Brick is back with the Mini MOB retro mobile

Is the mobile phone really mature enough for brick phones to make a retro comeback? According to the makers of the ironically named Mini MOB, the answer to that is yes. The Mini MOB is definitely designed in the retro brick phone style, but at only 3.5 cm wide, it could probably be considered a scale model. It includes some pretty standard specs -- camera, MP3 player, 128 MB card for the SD slot -- but also happens to have an amazing battery life of 30 days standby, and a full 72 hours of continuous talk time! That's almost enough to get us interested in picking one up, but at £160 ($320+) it ain't an easy decision.

[Via TechDigest]

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 2nd 2007 3:08AM]

Finally, a nice voluptuous mobile!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 2nd 2007 2:38PM]

I'd like one.. but I would like to see more specs on it.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 2nd 2007 2:53PM]

A phone with a gigantic battery, retro styling or not, would be a welcome addition to all the major carriers (I would think). There are always a few people like my dad who think any handset that folds, slides, or flips and weighs less than 8 oz is flimsy and three days of standby -- what the hell good is that? Casio's G'zOne does the rugged thing well but the battery performance is pretty standard. The iDen/Nextel marketing leads me to believe that Motorola "gets" this demographic but all they do is make phones look tough (i560); doesn't mean they are.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 3rd 2007 2:21AM]

quad band gsm?