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[The Faceless Master]

Get ready for your phone to go where no phone has gone before.

Sona Mobile and Viacom Consumer Products are set to offer a Star Trek communicator-themed mobile device that will let users make calls, play video clips, play online Star Trek games and surf the internet.

The cool gadgetry on the classic TV series has made dreamers drool since the first time Captain Kirk barked the words "Beam me up, Scotty!" into his little black box and snapped it shut. But this is the first time Viacom, which owns the rights to the TV and movie franchise, has put its licensed imprint on such a device.

The special-edition Star Trek Communicator Phone is part of the ramping-up of events and promotions tied to the 40th anniversary of the Star Trek franchise next year. But the timing was also right because "the technology is better now," said Sandi Isaacs, VP of interactive at Viacom Consumer Products. "With the prior generations of handsets and mobiles, it was really hard to give consumers a rich experience."

Source: Wired News

so what's the other setting on the phone? fun?

:lol :lol :lol

 

[8bit]

Set phasers to fun!

 

[Outcast2004]

Marketing to be focused to the 35 yr old and older virgins who live in their parents basements.

Advertising for this phone will be located on;

Advanced D&D manuals
Mt. Dew bottles and cans
Funions
Twinkies and HoHos.

 

[acidviper]

I would not mind a wireless mic/receiver like in TNG, but the big lunky things from the original Star Trek are just begging for an ass kicking.

 

[Cerebral Palsy]

:lol so sad

 

[number386]

Set phasers to fun!

+2

 

[weehomer]

:lol so sad

Set phasers to sad!

 

[belgurdo]

Marketing to be focused to the 35 yr old and older virgins who live in their parents basements.

Advertising for this phone will be located on;

Advanced D&D manuals
Mt. Dew bottles and cans
Funions
Twinkies and HoHos.

I bet you've pre-ordered two

 

[Phoenix]

I bet you've pre-ordered two

If they are limited edition I will... they'll be worth their weight in gold to Trekkies when Trek resurges 10 years from now.

 

[Flynn]

This could be a cool trend, I love to see novelty mobile phones built in the shape of old-school princess phones, bananas or whatever else people can think up. Right now phones all pretty much look the same. It would be cool to see shit get shaken up a little bit.

 

[Phoenix]

Yes, because we'd all want to carry around something that looks unique and stupid

 

[Flynn]

Yes, because we'd all want to carry around something that looks unique and stupid

Hey, there's plenty pointlesss, ugly, stupid shit out there in the world. Just walk into a Spencer Gifts. Why not let mobile phones get stupid too?