A Mobile Phone Which Monitors Your Heart

China's Qiao Xing Mobile, through its subsidiary CEC Telecom has announced the launch of its new C7000A cardiograph mobile handset - a mobile phone which can monitor your heart, if such things concern you.

The C7000A has the following features:

• Cardiograph function -- Users will be able to perform a basic cardiograph, which they can send to doctors via MMS through a GPRS network. Doctors will then be able to provide medical advice by sending a text message back to the mobile phone. If there is a serious problem, doctors can call the patient directly.
• Ultra-Long standby time -- The handset can run for over 120 days in standby mode without a recharge
• Large LCD -- The handset offers a 3.0 inch LCD screen

CECT has supplied an initial 200 trial units of the C7000A mobile handset to The People's Insurance Company (Group) of China, which plans to provide the handset as a gift to its VIP customers.

According to Mr. Wu Zhi Yang, Chairman of Qiao Xing Mobile, "We dedicate a large amount of resources to our efforts to develop highly differentiated handsets. The C7000A is a result of these efforts. It represents a breakthrough in the use of mobile handset technology. No longer are handsets only tools for entertainment and communication. We have been able to incorporate a piece of advanced medical technology that could possibly save lives. It is this kind of differentiating handset feature that we continually strive to offer to our customers in China."

It wasn't clear from their statement as to how the cardiograph data is collected though.

Posted to the site on 29th February 2008