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Worlds First Magnetic Levitation Mobile Phone |
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Magnetic levitation is seeing a new application in modern technology. In addition to bullet trains, the emerging technology will be used in the most familiar consumer gadgets of the day the Mobile Phone.
ESATO NEWS
The Pantech Group, Korea's No. 3 handset maker, Wednesday announced the Seoul-based company will take the wraps off magnetic levitation slider phones next month.Magnetic levitation, called maglev, is a method by which an object is suspended above another object with no physical support other than magnetic fields.
"This will be the world's first cell phone based on magnetic levitation technology. The top half of the slider moves via magnetic power,'' Pantech spokesperson Yang Yu-in said. "Thanks to magnetic forces, its users will be able to almost automatically slide open their phones and vice versa. This is an out-of-box product,'' Yang said.
Another plus of the envisioned handset will be its sleek outlook. With a thickness of just 9.9 millimeters, it will be the first slider phone slimmer than one centimeter.Thus far, slider-type phones have employed springs, which have made the models thicker than bar-type or clamshell-type handsets,'' Yang said.
However, our new products will not need springs and this will be made possible by an ultra-thin form factor that has never seen before,'' she said. Pantech did not disclose the price of the super-slim phone, which will also embrace such functions as a 1.3-megapixel camera, an MP3 player and terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB).
The phones will debut in the domestic market in April and Pantech plans to export the versatile models after checking their commercial viability in Korea.
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chamak
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Interesting 
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Horonaim
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Now thats something you dont see everyday. 
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xnuo
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ummmmm.....nice....
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arien617
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Shouldn't this be in Other Manufacturers or something...
But anyway, cool phone.
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rambo47
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I can see it now. I go to lay it on the counter and it just floats off the edge and hits the floor. That would be my luck.
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Thats a cool looking phone and the Maglev idea is awesome. If they produce a GSM version, I'll buy it for sure.
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mustafabay
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On 2007-04-22 20:05:52, rambo47 wrote:
I can see it now. I go to lay it on the counter and it just floats off the edge and hits the floor. That would be my luck.
The phone doesn't float so you don't have to worry.
What I'd be affraid of is it being too easy to open and close and the phone opening and closing inside your pocket might attract quite a bit of attention.
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First sliderphone thinner than 1cm?? U600??? |
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Posted: 2007-03-22 15:16
