Wang's "King of Cigarettes" Cellphone

There is a certain kind of scotch that owners of Wang's King of Cigarettes XYW3838 should drink. Orange. Acrid. $10 a bottle. Details are available to the provincial westerner only through machine trans, but it seems to perfectly encapsulate the good taste behind this exemplar of Chinese industrial design.

Just look at it. ... Because of its shape, like a real cigarette case, the thickness of the fuselage reaches 24mm. ... that secret hiding place, so that users can place a few cigarettes, just like a real cigarette case. The use of inconvenience.

In addition to its obvious dual function of containing tobacco and making calls, the King of Cigarettes has a camera, a microSD expansion card slot and English language support. It is $1,380, but I'm not sure in whose dollars.

Source (trans) [28phone via DVICE(down)]

[#1 posted by Isaac Cates , October 21, 2008 7:59 AM]

I am all for the use of convenience, at least in principle. But yuck.

[#2 posted by BuildUupBuzzKill , October 21, 2008 8:44 AM]

one of the coolest things i have ever seen, EVER SEEN!

[#3 posted by Not a Doktor , October 21, 2008 12:40 PM]

A different looking cig-box phone was posted a while ago

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/03/25/chinese-cigarette-ph.html

[#4 posted by Anonymous , October 21, 2008 2:25 PM]

That's a Hong Kong website so likely the price is in HK$.

[#5 posted by Rob Beschizza , October 21, 2008 9:58 PM]

Joel's one is much classier than mine.

[#6 posted by Not a Doktor , October 22, 2008 12:48 AM]

I like the red&gold and the more nokia looking center direction pad.

For a while I've wanted to import a novelty phone (for about $150 USd), use it as an ice breaker at nights, then switch to my nokia 5300 during the day (unless it's better). This looks good but obviously no real import option since it's a review site and it's only triband (and probably not english judging by the buttons). I guess my hunt for cig phone will continue.

[#7 posted by Anonymous , October 22, 2008 8:55 AM]

Does it have a built-in lighter? If not, it certainly should!

[#8 posted by MouthyAmerican , October 22, 2008 9:47 AM]

Wahahahaa! I saw what must have been a knock-off of one a these in a back-alley used phone shop in Galway (where one could sell a phone they had "found," no questions asked) for something to the tune of 100 euro.

This oddly reminds me of that urban legend about mobiles giving you cancer...?

[#9 posted by Catmother , October 22, 2008 12:25 PM]

Pssh. My cell phone (from South Korea) comes with a lighter, rubber tubing and a clean syringe.

[#10 posted by Catmother , October 22, 2008 12:47 PM]

This was lazy and schlocky in retrospect.