Mobiado intros rugged Camo handset for wealthy, outdoorsy individuals
Never one to miss an opportunity to trot out yet another luxury handset, Mobiado has now taken the wraps off its new Camo candybar phone, which apparently adds some ruggedness to Mobiado's usual excess. That comes in the form of anodized aluminum shell and stainless steel buttons (not to mention some added thickness), plus a hand-painted camouflage design that at least makes it seem rugged. Otherwise, the phone is a pretty standard tri-band GSM number, with it boasting a 1.3-megapixel camera, a 208 x 208 pixel display of unspecified size, an MMC card slot, and built-in Bluetooth, to name a few features. No word on a price or release date just yet, but it's limited to a mere 200 units, so you can probably draw your own conclusions.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
phanbouy @ May 7th 2008 4:05PM
good lord... a shitty camouflaged phone for the Land Rover set.
honey! get my hunting rifle!
Marshal Willenholly @ May 7th 2008 4:05PM
first! pwnage!
Technex @ May 7th 2008 4:08PM
Über fail.
Richard @ May 7th 2008 4:09PM
I hate your kind. I wish Engadget would ban people for calling "first" the way Kotaku does.
Marshal Willenholly @ May 7th 2008 4:06PM
damn it! self-pwned!
turban @ May 7th 2008 4:07PM
second second pwned!
looks cool. why would you need one?
Richard @ May 7th 2008 4:07PM
$1!
Oh wait, no 3G? I retract my bid.
Ben @ May 7th 2008 4:07PM
mmc? really?
Charles @ May 7th 2008 4:08PM
"1.3-megapixel camera, a 208 x 208 pixel display of unspecified size, an MMC card slot"
Man it's based on a Nokia 6230i!
BradVT @ May 7th 2008 4:12PM
Is it waterproof? Cause that would definatly make it worth it. And crushproof, like a nalgene bottle.
BradVT @ May 7th 2008 4:13PM
I realize now that my comment sounds serious. I was not being serious. Thank you.
AlphaTeam @ May 7th 2008 4:13PM
Any phone with buttons like that, I wouldn't use even if I paid to use it.
Anonymoose @ May 7th 2008 4:39PM
so does this mean you don't normally pay to use phones? i can haz confuzions?
melloncollie @ May 7th 2008 5:14PM
No you can't "haz confuzions".
Moron.
phanbouy @ May 7th 2008 5:18PM
melloncollie, you're sad. infinitely.
rick @ May 7th 2008 4:15PM
Wouldn't the camo make it easier to lose?
Richard @ May 7th 2008 4:28PM
Only if it actually looked like camo and not something a first grader threw up after eating the paint in art class.
Robert Abramson @ May 7th 2008 4:32PM
Not if you never actually take it out into the woods...
Anonymoose @ May 7th 2008 4:40PM
i'd say it would make it easier to lose because there's no way i'm holding onto anything that ugly.
emjoi @ May 7th 2008 7:42PM
Hand Painted camo means someone's randomly sprayed with with brown and green paint.
A work of art.
Ryan Singer @ May 7th 2008 5:17PM
DEAR PETER BONAC,
I THINK THE CAMO NEEDS REDESIGNING..
ALSO, IT WOULD BE 20 TIMES COOLER IF THE BUTTONS WERE MATTE CHARCOAL
RYAN SINGER
phanbouy @ May 7th 2008 5:19PM
DEAR RYAN SINGER,
PRESS CAPS LOCK KEY THEN REMOVE SAID KEY AND INGEST IT SO THAT YOU CAN NO LONGER USE IT.
LOVE,
PHANBOUY
andres @ May 7th 2008 6:27PM
CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL!!!
Chris @ May 7th 2008 5:28PM
Okay, I get it: it's for rich people because it doesn't look like any other phone. Too bad it's ass ugly!
CynisterSix @ May 7th 2008 5:40PM
looks like my old ass sony tv remote from 1980
Loonie @ May 7th 2008 5:49PM
What a sweet deal to get into... Take some super-ordinary piece of hardware, slap it in some stupid over-the-top case, then wait for some wealth-tards to give you lots of money for it.
How 'bout a sapphire-cased 1GB flash drive? A platinum 12" b/w portable TV with a crystal CRT?
QMac @ May 7th 2008 6:19PM
Haha good one PHANBOUY, you'd think Ryan, who specializes in the field of architechture, and offers his expert design advice would be aware of that already...
Quentin
Mycroft @ May 7th 2008 6:21PM
"May be used to beat game dead in the event of a shortage of ammo."
monstroy @ May 8th 2008 2:25PM
Apparently, in the cell phone market luxurious==Ugly as sin.