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Credit-card phone fits in your wallet
Wallet fully loaded? Let's see: Visa, American Express, MasterCard, cellphone…
Yup, its a phone the size of a credit card, only 0.58mm thin (less than a quarter inch, about the width of three credit cards) and weighs just 1.3 ounces. Appropriately it's from a company called Real Phone Card.
As you can see, an advertising message can be printed on the phone's face. Spec-wise, it's a dual band GSM GPRS, comes with either a color or monochrome screen, gets around 200 minutes of talk time, and there are canned text messages included. You dial it by navigating an onscreen dialpad, but it also has built-in voice dialing, which happens to be language independent. Plus it's waterproof.
Available in June or July, the Phone Card will hit India first, then maybe the U.S.
By CowboyDren at 1:19 PM ON 04/03/09
Do you mean, "5.8mm" thick?
By David at 3:52 PM ON 04/04/09
Ahh metrication the salvation of the world. Pity no one really knows what the numbers mean, is it cm or mm or perhaps Km or could it be Kg, better rely on credit-cards and inches.
By Aloof Kid at 12:06 PM ON 04/05/09
By Lars at 6:54 PM ON 04/07/09
Now this is awesome! I really really wish there were more compact cell-phones available (in the US), instead of all phones having to do everything. I just need a keypad and a small 2-line screen for caller-ID/phonebook. People are always walking around with bluetooth headsets plus the phone in their pocket, and I'm thinking "why can't the bluetooth headset just be the phone?"
By Steve-o at 4:04 PM ON 04/11/09
Thickness: 6mm, or 0.23 inches. Stupid outdated Imperial system; can never get a round number in it or do any useful calculation.
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