A photo from open sources What is a smartphone in the usual sense of the word the words? Rectangular high-tech gadget with housing made of plastic and metal. The device is clogged with various applications, designed to make life easier for the owner and entertain him. That’s just US smartphone “Runcible” is not able to boast of any of of the aforementioned.
Designers and engineers from the California company “Mohohm” have developed a unique round smartphone with a wooden case. A gadget that does not have any applications is also not has ringtone support and does not vibrate. Externally, “Runcible” is similar on a round pocket watch.
It should be noted that the shell made of real wood looks quite fresh and elegant, given the wooden cases for Electronics went out of fashion in the eighties of the last century. The smartphone is extremely pleasant to the touch, moderately weighty and gorgeous lays down in any hand.
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“Runcible” is running a software system “Firefox OS”, which excludes the possibility of installing any applications. If you wish, you can use web analogues of popular programs, if, of course, you manage to find them on the network.
The only sound alert available to purchasers “Runcible” of people will become specially synthesized unique call bell. The smartphone will not signal any reception of text messages, not about a discharged battery, so as not to distract once again the owner. Wood lid as opposed to durable filling device will wear out relatively quickly, however it can be easily changed.
Mohohm officials say the gadget will appear in American sale later this year. The cost of the device will be high – at the level of premium smartphones from much more famous manufacturers.
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