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The thought of low-cost mobile phones sweeping through the US makes us cringe. For India, though, cheap cellphones are big business – big enough that mobile phone maker Olive has just released their vowel-shunning FrvrOn phone as the country’s first handset to supplement its battery pack with a removable AAA battery. The FrvrOn, which we figure to mean “forever on,” follows the lead set by Philips with their AAA-compatible Xenium phones, putting the focus on battery life over high-end features.
Speaking of features, the Olive FrvrOn scrapes the bottom of the barrel. You get a minuscule 1.5-inch CSTN display packing a dismal 128×128 pixels, an FM radio, polyphonic ringtones, games, and speakerphone for your hard-earned Rupees. In the US, you’d be paying $37 for the FrvrOn, which makes sense, given the aforementioned “un-feature-set.”
Still, if you need a last-resort phone that will stay powered until you run out of AAA batteries – all for the price of a moderately fancy meal – the Olive FrvrOn might be a good choice. Of course, you’ll have to deal with getting this thing into the US. Find the Olive website here.
[Via: UnwiredView]
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Will Park
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...
