Super Secret “Zumba” Phone

I don't know, sounds like vaporware.

So secret that they can't show a demonstration but they show how it's supposed to work? Sounds like a prototype that doesn't work... or as we call it in the IT world...vaporware.
 
Not so sure about their claim that the website would be safe... we know how that one goes. On top of that, aside from the voice-to-text feature/voice recognition, don't we already have better looking bluetooth headsets?
 
Well, I call BS on anyone who claims that something is 100% secure. This looks like a ploy to dup in investors to me.
 
I have to agree. It all sounds really good, almost too good.

I guess we will just have to see if it comes out.
 
i dont think its too good to be true. but i also dont think that phone will sell that well. (no screen, all voice commands and sometimes you just dont want to talk) but if their technology is accurate, then they could sell a shitload of their software/hardware to cellphone manufacturers.
 
I also think their software has more value than the device. If all the data is on the website then it won't take long before the security breaches become public on top profile users. The phone doesn't look that great anyway. Headset looks ugly and women won't think it's too stylish either. I like his sweatship full of women doing the soddering. I suppose to have guys do it would cost more money.
 
Looks very awkward to wear, and I wear BTE hearing aids.
 
spacetrader said:
i dont think its too good to be true. but i also dont think that phone will sell that well. (no screen, all voice commands and sometimes you just dont want to talk).....
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Yes because that clear part of the phone on the front where the buttons are, is not a screen.
 
calikool said:
I also think their software has more value than the device. If all the data is on the website then it won't take long before the security breaches become public on top profile users. The phone doesn't look that great anyway. Headset looks ugly and women won't think it's too stylish either. I like his sweatship full of women doing the soddering. I suppose to have guys do it would cost more money.
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That headset needs a Prada logo or some Prada/Chanel/Gucci endorsement.... women here will suck that right up.
 
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lol.. I like their facility. They have people look like they're working by stripping and soldering huge gauge wires onto big green PCB boards.
 
I have a phone here that will not only do what theirs does, but more. Mine can cook, clean, walk the dog and in those lonely nights, will take the place of your wife/girlfriend.
Any one want to lend money for me to mass produce this? And sorry, I can't give you a demo cause it is super secret. I can tell you how it works but not show you.



BULLSH*T.
 
Any investor that would be duped into funding this sort of thing with no demo deserves what they get.

I really wonder though what demographic would be interested in this sort of thing.
 
Exavior said:
I have to agree. It all sounds really good, almost too good.

I guess we will just have to see if it comes out.
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Umm, you do realize all it does is take a normal phone, with a wireless headset, and does voice recognition? You store your contacts on the company's servers, you push a button and speak the name of the person you want, it does voice recognition, then calls them.

I wouldn't jump on the company making it though as a scam - it seems more like the news station was trying to hype the story than the company. The guy for the company says it's the first "truly accurate voice recognition", the news station is the one that turned that into "first completely handfree phone!!!!"
 
why all the secrecy over a handset that doesn't sound like it's doing anything overly remarkable? i call shens until a tech demo presents itself.
 
No screen. My WinMo phone has some okay voice recognition and interaction capability. But this is definitely something that will interest a lot of people.

As I've said, this space is just getting started. The iPhone will soon be just another device. Actually it already is.
 
Am I the only who who isn't impressed with a bluetooth earpiece that gets information normally stored in a phone from a website instead? How is this earth-shattering technology?
 
If what they have is indeed 'truly accurate voice recognition', then - as someone has already posted - the company will be able to sell the software for a tidy sum. Imagine an iPod that you don't have to dick about with when you're driving. I'd buy that – along with plenty of other guff that you currently have to get your digits out for.
 
This looks extremely lame unless you need to talk to others, or like to talk to yourself a lot. Plus it looks very awkward to wear. I definitely would not buy one of these. What's the fun of a phone without a screen? It may have some good applications but I can see this failing once it gets to the mainstream.
 
Azhar said:
Looks very awkward to wear, and I wear BTE hearing aids.
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Ditto. And it was hard enough to find a handset that wouldn't bleed massive amounts of interference into mine. (Go CDMA. If everything goes GSM, I'm fucked.)
 
w1retap said:
lol.. I like their facility. They have people look like they're working by stripping and soldering huge gauge wires onto big green PCB boards.
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Haha, I noticed that too. I was like those are bigger than the wires I used to solder to XBOX1 boards. I call shens!

I doubt it it will take off, because the main problem is that no website is 100% secure and those news reporters are straight up lying. 100% Secure? Tell that to Monster.com or Macworld.com, or any number of institutions that get their sites hacked on a regular basis. The best part of my phone is that i can export to my local pc and import them in, at MY leisure. If there is an internet/network outage, there goes your phonebook.
 
Chances are the stuff you saw being built was ejector seat stuff. I have my doubts about it, so many things that dont add up. What they might have though is an idea or some software as some have said might be good for licence. Though I cant see them having a huge team of software/tech developers.

As I've seen on Dragons Den time and time again folks come on thinking they have a great idea but in the end there is nothing there. Might even be they havent developed it but licenced it from some firm in China? Stranger things.....
 
Will fail because no computer can accurately interpret a human's conversations. Either direction.
 
TechieSooner said:
Will fail because no computer can accurately interpret a human's conversations. Either direction.
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I wouldn't be too sure about that. Even my WinMo phone is incredibly accurate with its dialing and navigation system as long as background noise is low.

The voice recognition is Windows is almost spot on and even better with training. And text the text to speech it good enough to read a lot of documents.

I don't think that they technology that's all that groundbreaking but they my have great implementation of it. Still, no screen?
 
"A website that is 100% secure." I'm going to love all the Site has been hacked by blah blah the first 6 months in service.
 
Wait a minute...

You speak into this bad-looking earpiece thing, then the phone translates your voice into text, then it sends the text message to another person, then the other person asks their phone to read the text to them through another bad-looking earpiece thing.

So, it's basically voice-recognition text messaging. Does anyone else see the irony here?
 
HOCP4ME said:
Wait a minute...

You speak into this bad-looking earpiece thing, then the phone translates your voice into text, then it sends the text message to another person, then the other person asks their phone to read the text to them through another bad-looking earpiece thing.

So, it's basically voice-recognition text messaging. Does anyone else see the irony here?
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Yea, it'd just be easier to call the person on the other end... lol

Text messaging is handy because it's non-intrusive and you can read and send them without having to use voice to interrupt anyone else around you. This device defeats th purpose. Same for emails.
 
wake me up when my phone can read my thoughts...

on second though.. bad idea..
 
Well you can still keep the same advantages of text messaging. You send a text when you want to just relay a message without the required greeting, blah blah that phone etiquette demands. So it's basically voice text-messaging, when u need to send a text but you are driving, doin it doggystyle. or catching a lewinksy. The person on the other line doesn't need this phone receive the text.
 
XamediX said:
The person on the other line doesn't need this phone receive the text.
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So this company wants to bank off that hope that their device WON'T catch on in a big way?

Yup, that's some awesome business sense right there. Yet another reason why it's doomed from the start.
 
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