The Tiniest Cell Phone Ever (We Hope)
Posted by Emru Townsend | Monday, September 25, 2006 4:54 PM PT
When it comes to
hard drives,
cameras and
MP3 players, the trend is to go for tiny, thin or both. So far, companies have managed to stay just barely on this side of absurd -- until now.
A Chinese company has created the
Xun Chi 138, which is probably the world's smallest cell phone this side of a Bratz figure's purse. At under 3 inches in length, this phone (whose only remarkable extra is a 1.3-megapixel camera) would easily be lost in the average purse/knapsack/pocket/cereal bowl, which explains why a stylus and touch-sensitive screen are necessary to use the thing. I'd expect they'd also include a magnifying glass for reading the text and a tweezers for when you drop the phone in a hard-to-reach spot behind the toaster. It's not a sure thing that there are any plans for a non-Chinese version, and I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not.
Considering the way it was built by the Chinese,I don't think it will be commercially successful if it were to be sold internationally for one thing:Quality wise,chinese made Electronic products are not that as stringently inspected as their European and American counterparts and the technology that goes into binding together a cell phone and with a 3 megapixel at that into one tiny box,There are questions that are still to be answered yet.....
If it is Bluetooth enabled, this is great. Shove it in a zipped pocket with the Prius Keyfob and you never need to reach into the pocket.
An RFID credit card as well and you're set for life !