Browsing the sites of Brando Workshop I stumbled across the ‘CT-6618′. It’s a pretty standard Chinese-Touchscreen-Phone, but it has some notable exceptions.
Even if it’s priced high compared to the other anonymous Chinese phones, compared to known brands it’s very, VERY cheap. However, if it’s reliable enough to last for 6 months, it would definitely be worth its money, given its features.
Read on for the low-down:
Remember the Dick Tracy comic? The protagonist back then had one of the coolest gizmos around (if you discount Inspector Gadget who got the whole gizmo wizardry thing going) - a cellphone built into a wristwatch. For the benefit of our younger readers, cellphones weren’t something that was always around. They just started to make an appearance commercially in the 80s, where the user had to lug around a large transmitter wherever they went. Cellphones also came in a large form factor that could probably fit around 10 Motorola RAZRs inside. Gadgets maven Brando has made available the M300 wristwatch cellphone for all and sundry, so let us take a look at what this handset has to offer.
Cellphones are pretty much a double-edged sword when it comes to communication, but sometimes people around tend to abuse this communications tool at the most inappropriate moments. You still see idiots yakking away at the cinema or library, while others pay the dead no respect, letting their latest Akon ringtone drown out the funeral band’s rendition of “Amazing Grace”. The Cell Phoney is one device that would have such folks scrambling for their handsets - only if it came out during the early days of mono ringtones. I suppose this $9.99 device is seen as outdated, since lacks support for polyphonic and MP3 ringtones. It ought to do well in developing nations where there are still plenty of mono ringtone handsets being circulated.
I do know that plenty of portable media players from China and Taiwan (those generic models that come with different names) do ship with an NES emulator that let’s you play hundreds of gaming classics from the 8-bit era, but most of the time the processor in those portable media players aren’t up to snuff, and your Mario will probably suffer from lag as well as dropped sounds. Heck, I’ve even seen him enter a transparent pipe before due to poor coding! The latest device to ship with an NES emulator is not a portable media player but a cellphone instead.
When Nintendo first announced that their Wii console will come with motion sensitive controls, many people put it down as a gimmick. In hindsight, that was a pretty foolish thing to do considering how the Wii is doing gangbusters in terms of sales all over the world. NTT DoCoMo of Japan has studied the Wii closely and will incorporate gesture recognition technology into a couple of cellphones under the FOMA 904i line.
I consider myself a person that likes to have the latest and greatest cell phone, the one with all the unnecessary, under developed features that sound so good on paper but don’t quite work that well once you try them out. When I first get that shiny, expensive new phone, I take good care of it for at least a month or two. After that, the scratches start to appear, little screws I never knew existed start falling off, and, eventually, the a button or two stops functioning altogether. You might think I take bad care of my phone, but some people are much worse. For those people, there’s the indestructible Sonim XP1. You’d really have to try to break this phone. Really.
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Does the picture to the left entice you? Classic domino numbers with letters underneath? A sleek-looking keyboard with a beautiful backlight?
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You just gotta love these phones from China that seem to come packed in the quirkiest of designs and names. Gadget mavens Brando is now offering the TV Phone V10 (the latter part which sounds more like a highly desirable car engine specification than anything else) - a cellphone that comes with a built-in TV tuner for you to catch up on your favorite soap operas no matter where you are at the moment. Of course, it need not be stressed that the picture quality that you get depends on the reception, but the general idea is more or less there - you get to catch up on your TV even when you’re out of the living room.
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