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Motorola Unveils Phone That Bends

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the flexible-communications dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to CNET, who are out at 3GSM in Barcelona, Motorola has unveiled a phone that bends in order to make putting it up to your face more comfortable. The Motorola Z8, as the bendy phone is called, runs on a Symbian based platform and also displays video at up to 30 frames per second."

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  1. About time by iamacat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Usually it's users who have to bend over for cell companies.

  2. Wow! It does all that? by ArcherB · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can you make phone calls with it?

    (Yo dog! Where you at?!!?)

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  3. beaten to the punch by President_Camacho · · Score: 4, Funny

    Motorola has unveiled a phone that bends in order to make putting it up to your face more comfortable.
    I can already accomplish "kick & slide" functionality with my treo 650. Which is usually what I want to do when it crashes.
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  4. What else can they get to bend? by Radon360 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now if they can only make it bend the RF signal over that damned hill in front of the cell tower...

  5. Hmm by Lithdren · · Score: 5, Funny

    if this thing has an option to vibrate, instead of ring, they got a winner on their hands! What? Why are you looking at me like that..

    1. Re:Hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      that would be the Motorola Sybian based phone

  6. The Eclectic Slide by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 2, Funny

    Taking a lesson from Sony, Motorola has declared this phone the winner in the bendy-slider phone format. In addition, remarked a Motorola talking-head, "we were going to call it the 'Eclectic Slide', but were afraid we'd get sued by Richard Silver".

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  7. Bullies by yintercept · · Score: 2, Funny

    The were several bullies at the school that I attended; So, I developed a face that bends.

  8. Re:Ok..ya know....that was harsh... by Feanturi · · Score: 2, Funny

    The phone that conforms to your face! ...with 4 microphones like the others have, plus a 5th mic for those hard-to-hear conversations.

  9. Re:Nice Astroturfing by rossifer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yawn.
    Indeed.

    The only thing that might be newsworthy about a Motorola phone is if they decided to license Nokia's interface. Every time I think back to the last (so far only) Motorola phone I had the misfortune of spending a fortune on, I recall the glee and joy when I smeared that phone between a rapidly dropping 20 pound sledgehammer and a large granite boulder at midnight under the full moon...

    My rage and fury were all about the absolutely horrific user interface. Yes, it was that bad.

    The beer consumed in preparation for the demolition of the hell spawn (Mot 770) was rather tasty, however :)

    Ross
  10. Kinkyphone! by mrbluze · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, kinky! A bendy phone that runs on a syb.. oh, a symbian! nevermind!

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  11. Kiss my shiney plastic... by straponego · · Score: 4, Funny

    Man, I want a bender phone. One you can bend to any angle: 30 degrees, 32 degrees, you name it. 31...