World's most easily misplaced cellphone?

We just sorta figured that there was some unwritten rule among cellphone manufacturers that loosely said something to the effect of "don't make a phone much smaller than a Pantech C300." Don't get us wrong, we never doubted that the wonders of modern electronic miniaturization could produce a phone the size of a Bluetooth headset, but we're figuring you're likely to mistake it for a variety of other, far more disposable objects in your pocket -- coins, lighters, and the like -- not to mention the obvious usability concerns. Nevertheless, the Xun Chi 138 forges ahead with the submicronic form factor, trading a traditional keypad for a touch sensitive display with handwriting recognition while still managing to pack in USB connectivity, an MP3 player with 121MB of storage, and what we think is a VGA cam (despite the clever "1.3 MEGA PLIXS" label). On the downside, the handset tops out with lowly GPRS, but then again, we can't imagine consuming terribly much data with a display the size of our thumbnail.

[Via The Raw Feed]

[dan @ Sep 25th 2006 3:57PM]

Zoolander, anyone?

[Lee Gibson @ Sep 25th 2006 7:26PM]

Something about that picture DOES make me want an orange mocha frappucino. Or a gasoline fight. Hard to tell...

[the7thone1188 @ Sep 25th 2006 3:58PM]

Whoah! Tiny!

[Budi Prasetya @ Sep 25th 2006 4:01PM]

It would be nice if the phone is included with "location finder". Clap your hand or wistle and it will ring.

[IFoundGodot @ Sep 26th 2006 9:44AM]

You _could_ always call it...

[TS @ Sep 25th 2006 4:01PM]

Now if only I could perfect "Blue Steel"....

[Nick @ Sep 25th 2006 4:03PM]

I want!

[Alexia @ Sep 25th 2006 4:24PM]

Me too!

[Richard @ Sep 25th 2006 5:43PM]

Me three!

[iptydafu @ Sep 25th 2006 4:15PM]

Good grief, it's the cell-suppository.

[Paul @ Sep 25th 2006 4:26PM]

I think I'd accidentally eat that.

I can see it now - friday night, a couple of beers, hmmm, what's this? Ahhh, crackly.

Paul | http://www.theonemillionmasterpiece.com

[EdZ @ Sep 25th 2006 4:31PM]

Not very practical for daily use maybe, but absolutely awesome for hacking. A phone that tiny with a USB connection is perfect for data logging in cases where you need something small/lightweight, with practically unlimited range (recption range, I mean. You don't have to keep close to something to capture data).

[Cade @ Sep 25th 2006 4:31PM]

I'd rather have a bigger, less losable cell phone with more features.

[Kansei @ Sep 25th 2006 4:38PM]

assuming the hand in the picture is of normal size, that may just be able to be swallowed. niiice haha.

[Mark @ Sep 25th 2006 4:51PM]

How very "Hello Kitty"

[Simon @ Sep 25th 2006 4:54PM]

Me three! Any way to get it in the U.S.? Would it only have Japanese as the interface language? Why do us roundeyes always get the shaft when it comes to stuff like this? :(

[Dan @ Sep 25th 2006 5:34PM]

reminds me of one of those Samsung's from a few years ago that was credit card sized.

[Lt_Ladle @ Sep 25th 2006 5:45PM]

but how much fun would it be to wrap it in plastic, swallow it, and then call yourself!!

[ROBOGAMERX @ Sep 25th 2006 5:51PM]

how many days of work will it cost to get this,then have it broken/lost/stolen ?
,,is it worth it?

[totalfixation @ Sep 25th 2006 6:25PM]

So this is GSM? Triband?

[cecilia @ Sep 25th 2006 7:52PM]

the phone is tiny, but the magnifying glass is HUGE!

[Dr Chaos @ Sep 25th 2006 8:01PM]

It's pantech's illigitimate love child

[UGH! @ Sep 25th 2006 8:23PM]

This should really shut up those pissants who do nothing but complain about very functional phones like BB 8700 SK3 or Nokia 9300 calling them bricks or some other lame names. I know a good place they can lose this POS.

[Adib @ Sep 25th 2006 8:25PM]

If only it wasn't pink

[apeguero @ Sep 25th 2006 8:40PM]

"GET IN MY BELLY!!"

Gotdamn that thing is small!

[Dave Pevsner @ Sep 25th 2006 10:16PM]

is it a coincidence that the YP-K5 ad on the page is hideously shrunken?http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/9858/engadgetbu9.gif

[Alaskan Assassin @ Sep 26th 2006 12:53AM]

it looks as if it should fit in a cardbus slot or somthing

[JRo @ Sep 26th 2006 8:00AM]

I hope it's waterproof. That's definately going through the spin cycle when you forget to check your pockets on laundry day.

[blueflyadult @ Sep 26th 2006 9:31AM]

do you have smaller mobile? I need it for my kitty.

[Joe Mamma @ Sep 26th 2006 11:37AM]

Continuing with the trend of moving the mic further and further away from your mouth, which requires a more sensitive mic, which picks up more background noise, which requires the user to talk even louder on the phone in public places, which annoys me.

[James @ Sep 26th 2006 11:42AM]

Remember that episode of Family Guy where Peter swallowed his cellphone. It's very possible to do now!

[Gilgad Drumheller @ Sep 26th 2006 3:58PM]

So if they can make a phone this small, why hasn't anyone come up with the "headset" phones we see is absolutely every single near-future movie (Minority Report, I Robot). As it wouldn't need a screen, the size could be even smaller than this. Voice recoginition would have to be used for dialing, but that could actually be a plus. Get some good voice recognition software on there and it could read you you're email and allow you to write text messages (well, say them). If there is a market for this phone, i'm sure there is a market for a headset phone.

[Yann Blanes @ Oct 5th 2006 8:04PM]

We have this mini mobile in exclusivity with the english menu have a look here:

http://www.securyploof.com/eng/company-news.php

[trey @ Mar 9th 2008 9:09PM]

This phone should come with a www.wheresmycellphone.com ad.

[Mr.Knight @ Mar 23rd 2008 2:50AM]

wow taht thing is tiny ive got a c3 and i didnt think that phones could get any smaller but i guess i was very wrong