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What happens when rip-off artists run out of ideas – an ugly mish-mash flip/candybar phone

By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 at 7:13 PM

Candybar flip phone crapThis just might be the worst phone we’ve ever seen. Not just in terms of design and form-factor, but also in terms of nonsensically ripping off trademarks. Of course it’s from China, but that’s not the point. This thing might be the result of knock-off artists having run out of ideas (well, things to copy, really).

We can’t be the only ones offended by this phone? As the pictures show, this thing is both a flip-phone and a candybar, but the execution of the design is piss-poor. It’s like these guys just fused two phones together, and it’s got the girth to back that up – we’re going to call this design a brick-phone.

And, as if the designers of this phone hadn’t screwed up badly enough, they covered it in faux gold and fake diamonds – straight tacky. Then there’s the RAZR-esque keypad, but then again, everyone’s taken design cues from the RAZR’s keypad. Oh, and don’t forget the dual branding – apparently this thing is used on both 3 and T-mobile’s networks.

Who cares about the specs, they don’t matter. Just hit the link for more pics of this monstrosity.

Candybar flip phone crap

Candybar flip phone crap

Candybar flip phone crap

Candybar flip phone crap

[Via: Just Another Mobile Phone Blog]

Pics from M8cool.com

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Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...