A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a phone that does not exist

This heavily customized Sony Xperia X1 was spotted in the execrable TV remake of Knight Rider. I love the font (Eurostile Condensed/Next, or clone thereof), and I love the idea of "CALL IGNORED" as a standard system message. [Gizmodo]

[#1 posted by claud9999 , January 23, 2009 8:14 AM]

Hmm, if this was a paid placement, wouldn't that be false advertising to use a faked UI on a placed product?

[#2 posted by fortybillion , January 23, 2009 9:24 AM]

I like that there doesn't appear to be an "answer call" button.

[#3 posted by Brainspore , January 24, 2009 10:03 AM]

Anybody know what kind of fancy phone James Bond was sporting in "Quantum of Solace?" It looked a lot like an iPhone, but I'm not sure if you can download that "criminal facial recognition database" app from the iPhone store or if it's an unauthorized hack.

[#4 posted by hicks , January 24, 2009 11:07 AM]

Two things: First, if you zoom up on the photo, it appears he's a subscriber to the "KR Network", and second, what the hell is that little red thing in the second shot? A tiny gorilla? A goblin? "Slimer" from Ghostbusters with legs?

[#5 posted by Rob Beschizza , January 24, 2009 1:01 PM]

If I were a crack crime fighting team, I'd want my own MVNO too

[#6 posted by Anonymous , January 24, 2009 7:06 PM]

The red thing looks like "Duke", the Java mascot:
https://duke.dev.java.net/

[#7 posted by dimmer , January 24, 2009 8:56 PM]

"if this was a paid placement, wouldn't that be false advertising to use a faked UI on a placed product?"

Doubtful: look at almost every depiction of a tech item has a made up version of the UI. Often for good reason: the native UI probably won't scale well / enough to work in a movie or TV show. That I don't mind, I get more annoyed when a Mac appears to be running Windows for close-up shots (or the other way around) -- and to be honest I don't get -that- upset!

[#8 posted by Anonymous , January 24, 2009 10:56 PM]

Actually, it could also be a cheap chinese knockoff which usually goes by name X1.

I have one in front of me right now (only with matte black finish), and UI is exact match. It is also very easily hackable. I've been messing with it's mp3-player and ringtones for a while now.

Perhaps props team is on a tight budget? ;)

[#9 posted by Anonymous , January 25, 2009 2:36 AM]

HICKS That red thing looks a lot like Duke (the Java computer language mascot) before he went gussie. Unfortunatly, Sun seem to have enforced their copyright and had all old pictures removed from the 'net.

BRAINSPORE That phone was a Sony Ericsson C902. The phone was actually designed before iPhone came into existence and the deal with the movie producers was announced in 2005. The release of the phone was somewhat delayed to better coincide with the release of the movie. I have neither seen the movie nor the phone, but I do read Swedish business papers;-)