Marketing 101 - Round down.

I've sold my soul for less...

So it's wrong to power gadgets with the heart of an orphan child?

Sounds sketchy... where the leads to the car battery?

Its clearly a typo! Get over it.

Typo

@frndlybnny: It's just a little bit! not the whole thing!

(awesome VB reference)

...you'd be damned anyway for carrying a phone as fat as the brick phones of old and with buttons that clearly rip off a certain northern european phone designer that starts with an N and ands with an OKIA.

I like the red company logo with the horns....

@JJ910: It's not a typo. Solomobi announced last week that the phone would get 1-year on standby. Now they upped it to 666 days, confident in their 32,800mAh battery.

It's SCIENCE! Get over it.

Satan ain't so bad

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"confident in their 32,800mAh battery."

*observes 7500 mah lead-acid, and 2500mah nimhs, and head asplosion ensues*

Well the devil thing is quite scary, but I would sell my sell my soul to the Devil if I didn't have to charge my phone for 666 days.

It may not be a typo, or related to the devil. There are plenty of cultures that like auspicious numbers. What is taboo in one culture is fantastic in another.

Or, they want to make sure that come the apocalypse, no evangelistic Americans use the phones.

1-800-Beelzebub

Santa = Satan Same letters same guy! But seriously that would be awesome to not have to charge your cell phone after practically every use.

@DeadWriter: Definitely not the Chinese

Santa = Satan same letters same guy! Seriously I would love to not have to charge my phone every night.

Facts is, you get two 'batteries'
-Lithium Batteries 32800mA
-4800mAh unspecified battery

I assume that the big one cannot be recharged and in fact is just a 'Lithium Battery' found in many remote controls or old 35mm photo cameras. This would mean that after 2 years of stand-by, or 3-5 days of talking you have to throw away the big battery and use the still not to shabby rechargeable 4800mAh.

with that logo its not a type, its the anti christs phone

From Wikipedia (so take it with a grain of salt)

The number 6, pronounced "liu", sounds like the word for "flowing", "smooth" or "slippery" which can mean "everything goes smoothly".
The number 666 is considered one of the luckiest numbers. It can be seen prominently in many shop windows across the country, and people there often pay extra to get a mobile phone number including this string of digits. Coincidentally, that number is considered to be demonic in Western culture, as it is the Number of the Beast.

When I traveled in South East Asia I saw a lot of stores and restaurants with just numbers as names. I remember finding the "666 cafe" funny the first time I saw it, but not as odd as the number of places named "286", "80286" or "286286"- which I think became auspicious due to the fact that processor was supporting the local labor economy.

Why is Giz missing the story of the woman actually suing the Ass. (aka FIAA), come on Giz get ur news feeds in check

check out the www.theregister.com

@The Full English Please!!: tips@gizmodo.com

@Way:
that's two of us now who've told english how to work these tubes properly...

@The Full English Please!!: You mean the RIAA, and it would be easier to just do this.... [www.theregister.co.uk] unless you are on an iPhone and can't copy and paste. But yeah. There's the tip page if you want to put stuff like this up.

Back to the antiChrist phone: If this were quad band I would be interested in buying it to at least check it out. 666 days of standby means I could get lost in the woods for over a year and still have a few bars of battery life left to call for help. You know, a year later, having missed over a years worth of cell phone bills (well 911 would still work).

@tobedetermined: Many of my Taiwanese friends say 666 is lucky to them. Depending on who you ask, that's China already! Hopping across to the mainland, I'm guessing the lucky number status would stay.

Except the number of the beast is actually 616.

Somewhere between the 200s and the 1400s, somebody made a typo. Who would have thought..?

[en.wikipedia.org]

Oh, sorry. Somebody was Divinely Inspired to make a typo...

@gusnyc.com: That's not the manufacturer's logo. It's the logo for the cellphone blog who posted this picture. Still funny though.

well a week ago i hit 66,666.6 miles on my car - and im still alive.

must mean something

Chinese stuff still makes me nervous (as far as quality and all our industry going over there) but I really like the button layout.