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GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat
07/19/09

In reply to Rumor: Modu To "Soft Launch" This Wednesday
Did anyone else read the headline as "Rumormodo"?
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switchblade saints
07/19/09

@Summermodoin'_GitEmSteveDave: yes i did. I though rumormodu was just Jack getting all fancy with some french or something

ha
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The Lab
07/19/09

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In theory, one could just have a few different phones and switch the SIM card. I've heard this is popular with "the Europeans" but I have yet to see one of my friends actually buy a second handset.

It seems like the advantage here is that it would be cheaper to buy additional "jackets" than additional phones. I would love a small phone for going out, a jacket with big screen and buttons for playing a game on the subway and a third jacket with a physical keyboard.

Also, isn't Nokia owning the non-smart phone market now and reaping the 66%-profit-loss rewards of that move? Have at it Modu, sounds like a juicy piece of market share.
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Violent Pacifist
07/19/09

@The Lab: As a "european", I can promise that very few people do this. I know of people with duel sim phones, but most people with more than one phone have it only because we have a higher reliance on Pay as you go, so can easily take a sim out and swap it into a new phone when we feel like it.
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The Lab
07/19/09

@Violent Pacifist: Good to know. Sometimes you hear people talk about the behavior common to a continent and it is really only their friends. These are also the people who talk about Europe like it is one big country.
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jewsrock
07/12/09

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It actually says (I know Hebrew) that they have COMPLETED their first bach and the israeli company Cellcom is launching it this month. LATER it will go south east asia. But it's gonna be in Israel this month.

Btw Calcalist is a very respected newspaper.
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nopowers
07/12/09

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Some details from the original (Hebrew) page:

- There is no mention of India (thats just a slip by Google translate)

- The line will be launched this month in Israel

- After Israel, the phone will be launched in "South-East Asia"
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Xterm11: ESCAPED YOUR HYPERLINK
07/12/09

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This is quite,

a novel idea.

A modular phone,

that belongs in ikea.

I can see this in going,

in a whole new direction,

When somebody makes,

a vibrator extension.

When your phone

is on "vibrate"

It's meaning is now

new on the slate.

This could begin,

a new industry,

Physical Phone-sex,

ecstasy!

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Con Seannery
07/12/09

@Xterm11_is Rhyming:

You think your rhymes, your lyrics, are quite clever,

You think you've got all those skills which it takes,

But I'll tell you what you've considered, never,

Do not just rhythm, just metric, poets make,

Your talent, your execution, are strong,

Your verse, it is crafted quite distinctly,

Technically, nothing you have done is wrong,

And your messages, delivered succinctly,

A worthy opponent, indeed you are,

And off of the tongue, your verse always rolls,

But your reputation, surely I'll mar,

And your poems, I'll rake over the coals!

You made a mistake, you thought you'd won it,

While your verse is free-form, mine is a sonnet!
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Con Seannery
07/13/09

@Con Seannery: I think I'll recycle this baby. I laid it down on a SUNDAY. Nobody's gonna see this...
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MrBlahBlah
02/11/09

In reply to Modu's Modular Cellphone Jacket System Coming In Q2
hmmm doesn't really fit the giz audience, but i bet it could have some widespread appeal outside of the geek community that demands a smartphone
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Shadowlayer
02/11/09

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Not bad, but the UI seems kinda obsolete.
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