transmission speed of GPRS can reach 115k/s, which is 10 times the previous mobile phone Internet speed, and it supports sending and receiving emails without affecting calls. It is a technology between the second-generation digital communication and the third-generation packet-based mobile service, so it is usually called 2.5G.

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The first CDMA phone with separate card and phone: Motorola V8060

Since its birth, CDMA has had the advantages of good anti-interference performance, high call quality, low mobile phone radiation, confidentiality and security, but the inability to separate the phone and the card has become a bottleneck restricting the development of CDMA. The Motorola V8060, which was launched in 2002, is China's first CDMA mobile phone with a separate phone and card. It has accelerated the development of CDMA mobile phones in China, and it can be said that it has also accelerated the development of China Unicom's CDMA.

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***Entrepreneur Advertising Spokesperson: Wang Shi

In 2001, when Motorola launched the first GPRS-supported mobile phone A6288 in China, it invited Wang Shi, chairman of Vanke Group, to be the spokesperson for the phone. At that time, the marketing appeal of A6288 was "business and sports", and Wang Shi loved extreme sports such as mountaineering and gliding. Therefore, according to Wang Shi, the cooperation between the two parties was a perfect match. All of Wang Shi's advertising revenue was donated to the national mountaineering team he supported.

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Here is the ad video from that year: