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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. Nice Astroturfing by QuantumG · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yawn.

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  2. And the point is? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The phone is a slider. All I see here is a slider made to emulate the bend of your everyday flip phone. If you notice, it has about the same bend that a RAZR does when open.

    Seriously though, what exactly is the point? It's not as if getting the microphone 1 centimeter closer to your face will make much of a difference, and for people with oily skin it just makes more of the phone get dirty. I see absolutely no functional value whatsoever in making a slide-phone bendy.

    1. Re:And the point is? by LihTox · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Seriously though, what exactly is the point? It's not as if getting the microphone 1 centimeter closer to your face will make much of a difference

      Psychologically speaking, putting the microphone closer to the mouth might convince some people that they don't have to shout into the phone.

  3. Here's an R&D Breakthrough, Motorola! by rtblmyazz · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If Motorola could make a phone that doesn't drop every other call or have the OS not lag behind keystrokes or crash I'd be impressed. I've stuck with Motorola for the past ten years based on their performance back in the "good old days" of analog cell phones. I've been continually disappointed. I'm using my last Motorola phone. Thanks for producing shiny garbage, Motorola, you're not getting any more money out of me.

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  4. Verizon will diable the bend. by KodaK · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wonder how much Verizon will charge to enable the "bend" feature.

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  5. Flip phones by ksattic · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Flip phones already "bend" in the middle to fit your face, just as this phone "bends".

  6. Re:Better pictures by maxume · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do you pivot your elbow? Or maybe you articulate it?

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