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

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

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