i-mobile's 309 DDZ musicphone

Our pal Michael Sommer just hooked us up with the 309 DDZ, a compact new musicphone being sold in Thailand by an outfit called i-mobile. Of course, it's not hard to keep the size down when you leave out all the internal memory (there's a TransFlash memory card slot for storing all your tunes), but even so, we weren't entirely convinced that this thing was both an MP3 player and a cellphone until we we popped out the battery to reveal an honest-to-goodness SIM card slot. Not likely to turn up over here anytime soon, but for what it's worth the 309 DDZ does also sport an FM tuner, a proper 3.5mm headphone jack, and a jog dial on the side for navigation.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 13th 2006 2:01AM]

If one hadn't known any better, one would think that's the fabled iPhone.

Anyway, we'll see how Apple will react to the 'i' designation on the thing... Maybe they'll swoop down to Thailand and relabel the thing with chrome and off white casing?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 13th 2006 6:19PM]

Pretty interesting looking phone. I like the size and look of it.