I just bought a zzzPhone!
Following on from Ricky’s post about the launch of custom phone manufacturer, zzzPhone, I went along and spec’ed out my own custom handset.
7 megapixel camera. GPS. Dark red, double power battery. What an enlightening and exciting experience that was.
Alas, at just shy of $700 dollars I did balk.
But I’ve done my blogger duty to you, dear reader. I’ve just ordered one via the rather rickety zzzPhone ordering process. Dell, it ain’t. However it’s PayPal enabled which gave me a lot security.
Instead of the 700-dollar-mamma that I was going to order, I went ahead and bought the bog-standard 149 dollar one. I also paid for express delivery.
The arse? It’s used my PayPal address for the delivery address. Bit annoying that; since I’m in San Francisco at the moment and not London. Still, I got the confirmation email from them. I’ll keep you updated…
BRILLIANT Ewan! I’m excited to see some live pics and a hands-on with it.
Posted by Ricky on February 6th, 2008 at 5:00 am.Oh this is fascinating. If this thing’s any good it would be fantastic to be able finally to spec what you need (well, want) in a smartphone. I’ve only had my N95 8GB for 3 days, but already I’m thinking that if the slider and D-pad give up the ghost I could order a zzzPhone - but I’d need it to do 3G. Keep us posted Ewan…
Posted by MarkW on February 6th, 2008 at 11:26 am.Is the name a play on the eeepc?
And what is a ’second front facing camera’?
And where’s the WiFi?
Who’s behind it and is it really built to order, or do they have a bunch of each variation. Hmmmmm. On second thought, that would be about a zillion models, so must be custom. Nice.
Posted by Mike on February 6th, 2008 at 7:06 pm.This could be a really interesting development, especially if the form factor means that it’s an attractive phone to be seen with. One to watch …
Posted by Patrick on February 6th, 2008 at 10:09 pm.[...] Ricky at SMS Text News just asked if anyone would be willing to order one of the phones as a test, Ewan at the same blog takes the bait and ordered a phone for $149. And finally, today Jack Cook from Mobility Site joins [...]
Posted by Mobile Moves » Blog Archive » Daily mobile: zzzPhone doubts, ‘08 mobile players - OCRegister.com on February 7th, 2008 at 1:27 am.I’d probably buy it if there was a VGA screen upgrade.
Posted by Steve on February 7th, 2008 at 2:32 am.Ewan_
I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you. I hope it does so I can read your thoughts on the quality of the phone’s hardware and software. Too bad you didn’t spring for the $700 phone - 7 megapixels and a double battery just might have been worth it.
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Posted by Sonya Smith on February 7th, 2008 at 3:56 am.Is this new community zzzPhone site (http://zzzphone.org) hopeless? Maybe not…
Posted by zzzSkeptic on February 9th, 2008 at 10:14 am.Cumon, post a review!
Posted by Zak on February 27th, 2008 at 6:59 am.I will Zak, it just hasn’t arrived yet!
Posted by Ewan on February 27th, 2008 at 7:32 am.has it arrived yet dude…. its been over a month
Posted by Raghav on March 10th, 2008 at 1:48 am.It might have arrived… I missed the postman the other day when he arrived with a package so I will pop down to the post office and check shortly
Posted by Ewan on March 10th, 2008 at 12:12 pm.arrived yet?
Posted by Zak on March 13th, 2008 at 8:36 pm.so what happened….review buddy…
Posted by Raghav on March 17th, 2008 at 5:34 am.So Ewan ! Did you get it ? Or it is a scam..
Posted by Mario on March 17th, 2008 at 2:06 pm.lol total scam
Posted by Zak on March 19th, 2008 at 11:42 pm.Any news about this? Have you contacted them? It suck if it’s a scam
Posted by Pedro on March 30th, 2008 at 7:05 pm.Ordered Feb. 17, 2008 with 7mp camera and larger memory but after two months still no delivery. I requested my money back last week, no answer from them so i take it i have lost USD 354 on a scam.
Posted by Wim on April 16th, 2008 at 10:20 pm.Let this be a warning to you.
I had ordered my phone around early March… got it… it is the BIGGEST piece of shit in the world. I paid 5 Megapixel, they sent 1.3, no WIFI, they have a legal battle with SKYPE, no LED light, the battery once inserted does not come out. I paid approx 350 as well. I have requested my money back as well from PAYPAL…
p.s. checkout their website. They have an add on feature of gold plating and 14KT diamonds for $225,000. Way to make the website look more legit.
Posted by Raghav on April 19th, 2008 at 8:09 am.I too had ordered a phone since February and had not received anything. I have prove through my gmail and paypal that this is a scam. Buyers beware and spread the word so others won’t be fool to order one.
Posted by Scammed Buyer on April 22nd, 2008 at 8:35 pm.