The name's Ericsson, Sony Ericsson. Everyone's favorite purveyor of
Walkman and
UIQ-based phones seems to have paid good money to get their kit into the latest James Bond flick,
Casino Royale -- and they intend to take full advantage of it, coming to the table with limited edition James Bond versions of the 3.2-megapixel
K790 and K800 Cyber-shot phones. Truth be told, we think that diehard 007 fans might come away a little disappointed with the offerings, seeing how the only thing that makes them special is their new color -- silver -- and some bundled Bond-themed media (wallpaper, ringtones, and the like). Frankly, we'd expect a Bond phone to be
lethal, but we suppose there might be some legal implications involved in putting that kind of thing on the market. At any rate, if silver cameraphones are your thing, better hurry: Sony Ericsson only plans on making them available through the fourth quarter to line up with the movie's release.
[Via
Mobiledia, thanks Allen]
posted Oct 13th 2006 1:53PM
Licence is an accepted (though primarily British) spelling of license. Colour [sic] me unimpressed. :D (BAM!)
Shit, then I go an capitalize the I in my last name. Damn this laptop keyboard! On more pressing matters though, you're right about the phone being unimpressive. And "full specs upon request" seems sort of lazy.
It sure would be nice if Sony Ericsson could deliver on their promises. Where the hell is the K790a? Aside from 2 on eBay and 400,000 K800s, the 'new' silver one will probably be just as much of a disappointment in terms of availability as the black one is.
@ Matt, You can buy the K790a from Sony Ericsson's website, it's $500 though, and we probably won't be seing it on any US carrier any time soon... All in all the K790a in silver still looks to be pretty bad ass.
Casino Royale was produced by Columbia Pictures, which is owned by Sony, so all cell phones, laptops, TVs, etc. in the movie have Sony branding.
Still a cool phone. :)
what a joke.. same lameness as the starwars s710 phone i got.