If you’re the kind of person who is always losing your phone around the house, perhaps you’d better give the Modu T a miss.
Billed as the ‘world’s lightest touchscreen phone’, the Modu T looks set for a life of slipping behind sofas and dropping behind kitchen units, with its credit card-like dimensions inviting loseability.
Jackets on
Perhaps we’re being a bit unfair here as it’s clearly quite a technical achievement, with the bijou wonder packing a 1.3-inch OLED screen and 2GB of memory, a widget-based touch interface, and the ability to shimmy into various feature-boosting ‘jackets.’
These jackets can add the functionality of a full digital camera, photo frame, music player etc or allow the phone to link up with a desktop PC.
We’re not entirely sure that this ‘jacket’ idea is a good one, especially as the handset runs a proprietary operating system rather than something more mainstream like Android, but if you’re liking the look of this wee fella, it’s set for a Q4 release with pricing to be announced.
Modu also arriving soonish. Possibly.
Modu ave also announced their Modu handset which is another jacket-donning affair – check out their gallery of official press pics here. We’re assuming this one hasn’t got a touchscreen.
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The concept is very appealing. I find it a very refreshing idea that the phone can be inserted into various modules and the function changes completely without losing the basic phone function.
Whatever happened to the partnerships with Universal and Magellan?
I hope the idea gets picked up by others or is continued by the developer in the coming years. Keep the phone unit as basic as possible, with peripherals doing the specific functions, less wear ad tear, if I may say so.