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Motorola Unveils Phone That Bends
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."
Usually it's users who have to bend over for cell companies.
Yawn.
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There are some better pictures at engaget:
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http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/motorolas-moto
Can you make phone calls with it?
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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.
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Now if they can only make it bend the RF signal over that damned hill in front of the cell tower...
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..
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".
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
The were several bullies at the school that I attended; So, I developed a face that bends.
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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The phone that conforms to your face! ...with 4 microphones like the others have, plus a 5th mic for those hard-to-hear conversations.
I wonder how much Verizon will charge to enable the "bend" feature.
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Wow, kinky! A bendy phone that runs on a syb.. oh, a symbian! nevermind!
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I would personally like to hear some explanation of it. The hardware in a Moto phone is no slouch compared to its competitors, so why is it that I get a very very annoying delay every time I hit a button? It seriously hinders the usability of their phones, and this problem has existed for YEARS without a fix. Every time I use my friend's Sony-Ericsson phone I am continually amazed at how responsive it is.
C'mon Motorola, what gives?
Man, I want a bender phone. One you can bend to any angle: 30 degrees, 32 degrees, you name it. 31...