Hummer makes a cell phone

MachinistGeneral Motors is releasing a Hummer-branded phone in Europe. It's hard not to make jokes about battery life or whether you'll need to buy carbon offsets to use the thing.

Basically it looks like a standard slider phone outfitted either in jungle camo, emergency yellow, or industrial steel. Other specs for the ridiculous device: 2-inch screen, 2 megapixel camera, 256 MB of memory, battery life unknown. All for around $400, or a half-day's Hummer gas money.

[From Boy Genius Report / Unwired View.]

Posted in: Cell Phones, Gadgets

About Machinist

Cyrus Farivar is a freelance technology journalist who regularly reports for National Public Radio, PRI's The World, The Economist and others. His forthcoming book is "The Internet of Elsewhere."

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