tPhone competes with Apple Peel 520, turns your iPod Touch into a chubby phone

Well, it didn't take long for the Apple Peel 520 to go from pioneering phone-maker to competition. Enter the tPhone, an also derivatively named and similarly positioned device that attaches to an iPod Touch and turns it into a phone. This one packs a 1,200mAh battery, 50 percent larger than the Apple Peel, but offsets that by existing as a "super-duper thick" hard case that clips on to the Touch. It naturally also offers a SIM slot and a dock port, augmented by a handy microUSB port on the side. It'll set you back ¥700, about $100, so you're paying a bit of a premium over the $75 Apple Peel. Worth it given the extra bulk and cost? That depends: just how big are your pockets?

[jckchn Posted Aug 13th 2010 2:44PM]

The iPod touch is cheaper... for iPhone, you have to pay a monthly fee (voice, data, etc.) and sign a contract for two years. The total cost of owning an iPhone for 2 years is much more than a one time charge of $199, $299 or $399 for the current line of iPod touches.

[Tech Dude Posted Aug 13th 2010 2:47PM]

So what carrier is this coming to (if it's going to have one). Is it coming to America? Release Date? 3G Web? Yes or No?

[glennS Posted Aug 13th 2010 3:08PM]

The term "chubby phone" conjures up a very strange image.

[guigsy Posted Aug 13th 2010 3:42PM]

haha, looks like there's a new fat kid in class!

[uzerzero Posted Aug 13th 2010 4:17PM]

"because mold causes, we learned that the price of this tPhone not particularly cheap"

So maybe mold is the TRUE cause behind the white iPhone 4 delays.

[Rosco911 Posted Aug 13th 2010 5:10PM]

YEAH JASON!!!

[BootsMcGavin Posted Aug 13th 2010 6:26PM]

"Worth it given the extra bulk and cost? That depends: just how big are your pockets?"


I see what you did right there.

[Tech Dude Posted Aug 14th 2010 1:13AM]

http://www.talkandroid.com/10595-new-galaxy-s-pmp-yp-mb2-pictures/ kicks the ipod touch's ass.

[appsman Posted Aug 14th 2010 2:43AM]

IF AT&T let you get an iPhone with no data plan, there would be no point to this, but that is unlikely to happen. At $100 or so, with no contract obligations, this sort of product could be great, but a critical point is how it can interface with the iPod. Can it start a call from your iPod contact list? If there is no integration like that, the idea gets clunkier. Still, the idea of a device with no data charges and WiFi only access is not a bad idea.

[truckfreak69 Posted Aug 14th 2010 12:14PM]

It would make more sense to put a cdma radio in one so people on sprint and verizon could have an iphone