Is it a dream phone or a pipe dream?
Go to The01Phone.com and you’ll see a couple of shots of a revolutionary smartphone-looking device like none you’ve ever seen, alongside it a real-time clock counting down the days: hours: minutes: seconds until this alleged earth-shattering new entry into the smartphone market makes its debut. But what is the 01 Phone? And is it real? Or just a hoax?
If rumors are to be believed, the 01 Phone looks poised to debut atop the smartphone pyramid, unseating even the best of the best like the iPhone, the Xperia, the BlackBerry Bold, the Samsung Instinct, the Palm Treo Pro, and all the rest.
For starters, the 01 Phone supposedly boasts a 32 GB of internal flash memory, more than any other device available, and double that of the highest-capacity model of the industry leading iPhone 3G. Oh yeah, and that reminds us, this novel concept that may one day be a real device is, of course, 3G capable too.
It has a “laser QWERTY” keyboard which, best as we can tell, means that it projects the image of a keyboard onto the surface in front of it which you can then type upon like an actual physical keyboard. At least, that’s what the pictures makes it look like.
A quick Google search for “laser QWERTY” doesn’t reveal anything appearing remotely similar, so we’re suspect, to be sure. But there is the I-Tech Virtual Keyboard, which at least gives the concept of the laser QWERTY some real-life credibility.
The entire face of the device (as opposed to just most of it, like with the iPhone and it’s attempted assassins) is a touchscreen.
The 01 Phone also has a front camera to use for video calling and a 5.0 megapixel camera for taking digital photos. 5.0 megapixels! This means anyone using the thing would basically be taking pictures like a professional photographer, as you can hardly find a smartphone with anything more than a 3.0 megapixel digital camera built-in these days, and that seems more than enough for the average user.
So the question is once again asked... is it real or make believe.
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