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Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

maven2k — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:05:35 EDT

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

maven2k

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

kickace — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:42:58 EDT

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

must mean something

kickace

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

joe23521 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:33:50 EDT

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

joe23521

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

ideaman2020 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:50:27 EDT

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

ideaman2020

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

ideaman2020 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:49:20 EDT

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]

ideaman2020

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

nachobel — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:41:48 EDT

@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.

nachobel

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

thechansen — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:24:14 EDT

@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).

thechansen

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

nutbastard — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:19:50 EDT

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

nutbastard

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

Way — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:17:55 EDT

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

Way

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

The Full English Please!! — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:58:56 EDT

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!!

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

DeadWriter — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:58:41 EDT

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.

DeadWriter

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

gusnyc.com — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:55:33 EDT

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

gusnyc.com

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

Nemo — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:53:00 EDT

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.

Nemo

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

VTFootballGrad — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:50:05 EDT

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

VTFootballGrad

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

tobedetermined — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:49:41 EDT

@DeadWriter: Definitely not the Chinese

tobedetermined

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

VTFootballGrad — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:48:21 EDT

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

VTFootballGrad

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

Curves — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:48:21 EDT

1-800-Beelzebub

Curves

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

DeadWriter — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:45:58 EDT

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.

DeadWriter

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

VTFootballGrad — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:45:57 EDT

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.

VTFootballGrad

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

cyborgtroy — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:43:05 EDT

"confident in their 32,800mAh battery."

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

cyborgtroy

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

thechansen — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:41:22 EDT

Satan ain't so bad

thechansen

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

Way — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:36:57 EDT

@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.

Way

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

Y2KGTP — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:33:04 EDT

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

Y2KGTP

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

rimplestultskin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:29:20 EDT

...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.

rimplestultskin

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

bpatten — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:29:09 EDT

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

(awesome VB reference)

bpatten

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

JJ910 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:27:58 EDT

Typo

JJ910

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

JJ910 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:27:45 EDT

Its clearly a typo! Get over it.

JJ910

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

tamoko — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:27:02 EDT

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

tamoko

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

frndlybnny — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:25:01 EDT

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

frndlybnny

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

LJN — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:24:13 EDT

I've sold my soul for less...

LJN

Cellphone Delivers 666 Days of Standby, Eternal Damnation, a Camera

SchruteBuck — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:14:05 EDT

Marketing 101 - Round down.

SchruteBuck