http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/ Engadget Comments for Zumba Phone: the Steorn Orbo of cellphones? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/Jan 30th 2009 5:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33lmyry2ka4]]>Jan 30th 2009 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/Jan 30th 2009 5:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/
Does anyone else think it's looks similar to the first gen ayePod?]]>Jan 30th 2009 5:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/Jan 30th 2009 5:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/
Could it be Steve's side business? Something from the NeXT generation?]]>Jan 30th 2009 5:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/Jan 30th 2009 6:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/Jan 30th 2009 6:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/]]>Jan 30th 2009 7:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/Jan 30th 2009 5:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/Jan 30th 2009 5:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/Jan 30th 2009 5:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/Jan 30th 2009 5:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/Jan 30th 2009 5:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/Jan 30th 2009 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/When you run out of articles that dont mean you can go and post rubbish and make up stuff!]]>Jan 30th 2009 5:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/Jan 30th 2009 6:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/Jan 30th 2009 6:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/
And if the technology is that secret, how can you sell it to the public?!?]]>Jan 30th 2009 6:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/
Hereford on engadget. Not exactly known for its technical prowess. People have stopped pointing at those funny motorised carriages now too.]]>Jan 30th 2009 6:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceFor/ServiceCommunity/Hive/WalesAndWestern/HerefordHive.htm and there's a big QinetiQ site in nearby Malvern, Worcestershire as-well...]]>Jan 31st 2009 5:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/This is why this story is and can only be a smoking load of B.S.]]>Jan 30th 2009 6:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/
I'm gonna use my Zumba to connect to the Zumba Lumba to call my mate.

The monthly bills will be called Zumba Bumba.
Speed dials are Zumba Dumba.

If you develop a hack to play Doom, the mod is gonna be called Zumba Doomba. o_0]]>Jan 30th 2009 6:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/Jan 30th 2009 6:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/
Come on, BBC Midlands. I applaud your efforts at self-promotion, and encouraging local industry, but please don't treat us like idiots. ]]>Jan 30th 2009 6:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/In which case they don't even have a working prototype.

It's function also sounds fairly fantastical. The concept is basically a cocktail of several ideas that have been floating around for years but never really fully materialized, and that's after being worked on by giants like Sony, Nokia, Simens et al.

Smells like dotcom to me. All I heard the marketing guy, the dyslexic "inventor", say was "Hype, hype, drivel, hype, hype". You know the language people learn at marketing school.

WAPORWARE!]]>Jan 30th 2009 6:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/
http://www.zumbalumba.com/

biggest load of BS, obviously using this to promote some as yet unknown service..

'.....ZumbaLumba is a ‘Natural Connections’ website that taps into our real life circle of contacts held on our phones and allows us to interact with them in new and purposeful ways. It allows users to manage their contacts, availability and communication, whilst enabling closer connections. ZumbaLumba ‘Natural Connecting’ brings the virtual world of networking into the real world of connecting to solve real problems that affect all of us.'

sounds like scientology to me!



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As well as the people in their 50s with soldering irons, beware of the fact that the company, according to the caption at the end, appears to be called 1A Something or Other - the last refuge of the crappy company that wants to be first in the Yellow Pages because it hasn't got anything else to recommend it.]]>Jan 30th 2009 7:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/
Its all true, I just spoke to my 4 year old, she says she designed the website featured on the clip.

Ba Boom

]]>Jan 30th 2009 7:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/
http://osdir.com/ml/telephony.pbx.asterisk.biz/2005-07/msg00135.html

Super-fit, handsome and with a stomach that would make Brad Pitt insecure Mr McEvoy certainly has bag-less eyes, despite what must have been countless development hours in front of C++...

Ahh... http://www.advancedlipo.co.uk/ (it's a cheap-shot, read the first few lines...)]]>Jan 30th 2009 7:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/
the mill most likely has multiple units to let to various businesses.]]>Jan 30th 2009 7:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/
Used to own http://our-telecom.com and Your-tel (http://www.daisyplc.com/corporate/news/daisy-completes-acquisition-of-yourtel.html) so must have made a few quid.]]>Jan 30th 2009 7:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/Jan 30th 2009 7:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/Jan 30th 2009 7:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/Jan 30th 2009 8:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/]]>Jan 30th 2009 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/
http://www.iatechnology.co.uk/zumbaheader.jpg
]]>Jan 30th 2009 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/
1. Look what they a soldering, they're huge PCB boards... with huge wires. Nothing remotely close to what they're presenting.
2. Something that small, on-mass, isn't made by hand. And definitely not in Britain where alcohol withdrawal would give them all the sakes.
3. Magnetic sheets is what the earpiece is made of, and the mega ear isn't remotely close to a good design, it comical. I wish they made it pointy (spock like).
4. She can't actually show us because it doesn't actually work and they already blew the budget for the joke with all the other props.
5. And he dresses too well to be really that smart.
6. The background projector is priceless, a little birdie pulling a banner... it's ultra secure. I pissed myself.
7. ZumaLumba - Where's my golden ticket so I can visit the factory!

I want a ZUMA, because I am so AMUZ'd.]]>Jan 30th 2009 8:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/
Far better idea would be to licence the software to the entire market and make millions without the added costs involved in making an ugly handset.

Then again being British, and having a history of selling all our best inventions to the rest of The World, he'll probably swap it for £3.75, a cuppa tea and some digestive biscuits. ]]>Jan 30th 2009 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/I have a fake phone for you
Zumba Lumba, doom-pa-dee-dee
They totally fooled the little old Beeb]]>Jan 30th 2009 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/Jan 30th 2009 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/
http://www.advancedlipo.co.uk

]]>Jan 30th 2009 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/
"I was thinking of inventing one myself...Been real busy the last couple of weeks just haven't got around to it."


See! They're so easy to fake, even an old reporter can do it!]]>Jan 30th 2009 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/Jan 30th 2009 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/Now the name "ZumbaLumba" however, that's only a name a village idiot from that area could come up with!

(Apologies to anyone from Hereford... or perhaps not, but congratulations on making the BEEB look idiotic)]]>Jan 30th 2009 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/I've got a dubious concept for you,
Zumba Lumba Doopety Dee,
Will you give all your money to me?

We've got a phone that can link with your mind,
A plane that can run on a single pork rind,
A small little box that makes power from air,
Why not leave all your cash... just... there?
(Don't expect a prototype)

Zumba Lumba Doopety Dar,
We accept euro, yuan and dollar.
It helps if you're gullible, too.
Not like the Zumba Lumba Doopety Doo.]]>Jan 30th 2009 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/
Thats probably because it doesn't actually work...]]>Jan 30th 2009 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/zumba-phone-the-steorn-orbo-of-cellphones/Jan 30th 2009 2:57PM