Cigerette and Lighter Cell Phones a Smoker’s Paradise

Armanstein — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:56:44 +0000

Here in the United States we have our Blackberries, iPhones, Pre’s, and Google phones. These phones do stuff like allow us to surf the web, check our Facebook accounts, and play fancy games. However, one thing I’m 100% sure they can’t do is hold cigarettes and light cigarettes. Take that iPhone!

Unfortunately you’ll need two phones in order to do this, but this is a pretty revolutionary step in the cell phone industry. Imagine while everyone is texting away like idiots on their fancy “smart phones” how you’ll be pulling out a “fag” (slang for cigarette) out of one cell phone and lighting it with your other cell phone. Why do you have 2 phones? It’s because you are THAT important.

Let’s take a look at these two wondrous pieces of Chinese technology.

Cigarette Box Cell Phone

Interestingly named the “Marlbara 3838 Multimedia Phone” (not to be confused with the cigarette line of “Marlboros.” it costs anywhere from $130 to $160 (depending on which Chinese exporter you buy from) unlocked. If you happen to purchase one of these Marlbara phones here’s what you get:

A cell phone shaped like a box of cigarettes
Potential to hold 7 actual real cigarettes
A 0.8 megapixel camera
Lung or brain cancer or both

Unfortunately for our US brethren and friends this phone only operates on GSM 900/1800 which Americans can’t use it (we operate on 850/1900 mostly).

To get a better idea what this phone looks like in person we found this Chinese video of the same phone, however, the phone featured in the video is not Marlboro branded:

Lighter Cell Phone

The official name of this fire-starting phone is the Seabright Lighter Phone SB6309. The manufacturer has captured the essence of their phone in this eloquent poem posted on its product page:

SB6309 The world’s first mobile phone with lighter!

Patent product Gold cigarette lighter

Defend wind,

No gas,

Never blew out

Suit for high altitude areas

If you are not into poetry or poor Chinese-English translations this just says the lighter will light your cigarettes in basically any condition. It’s very similar to your car cigarette later.

At around $150 you get the lighter and some other features:

Dual sim card (for people who use more than one cell service)
1.3 megapixel camera
FM radio
Bluetooth…
GSM Quad-band

The biggest thing this phone has going for it (after the fact that has a built-in lighter) is the fact that you can also use this phone in the United States. So smokers and pyromaniacs rejoice.

Conclusion

For $280 you can become the ultimate techie smoking nerd by purchasing both the Marlbara cigarette carrying phone and the Seabright lighter phone. Too bad you won’t be able to use the Marlbara here in the United States, but at least it can still hold cigarettes and light them in “high altitude areas.”

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LG Watch Phone: Tells Time and Talks to You

Armanstein — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:31:43 +0000

LG Electronics has announced to the world their upcoming LG GD910 watch cell phone. What makes the GD 910 unique is that it’s a 3g touch interface cell phone that straps around your wrist and isn’t ridiculously huge as you would expect. More importantly it isn’t ugly to look at either.

This video tour should give you a good idea of the cool factor this phone will provide:

If you listen to the demonstrator closely in the video above you’ll notice that he mentions that this watch phone has an impressive 247 hours of standby time. However, what he fails to mention is the 2 hours talk time you get. Not exactly the phone for chatterboxes. The slide they show briefly in the video shows the impressive talk time.

If this is something that piques your fancy you can pick one up for a rumored price of 1000 pounds (or about $1600) when it gets released in the UK. LG currently has no plans on bringing this phone to the United States so at least you saved yourself $1600. However, if you really want to get it, Dynamism (which imports all kinds of fancy electronics from Asia) is taking email addresses down and will notify interested buyers when the LG GD910 becomes available for purchase. It will probably be a lot of money, but at least you’ll be one of the few owners of this phone instead of becoming one of the 40 million iPhone users out there.

While it would be nice to keep my pockets “crap” free I don’t know if I would always want to be wearing a watch around. I can’t imagine what kind of tan lines I would get while wearing this.

FuncFash-ness: 7/10

Functional: 3/5 (you get a touchscreen and some other standard cell phone features, but talk time is kinda lame)
Fashionable: 4/5 (it’s pretty small and unique…if you own one you’ll get coolness points)

Where to Buy:

Unfortunately no US stores are planning on carrying the LG GD910 watch phone, but Dynamism is taking kind of pseudo pre-orders (or really just creating an email list) that once they get their hands on the phone they’ll notify interested buyers. No word on pricing (but expect something over at least $1000).

Features:

1.43 in touch screen
Bluetooth
Integrated speakerphone
2gb of internal memory
mp3 playback
0.3 megapixel camera
2 hours talk time / 247 hours standby time

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