Gadgets: iCEphone
By Jay Garrett
Forget the iPhone and say hello iCEphone!
The in Case of Emergency Phone is aiming to be the “Swiss Army knife of mobiles” and dubbed as a micro-notebook by its manufacturer.
Ok, this thing doesn't have a bunch of blades, a tool for removing scouts from horses hooves or even a toothpick but it does pack quite a few helpful things in its three-tiered shell.
For starters the iCEphone has software that can not only walk you through common medical emergencies like administering CPR, but it can one-touch dial your doctor, the nearest hospital and 911 at the same time. Hopefully they'll change that to 999 if it comes here – although 911 actually will work in the UK; you knew that, right?
The makers, Medical Phone, decided that the only way to get everything into a handset just larger than an N95 was to use a Jacobs Ladder-style hinge.
This funky hinge connects the 3 panels which feature a full QWERTY keyboard, a 3-inch 400 x 240 resolution touchscreen and a mouse / track pad.
Other goodies are dual SIM card slots, HSDPA support, quad-band GSM connectivity, GPS, a 3.1megapixel camera, WiFi and a 532MHz Freescale iMX31 CPU.
It’s soon to be released in Thailand and then should be hitting the UK sometime in Spring when it will cost around £700
If you want to see more check out the YouTube vid below
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Jay Garrett is a a professional bass player and gadget junkie. Check out his blog at idleparis.co.uk
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