14 DAY TRIAL // Oh yeah! I finally found a cellphone my grandfather will understand how to use! At least he'll get the hang of it more easily than if I would buy him a state of the art cellphone like a Samsung Ultra Edition.
The FY8850 Brick Cellphone I'm talking about weighs in about 354 grams and measures 195 x 41 x 64 mm, the perfect things to make it the ideal weapon of choice of any old lady that would live the house alone and in no fear of being robbed. After all, I think no thief has reached such level of insanity to stick its head into a situation involving a mad 60-70 years old lady and a cellphone with a weight of about half a kilo.
If you are able to find me such an individual, I would want to hire him and open a circus with a canon ball man act because, I suppose, that would be a job a lot more safe than robbing old ladies with brick cellphones on them :).
On the serious side, this phone has a very old fashioned form factor, the one you would see being available in the retail stores around 1996, and adds in a GSM SIM card slot. It also features MP3 and polyphonic ringtones, a CSTN 65k colors LCD display with a resolution of 128x160 pixels, 900/1800/1900 tri-band GSM radio, SMS messaging, Java MIDP 2.0 so you won't miss out on the latest games released on the market, English and Chinese languages and text input, speakerphone, a 500 entries address book, calendar, calculator, alarm clock and call records.
In conclusion, this would be the perfect phone and I would definitely buy it if we were in 1997 or so. Today I would only take it for a short spin just to see the faces of the people seeing me talk with my friends while in the bus.
As the guys selling it say "this phone is a fully functional GSM cell phone; however it is designed to be novelty collectors' item" and this is probably the best description one can make of it.
Being a novelty collector's item, it comes with its drawbacks, the most important ones being the facts that the phone specifications may change without notice (what about that? you could end up buying a totally different phone and not being able to say anything about it :) ) and, how annoying, not being able to change its start-up and shut-down tones.
Why is that annoying? Because they are Chinese songs and you know how much some people hate those! And it gets even worse than this: not only you cannot change those damn songs, but you will not be able to delete them either. Ain't that ironic?
The FY8850 brick phone is sold online at the daydeal.com website for 170 $, so, if you're a serious phone collector, you'd better hurry because I heard they will soon run out of bricks.