New “stoplight” phone design will, in fact, drive you batty
Written by admin on February 7th, 2008 in gadgets.
While we can all appreciate someone (Toshiba) trying to break the norm, there are some things that just don’t make any sense. The phone in question is the Toshiba G450 due to arrive in the UK next month for a whopping $300. Even a four year old could tell you dialing on this thing is going to be dicey.
Two round number pads to get all 10 numbers seems a bit far fetched. The tiny screen, though it is sweet OLED, is only 96×39. Those small features add up to only 57 grams.
The phone, to its credit, can be used as an USB modem, storage device (160MB), Mp3 player and if you can figure out the number pad system: a phone. Genius!
Maybe in the UK, a modem that is also a phone is appealing? Any UK readers care to help out a yankee to make some sense of this? Or perhaps, this is more fall out from Toshiba downward spiral (see: HD-DVD)
Press release: [Toshiba] via [OhGizmo!]
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