Fujitsu prototype flip phone breaks...on purpose
Fujitsu and NTT DoCoMo are showing off this prototype keitai handset at the CEATEC 2008 trade show. The "Separeeto Keitai" looks like a normal keitai flip phone, but give the keypad a tug and it sunders cleanly from its magnetic hinge. Then sensors determine the keypad's orientation and contextually change the input interface, making it possible to make a phone call with the top while writing emails with the other half.
Of course you could also do this simply by wearing a Bluetooth headset, but where's the fun in that?
[CEATEC] DoCoMo's Handset Breaks Into 2 Parts, Used Separately [Video] [NikkeiBP.co.jp via CrunchGear]
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So it's on Magnets?
I predict loosing parts of the phone and loose change sticking to it.
Do the healing power of magnets negate the effects of cell phones impairing sperm mobility?
Also, what happens to my credit cards when I carry my wallet in my front pocket with my phone?
If I'm remembering MythBusters correctly, you need either a really freaking huge magnet or an AC field to demagnetize a credit card.
Thats pretty cool but i dont think id buy one seems kind of unnessesary
Dear weeaboo:
No one gives a shit if you know the Japanese word for cellphone. Using it makes you look like a giant tool. So does living in Brooklyn.
Fuck you.
Signed,
The Internet
I'm of the opinion that Joel was recognising that the Japanese mobile phone really is a genre in and of itself: many of them aren't really seen elsewhere, and I think there's even a look to them not really seen elsewhere. Hence 'keitai'.
The important thing is, will it let you morph into an armored warrior to fight monsters?
Actually there are several Very Good Reasons for such a hinge. Beginning with it potentially eliminating destructive failure modes. Ordinary hinges and sliders are overly prone to such decease.
How many slide/hinge device failures have you had or seen? This magnetic deal makes all that carnage history.
With the inherent equal advantage of field swappable configurations. As in- if both halves have memory one could snap halves of multiple phones together for an autosync of data stores. In a mode which keeps data from being externally accessible.
This concept has some potentials way beyond first glance appearances.
@Vodka - Apparently you care.
Two points:
the japanese for cell phone is keitai denwa (携帯電話), not just keitai (strictly speaking - I know that keitai is perfectly understandable)
Vodka is not "The Internet", but he or she is certainly grumpy.
>Dear weeaboo:
Please go back to 4chan, you're just embarrassing yourself.
Also, learn what weeaboo really means before you start tossing it around. PROTIP: Joel clearly isn't one.