Phone news Modu creates tiniest phone ever Modu creates tiniest phone ever |
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| Written by Matt Chapman | ||||
| Wednesday, 06 February 2008 | ||||
Page 1 of 2  Those of us who lived through the 80s and suffered the curse of carrying brick-sized phones are pretty impressed with where the humble mobile phone has gone today. But if you think your handset is iccle, then a device called Modu could be about to change your mind on that...
The new product from Israeli company Modu Mobile has officially been named by the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s lightest phone. “Modu starts with a tiny handset, which by the Guinness World Record is the lightest phone in the world – it’s 40.1 grams,” Zack Weisfeld, vice president of marketing at Modu told AbsoluteGadget.com. Despite its 72mm x 37mm x 7.8mm dimensions it does “everything that a sophisticated cellphone does, according to Weisfeld. “You can use it anywhere in the world, it can send and receive SMS, it has a speaker, it has Bluetooth, it’s an MP3 player with at least 1GB of storage on it and it acts as a mass storage USB flash drive,” Weisfeld said. “It’s tiny, but it’s the right size to make it functional, to make you be able to dial numbers.” But while size matters, that’s not all this innovative little number has to offer. (Continued on next page)
 A teaser shot of Modu's tiny mobile phone from a video on the Mdou website |
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