Disney Launching Android Froyo Phone in Feb.
Why not?
Just after the iPhone and the G1 became available, it seemed everyone was announcing plans to get into the smartphone business. Now that the tech industry has tablets to obsess over, the majority of me-too phones are all but forgotten. However, it seems we have one more late entry to the smartphone bandwagoners convention: Disney.
Disney Mobile Japan has revealed its plans to launch a Froyo-powered touchscreen smartphone in February of this year. Obviously, the blogosphere is quick to point out that Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ prominent placement on the Disney board means this announcement is a bit out of left field, but we’re not ones to turn our noses up at another Froyo handset.
Specwise, there’s not much in the way of information available just yet. We know that it will have a 3.8-inch display, support for Flash, and users will get to choose from a variety of original Disney-themed cases, but there’s not much else to go on. Disney is promising more details at the end of this month so stay tuned for that. Hopefully by then we'll know if this thing will ever make it Stateside.
(via ZDNet)
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OH MY GOD! *facepalm* you win this round apple fanyboys....
Disney?
Mickey Mouse?
Just Wait, There is gonna be a Warner Bros. Phone.
Uhg... but at the same time... IN YOUR FACE STEVE!
I can just imagine how this went at a Disney board meeting
Disney? Any particular case design or form? If not, it is just another usual Android smarties.
Looking forward to a Donald Duck phone!
Yeah, but Goofy ended up with an iPhone4.
Yeah, but Goofy ended up with an iPhone4.
+1 Win comment!
this is... just... hmm.. i would have thought Wal-Mart would have came out with a smartphone before anyone like Disney did....
It's gotta have the craziest shape of them all, remember the Mickey Mouse Digital clocks and watches...... I really hope to see a smart phone like that since kids these days seem to have phones all over....
lol
Great ... An 3.8 inches android phone with pink 15.4 inches Mickey Ears around it. How do we put that in our pockets ;-)
Obviously, marketing targeting kids. Parents, ready your checkbooks...
the phone will have mickey mouse ears for speakers and at best sound like donald duck.
if it works at all, you've just touch the magic.
Yes but you can only buy it inside the park for $500.00
so will it be a poor orphan who is sad and the competition's phone will be badd looking and evil and the "fairy queen" app will come and make it right?
fck disney and all their hannah montanna phones AND THEIR tv shows for tween retards. I hope a sinkhole swallows up everything disney.
At least, there will be more choice for the Phone case than the iPhone 4.
They already have a Disney Mobile in Japan.
Judging by the look of that phone, it will be based off a Sharp IS003 that launched last fall on au.