Darfon's Bluetooth keypad is bigger than your cellphone

Computex is over but we couldn't just walk away without giving you a peep at this Bluetooth keypad from Darfon. The idea here is simple yet blissfully absurd: wear the device as a lanyard to dial calls while your cellphone remains tucked away in your man-bag or she-sack. We're apparently supposed to overlook the fact that it's about the same size as your cellphone. Hey Darfon, meet Palm -- we hear that they share your interest in superfluous "companion" devices.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 11th 2007 7:56AM]

Is that a screen? For the love of God, why?

In the UK, you see a lot of people wearing their cellphones around their necks anyway.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 11th 2007 7:59AM]

Hey, thats a great way to make pick-pockets who have stolen the device frustrated when they notice they don't have the phone itself and still need to get one with bluetooth...

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 11th 2007 8:52AM]

Man, if there was only some way to put the keypad on the phone and still make it smaller than that lanyard. Preposterous, the phone would need to be slim, slim like a razor blade in fact! Well, hopefully our continued work on these newfangled portable telephonic contraptions will develop something.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 11th 2007 9:52AM]

You mean tucked away in your she-bags or man-sack.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 11th 2007 2:25PM]

That's really not a bad idea. The keypad will always be the same, irregardless of what phone you have, and what phone you upgrade to.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 12th 2007 11:46AM]

I thnk it's a great idea as well. Not every number you want to dial is available for dial by voice services. I wonder if it interacts with a bluetooth headset as well???