Well, they
did it before, now Newgen put the surprise on again
with their new Mega-X Phone...yeah, that a freakin' cellphone! Taking a design queue from
Sanyo's Xacti, this dual-band GSM
900/1800 GPRS phone features a 45-degree mounted 1.3 megapixel camera, 128MB of onboard storage, and 1.8-inch 26k color
LCD display. Flip the LCD open and you've got a fully functional video/still cam or MPEG-4 media player. Close the LCD
and those dedicated buttons allow you to playback MP3s and view track data via a second, 96x48 external display. Too
bad it doesn't rock any external expansion and is limited to just 2.5 hours talk time or we might bite. Expect the
Mega-X to begin shipping "this month" which gives 'em about a week to get their shiznit together. More pics
after the break.
[Via
Slashphone and
c|net Asia]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Sascha @ Dec 23rd 2005 12:28PM
Does anyone know anyone who has actually BOUGHT a Newgen cellphone? I'm not being coy here. I'm genuinely curious.
TZK @ Dec 23rd 2005 12:52PM
"Too bad it doesn't rock any external expansion and is limited to just 2.5 hours talk time or we might bite. "
How about to bad we will never se it here in America :-D
ax7 @ Dec 23rd 2005 1:14PM
Did you know coy means shy?
Acrylic @ Dec 23rd 2005 1:42PM
coy Audio pronunciation of "coy" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (koi)
adj. coyer, coyest
1. Tending to avoid people and social situations; reserved.
2. Affectedly and usually flirtatiously shy or modest. See Synonyms at shy1.
3. Annoyingly unwilling to make a commitment.
So, coy was used correctly....
Sascha @ Dec 23rd 2005 3:06PM
I was going more for "showing marked and often playful or irritating evasiveness or reluctance to make a definite or committing statement" i.e. I was not trying to playfully/evasively say "Newgen phones are bad" or anything like that, just genuinely asking if anyone knows anyone who bought one.
Steve_c @ Dec 23rd 2005 3:09PM
WOuldn't it be fun to snap that sucker in half? What a poor design!
western meadow @ Dec 23rd 2005 11:34PM
I love an intelligent woman with an alluring name, but not enough to buy her an unknown and untested phone ...
Anaardvark @ Jan 12th 2006 7:44AM
Hopefully they will sort out their software and wont have the same problems as the Newgen C-800. The amount of faulty phones we've seen come back is unreal.