Modu showcases production phone and accessories
by Sean Cooper 
posted Feb 11th 2009 at 6:01AM
Thought you'd seen the last of Modu, did you? Well, you were dead wrong, Dov Moran and his team have been hard at work -- since we last chatted with them at Mobile World Congress in '08 -- finishing the modular device that was definitely one of the gems of the show last year. As a recap, the Modu's charm and versatility lays in the fact that the handset proper (pictured left) can be moved from one Modu Jacket (right) to another depending on the type of functionality needed. The heart of the magic lies in the tiny and light -- lightest handset in the world we're told -- Modu phone unit, and while details are thin, we know it has been rebuilt to be tougher, memory has been upped to 2GB, and is running a new UI. Also launching are 4 jackets that Modu slips into: the night jacket, street-art jacket, classic, and express. Each jacket (priced from $25 up to $100) can add features the Modu itself doesn't have, like night imaging, stereo speakers, music functionality, gaming, or just about anything else you can dream up. Dov stands by his hopes to get this thing into peoples hands with 2 jackets for a cool $200, here's hoping they land here soon. Pics are after the break and expect a pile more action poses as soon as we land in Barcelona Monday.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
m @ Feb 11th 2009 6:28AM
this is like art galleries ... stuff make look interesting when you look at it ....
BUT YOU WILL EVER THINK ABOUT BUYING ONE .... ! ehehhe
CJ @ Feb 11th 2009 8:29AM
I dunno... For the right price, this could find a niche of quite a dedicated userbase.
People who don't need an all-in-one phone (like the Omnia or iPhone), but still occasionally want to browse the web, play MP3s, etc.
RemDX @ Feb 11th 2009 8:57AM
This phone would start out cheap but end up being one of the most expensive phones out there.
There's a jacket out there for everything right?
Unless the base has some ungodly processing power, they just won't be able to keep up with other phones that don't require you to swap shit out all the time.
Ryno @ Feb 11th 2009 10:57AM
Who's the carrier? I would like it to beVerizon Wireless please :)
oakie @ Feb 11th 2009 12:22PM
this was cool 2 years ago when they first announced it. now it's just a solution looking for a problem.