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Atom sent along this cool concept video for an Apple cellphone called 'iTalk.' Would you buy one of these?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Brutal said 2:36PM on 3-30-2006
Hmmm... I'm not sure I liked it at all. I would like me a folding cellphone, but not like THAT.
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Sean Finn said 2:37PM on 3-30-2006
Hell yeah I'd buy one of those. My only potential issue would be how to open it quickly - it looks like it would take 2 hands to do so since the 2 flip parts would collapse on your holding hand.
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JZ said 2:37PM on 3-30-2006
Gimme gimme gimme!!!
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i hope you get cancer™ said 2:38PM on 3-30-2006
YES oh god YES YES!
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Gibby said 2:41PM on 3-30-2006
ok, that is HAWT!!!
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David said 2:42PM on 3-30-2006
I will take 2...where do i sign?
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Jer said 2:42PM on 3-30-2006
Are you kidding? Sure I'd buy a cell phone that not only floats but opens itself!
Bonus points if it recharged itself from body heat...
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murf said 2:43PM on 3-30-2006
uh, YES!!!!
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Axel said 2:45PM on 3-30-2006
freaking awsome
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Derek said 2:52PM on 3-30-2006
Come on, who wouldn't. That phone would destroy any HTC out there, windows mobile 5? ha OSM. hmmm what would they call that OS?
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dave said 2:54PM on 3-30-2006
Slick, well-made video. However, there are one too many hinges on the proposed iTalk for it to be anything more than a flight of fancy.
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Kyp said 2:55PM on 3-30-2006
That is the coolest fake iProduct I've ever seen. Phone/Camera/iPod/Video all in a slick design. Did you notice how the touch wheel could flip and make the device work like a normal iPod? Makes me sad that it's not real.
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Paul said 2:57PM on 3-30-2006
The industrial design element of it is horrible. Apple is about simplicity. The company will eventually have the iPhone, but I think it'll be similar to one of it's ipods, and I presume that they'll want to take a whole different approach to telephony, so don't forget to consider that it may ONLY be a voip phone, considering that in a few years voip will be hot on the tail of traditional cellular services. It's all about cost cutting. Verizon, Cingular and the rest of 'em probably have divisions assembled to develop an addition/backup/replacement for their networks. fiber+wimax will be the backbone for 2010 and on.
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fredrik said 3:01PM on 3-30-2006
Definitely not. I would buy a nano with a little larger, finger controlled screen (that shows the numbers when used as a phone), but still the ordinary click-wheel. Mic and speaker on the backside. Simple and clean. Above is just stupid.
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Simon P said 3:09PM on 3-30-2006
Slick...but a fake. Whoever made it certainly had a sense of humour, just listen to the song lyrics. And the video clip playing on the phone is of Audrey Hepburn in the film My Fair Lady, where a commoner is taught to fake being upper class.
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Tommy said 3:11PM on 3-30-2006
If the panels that turn lock in at 0, 180 and 360 degrees it could work as a videophone and movie player as well. Pretty cool I think.
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Oz said 3:13PM on 3-30-2006
GimmegimmeGimmegimmeGimmegimmeGimme........sorry folks, this may take me a while.......GimmegimmeGimmegimmeGimmegimmeGimmegimme.......I want on of these soooo badly....GimmegimmeGimmegimme.............as long as it doesn't have a camera it will be perfect!
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Kristen said 3:25PM on 3-30-2006
My favourite part was the use of Zero 7 as the music. Nobody wants a flip phone with two flips that takes two hands to open. I'd probably still buy one, but only because I'm a fangirl.
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bakeem lloyd said 3:26PM on 3-30-2006
do the words hell and yes mean anything to you?
however that is completely a fake. even the cheeky use of zero 7's "in the waiting line" is classic. here's the chorus again kids:
Do you believe/ In what you see
Motionless wheel/ Nothing is real
Wasting my time/ In the waiting line
Do you believe in /What you see
but that is hot. i would buy 2 of them just to video phone chat with myself chatting with myself...
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CArringt said 3:38PM on 3-30-2006
oh my god how beautiful!!!!!
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