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Thursday March 22, 2007
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One of the reasons I love CTIA, the big cell phone trade show each March, is the random new cell phone makers who pop out of the woodwork. One year it was Newgen, a Korean company with chromed phones and really badly translated slogans. Another year it was Hop-On, a California company that insisted their discount phones were going to sweep the nation any day now.
InfoSonics' line of VeryKool phones have one big advantage over those other guys: you can actually buy them. InfoSonics is selling their six GSM phones and one Windows Mobile Smartphone unlocked, though only one of the phones appears to be "shipping" right now - the rest are "pre-order." The phones are cute and reasonably priced, though I can't necessarily pull out one element that makes them special; they do use a lot of Motorola's SLVR design language. The smart phone is pretty basic stuff, too: Windows Mobile 5, 64 MB of memory, a 1.3 megapixel camera, and oddly, only GPRS data - not great for Internet access, but probably great for a low price. (Is $300 unlocked low?)
Who makes 'em? I'd like to point out that "VeryKool" does use two letters familiar from a Korean cell phone manufacturer: VK Mobile, which has in the past sold some fascinating but buggy thin phones and a really buggy Helio phone here in the US. Check VeryKool out at www.verykool.net. We'll check them out at the CTIA show next week.
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