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Too good to be true…

by Imran Ali

February 16, 2008 at 11:39 pm · Filed under Mobile messaging 2.0

Handsets you can configure online before you order? The Dell-ificiation of the handset industry? $149 for a customised or Symbian phone?

<sigh> ZZZphone’s Dell-like business model - enabling users to customise a phone with OS, touchscreens, GPS, dual-SIM cards and memory capacity using the same manufacturers as Motorola and Nokia sounds too good to be true - and it is.

Unfortunately, the handsets aren’t using legally licensed operating systems or indeed radios that’re compatible with US networks it seems; which is a real shame, as there’s huge potential here to positively disrupt the handset marketplace and indeed the carriers.

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SMS Text News » Archives » Still got confidence in the zzzPhone wrote @ February 19th, 2008 at 2:01 am

[...] a note from reader Chris Drake pointing me to these two blog posts (Bostonpocketpc and Mobile Messaging 2.0) — both of which reckon that zzzPhone is ‘a scam’ or ‘too good to be [...]

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