Orange and disposable pen maker Bic are joining forces to launch a 49 EUR BicPhone, that will come with the battery pre-charged, and one hour of call time. The phone will be widely available across France from 7th August. The phone is made by a Chinese ODM called TCL, and will support just voice and text.
As Bic is well-known for it’s bright colour pens (and shavers and lighters), you can expect the phone in lots of garish nice colours. Latterly, the phones are also going to get store-space in Orange’s shops.
I was going to say this story was nothing to write home about, but that is such a poor pun….. 😀
[Via: Telecom Paper]