As small as it gets

Feb 10, 2007 11:14 GMT  ·  By

Everyone likes a different thing in a cellphone. Some people like the phones that come with a huge battery life and basic communication functions, others like their phones with a bit of smart touch and maybe you like the handsets that make you stand out in a crowd.

The phones that will make you the one individual everybody stares at while walking on the street usually have striking colors or feature all sorts of funny interchangeable faces.

But there are some that catch the eye by their very design and, during the last year, I'm sure you saw at least some examples of such cellphones.

The handset I'm writing about here seems to fit quite naturally in this niche of the market. If you decided to buy one of these devices I assure you that people will look after you on the street asking themselves why are you holding your hand next to your ear.

The first thing crossing their mind will be a Bluetooth enabled headset but after seeing the phone you have in the palm of your hand I guess the next step will be to ask permission to take a closer look at it.

The DNET V1 cellphone is exactly the kind of phone that will make everyone curios about it not because of its high-tech spec sheet or its eye-catching colors.

Its small size (97 x 39 x 9.8 mm) is its stand-out feature and, most probably, the one thing that will make you pay the money to have the opportunity to lose it in one of your pockets.

The dual-band GSM phone works on 900 / 1800 MHz networks and features a 1.5 inch 260k colors TFT LCD display with a 128 x 160 pixels resolution, a 1.3 megapixel digital camera, a built-in media player with support for audio and video files (MP3 and MPEG4), miniUSB and GPRS class 10 connectivity and, the dream of every multimedia fan out there, a microSD (T-Flash) memory expansion card slot.

As I've already said, its top feature is its small size and if you're the "make it as small as it gets" kind of guy (girl) I'm sure you have already thought about buying it.