Latest Gear Live Videos
HOP1890 Cell Phone
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Smartphones, GPS,
Hop-on has released a new cellie intended for seniors. The HOP1890, available in the U.S. and Europe, features a Color TFT with large text and bigger buttons at a size of 105 x 47 x 18mm. The company provides a call center that will provide emergency calls, directory assistance and setup help. The phone also has GPS/enhanced location based services for those who wander and a one button location finder. This is all very well and good unless said users forget or lose their phone.
Read More 
| Hop-on
Advertisement
Hop-on HOP 1801 Smartphone
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Smartphones, Handhelds,
We already introduced you to Hop-on’s disposable phone, and it seems they have done it again with their inexpensive HOP1800 series smartphones. Their 1801 features a GSM tri-band 900/1800/1900 MHz, a 2.5-inch QVGA 320 x 240 262K TFT touchscreen, and a CMOS cam with 2 Mpixels. At a size of 116 x 64 x 14mm, it also has an external Micro SD card memory slot and Midi 64 polyphonic ring tones.
By the way, we love the comment by Hop-on’s CEO Peter Michaels, “Since Apple is launching their new 3G iPhone, maybe I can talk to Steve Jobs and see if he’ll buy our $10 phone and include it as a give away in their packaging. This way, if you drop your 3G iPhone in the water, you can use the backup to call Apple for another $500 phone. They can call it the Back-up iPhone…”
Read More | Hop-On via Pocket-Lint
Hop-on Disposable Phones
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Smartphones, Editorial, Rumors,
Rumor has it that cell phones may go disposable. Although we traced a press article concerning Hop-ons’ order to create screenless phones from a European distributor at a price of $20.00 each, we have yet to be able to clink on a link on Hop-on’s site successfully. We did find a quote from its president Peter Michaels,
“During our meetings with distributors in Vegas the response to our simple, inexpensive, $20 phone was phenomenal. The initial test purchase order with multiple purchase orders behind it is a big step in introducing Hop-on to Europe.”
Be that as it may, don’t we have enough garbage in the world without having to add to it? We find this in the same category as single use razors and cameras that we finally see less of everyday. We notice that even Kodak has trouble dispensing of theirs and claims that they recycle up to 77% of each one. We are only concerned with that remaining 23%.
Read More | techradar
Advertisement
© Gear Live Inc. {year} – User-posted content, unless source is quoted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Public Domain License. Gear Live graphics, logos, designs, page headers, button icons, videos, articles, blogs, forums, scripts and other service names are the trademarks of Gear Live Inc.