A USA based handset retailer has designed a GSM handset that is in the shape of the infamous UK public telephone box. But why make a cell phone that looks like a phone booth? Well, C&D Wireless, say that they don't like conformity. When they started their company in 2004, they took a look around at many of the phones on the market, and said that they were reminded of Henry Ford's famous quote - "You can have your Model T in any color you like, as long as it's black."
Maybe it's not quite that bad - you have choices when it comes to mobile phones: candybars, or clamshells. Colors? Sure - there's silver, with a touch of black. Or maybe you'd like your phone in black, with a dash of silver. Shiny pretty things with no soul.
Matthew McNear, founder of C&D Wireless said "he London Calling mobile phone was an idea I had while driving down the road. Maybe I had heard a story about how, with the advent of cell phones, those familiar English telephone boxes were rapidly disappearing, and thought how ironic it would be if you combined those two ideas. How you could preserve the classic phone box design in the very object that is responsible for its disappearance."
This phone is an unlocked GSM tri-band telephone with VGA camera. It features a 65k color TFT screen, full SMS and MMS functionality, polyphonic ringtones, and GPRS/WAP 2.0. You can set your wallpaper to display one of fifteen different iconic images from merry old England. Plus you can select from Rule Britannia, God Save the Queen, or one of twenty other ringtone melodies. London Calling measures 102mm by 43mm by 21 mm, and weighs approximately 100 grams."
Posted to the site on 10th March 2006
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