Motorola Unveils Phone That Bends

An anonymous reader writes "According to CNET, who are out at 3GSM in Barcelona, Motorola has unveiled a phone that bends in order to make putting it up to your face more comfortable. The Motorola Z8, as the bendy phone is called, runs on a Symbian based platform and also displays video at up to 30 frames per second."

About time

[iamacat]

Usually it's users who have to bend over for cell companies.

Wow! It does all that?

[ArcherB]

Can you make phone calls with it?

(Yo dog! Where you at?!!?)

beaten to the punch

[President_Camacho]

Motorola has unveiled a phone that bends in order to make putting it up to your face more comfortable.

I can already accomplish "kick & slide" functionality with my treo 650. Which is usually what I want to do when it crashes.

What else can they get to bend?

[Radon360]

Now if they can only make it bend the RF signal over that damned hill in front of the cell tower...

Hmm

[Lithdren]

if this thing has an option to vibrate, instead of ring, they got a winner on their hands! What? Why are you looking at me like that..

The Eclectic Slide

[fahrbot-bot]

Taking a lesson from Sony, Motorola has declared this phone the winner in the bendy-slider phone format. In addition, remarked a Motorola talking-head, "we were going to call it the 'Eclectic Slide', but were afraid we'd get sued by Richard Silver [slashdot.org]".

Re:Hmm

[Anonymous Coward]

that would be the Motorola Sybian based phone

Bullies

[yintercept]

The were several bullies at the school that I attended; So, I developed a face that bends.

Re:Ok..ya know....that was harsh...

[Feanturi]

The phone that conforms to your face! ...with 4 microphones like the others have, plus a 5th mic for those hard-to-hear conversations.

Re:Nice Astroturfing

[rossifer]

Yawn.

Indeed.

The only thing that might be newsworthy about a Motorola phone is if they decided to license Nokia's interface. Every time I think back to the last (so far only) Motorola phone I had the misfortune of spending a fortune on, I recall the glee and joy when I smeared that phone between a rapidly dropping 20 pound sledgehammer and a large granite boulder at midnight under the full moon...

My rage and fury were all about the absolutely horrific user interface. Yes, it was that bad.

The beer consumed in preparation for the demolition of the hell spawn (Mot 770) was rather tasty, however :)

Ross

Kinkyphone!

[mrbluze]

Wow, kinky! A bendy phone that runs on a syb.. oh, a symbian! nevermind!

Kiss my shiney plastic...

[straponego]

Man, I want a bender phone. One you can bend to any angle: 30 degrees, 32 degrees, you name it. 31...