Mobiado intros rugged Camo handset for wealthy, outdoorsy individuals
By Donald Melanson 
posted May 7th 2008 4:01PM
posted May 7th 2008 4:01PM
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.
good lord... a shitty camouflaged phone for the Land Rover set.
honey! get my hunting rifle!
first! pwnage!
Über fail.
I hate your kind. I wish Engadget would ban people for calling "first" the way Kotaku does.
damn it! self-pwned!
second second pwned!
looks cool. why would you need one?
mmc? really?
$1!
Oh wait, no 3G? I retract my bid.
"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!
Is it waterproof? Cause that would definatly make it worth it. And crushproof, like a nalgene bottle.
I realize now that my comment sounds serious. I was not being serious. Thank you.
Any phone with buttons like that, I wouldn't use even if I paid to use it.
so does this mean you don't normally pay to use phones? i can haz confuzions?
No you can't "haz confuzions".
Moron.
melloncollie, you're sad. infinitely.
Wouldn't the camo make it easier to lose?
Only if it actually looked like camo and not something a first grader threw up after eating the paint in art class.
Not if you never actually take it out into the woods...
i'd say it would make it easier to lose because there's no way i'm holding onto anything that ugly.
Hand Painted camo means someone's randomly sprayed with with brown and green paint.
A work of art.
DEAR PETER BONAC,
I THINK THE CAMO NEEDS REDESIGNING..
ALSO, IT WOULD BE 20 TIMES COOLER IF THE BUTTONS WERE MATTE CHARCOAL
RYAN SINGER
DEAR RYAN SINGER,
PRESS CAPS LOCK KEY THEN REMOVE SAID KEY AND INGEST IT SO THAT YOU CAN NO LONGER USE IT.
LOVE,
PHANBOUY
CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL!!!
Okay, I get it: it's for rich people because it doesn't look like any other phone. Too bad it's ass ugly!
looks like my old ass sony tv remote from 1980
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?
"May be used to beat game dead in the event of a shortage of ammo."
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
Apparently, in the cell phone market luxurious==Ugly as sin.