WinMo-powered iCEphone comes to life, looks scary

Edinburgh's own The Medical Phone is just about set to unleash the mobile for the true argonaut in the iCEphone. The Windows Mobile-powered "Swiss Army knife of mobiles" is dubbed a micro-notebook by its manufacturer, and while we're hesitant to go along with that, we can't deny the utility here. Sporting a Jacob's Ladder-style hinge and a full QWERTY keyboard, the unit features three independent panels, a 3-inch 400 x 240 resolution touchscreen, a mouse / tracker pad, dual SIM card slots, HSDPA support, quad-band GSM connectivity, GPS, a 3.1-megapixel camera, WiFi and a 532MHz Freescale iMX31 CPU. We're told that the phone is just weeks / months away from a release in Thailand, and it should be hitting the UK sometime in the March - April time frame for around $1,000. Bonus video coverage after the break.

[Genyus Posted Nov 18th 2008 12:08PM]

Pulling one of these out in public must be like pushing an ugly baby in a stroller down a busy high street. Except it's triplets.

[Gionormous Posted Nov 19th 2008 2:09AM]

Pulling these out in public is worse than pulling out a cassette walkman with no auto-reverse in this day and time. ouch!

[TMC Posted Nov 18th 2008 12:46PM]

See, this is what happens when someone with a lot of money gets drunk, and cooks up an idea.

[nismo334 Posted Nov 18th 2008 12:53PM]

Look at whats on the screen. What doctor (or any medical personnel for that matter) doesn't know how to do CPR?

[Valicore Posted Nov 18th 2008 4:23PM]

The last one you'll ever see probably.

[Gamer Posted Nov 18th 2008 7:59PM]

Dentist! instead of giving mouth to mouth who would check your cavities

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 18th 2008 1:20PM]

Gimme an F
Gimme a U
Gimme a G
Gimme an L
Gimme a Y.

What's that spell? FUGLY!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 18th 2008 1:29PM]

hi - is there an email address i could use to send you some info on some pandora/energizer news? thx!

[Frankie Posted Nov 18th 2008 1:34PM]

You gotta be fuc*ing kidding me. What the hell was that! A joke?

I'm a diehard Windows Mobile fan, fanboy perhaps, but I won't stand to see the most functional Mobile OS get butt raped!

Look at the lady's face @ 0:25, lol, she's like "what the hell are you talking about, and why the hell are you bothering me." lol

[Blacklight Posted Nov 18th 2008 4:09PM]

Am I the only one who thinks this is an horribly badly implemented GOOD idea?

[Valicore Posted Nov 18th 2008 4:26PM]

It's a great idea, especially for the field. I don't care how good of a doctor you are, you can't know about every single treatment option for every disease. These are the things that make differences because of the deaths they prevent. Once someone makes this, well, practical, I think it will definitely sell.

[johnkzin Posted Nov 18th 2008 5:23PM]

They stole my idea! (I posted an idea, over a year ago, to the InternetTabletTalk forums for a tri-fold phone)

This phone, with Android and/or Maemo, would be ideal for me, I think. Dual SIMs, 3G, Wifi, looks like a great layout (though, replace the Windows oriented bits with Linux oriented bits). I'd buy it.

[M C Posted Nov 18th 2008 7:43PM]

you can be one of five or so people who mightactually purchase that. hav fun living in your own little: i have a agargantual trifold phone world

[hey buddy Posted Nov 18th 2008 5:45PM]

...but no FireWire? Just a lost sale.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 18th 2008 9:11PM]

this is ridiculous.... still in prototype mode i'm sure. You don't even have any sort of functioning prototype a month before it's launch of 200,000 units?! glad i don't live in thailand.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 7th 2009 7:26PM]

The Smartphone just got a lot Smarter
Las Vegas Jan 6th 2009 Official Launch

The iCEphone is part of a suite of highly innovative mobile phone products designed to save and protect life. iCE (in case of emergency) products feature both hardware and software, which can work independently or in combination. Although originally designed to meet the exacting requirements of the US and British military and the emergency services, the utility of the core technology has also generated significant interest from the consumer marketplace and two versions are now planned – a consumer version and a military/emergency services version.

The iCEphone is a stunning new micro-notebook phone. It is the Swiss army knife of handsets: it changes shape quickly and easily to be a touch screen phone, micro note-book, a games player, camera and video call handset. It is very much a productivity device, with large keys, designed as the ultimate in convergence devices. As one senior mobile executive remarked – ‘someone has finally figured out how to put a laptop into a mobile phone’. iCEaid is a mobile application that provides emergency first aid advice, based on internationally recognised protocols. This can be at several levels, from someone with no medical training, through first responders to ambulance crews. If this software is used once in a lifetime, it will be worthwhile having it on your phone. There are also accessories designed for specific markets such as the iCEpic (personal information carrier), a USB device designed to carry medical information in a safe secure manner and iCE e-notes, an e-notebook software application for doctors and other healthcare workers.

The iCE solutions are designed to assist anyone, anywhere in the world affected by a medical emergency, by reducing the time to receive appropriate treatment – the critical factor in emergency medicine. The iCEphone is due for release early in Q2 09 and the Company is seeking distributors and network partners. iCEphone is the brand of The Medical Phone Limited, a new ambitious company set up by a few individuals with significant business, medical, military and mobile phone expertise. They have offices in Edinburgh, London and Bangkok.

For further information contact

Graham Gilmour on 07764 575372 or

[e-mail]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SYO5gOzYpwI