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The iCEphone is the Swiss Army Knife of handsets

When you face all of these convergence things that are going on, everyone is trying to cram as many functions as they can into their latest smartphone. The only problem with this purpose is that is quite impossible to do it all in a package small enough to carry in your pocket.

Exquisitely designed and beautifully engineered, the iCEphone (In Case of Emergency Phone) effortlessly allows different form factors for different situations. This cutting edge micro notebook touch phone is the Swiss Army Knife of handsets, as it combines 4 main devices packing everything you need into one handy device.

The iCEphone not only maintains significant similarity to familiar devices, but it also minimizes any resistance (either real or psychological) to adopting a new device. It integrates the skills you have already learned when operating other devices.

Its creators call it a micro notebook and you couldn’t disagree, right? The micro notebook has both a desktop and a handheld mode. On the desktop mode the incredibly intuitive keyboard folds out while in the handheld mode the secondary keyboard tucks underneath. But still functions with the keys accesses like a games player, giving proper keyboard functionality in both modes. In both desktop and handheld modes the micro notebook offers: large landscape screen, a 3-inch one, more precisely (to ease web browsing and mobile office working), full QWERTY keyboard functionality, mouse, touch typing and multi-keys strokes (eg Ctrl-Alt-Del), large keys, 2 SIM cards and Windows Mobile.

The iCEphone is a touch phone that allows industry standards for functionality and includes a 3.1 megapixel camera. By automatically switching between landscape and portrait, the iCEphone also offers unsurpassed multimedia options. 3G (HSDPA) makes the phone compatible with all the latest technology offered by the networks.

The iCEphone is a GSM Quadband handset (850/900/1800/1900, GPRS/EDGE) with 7.2 Mbps HSDPA UMTS 2100 connectivity, and is equipped with Freescale iMX31 532 Mhz CPU, a 3-inch 240×400 pixels 65K color transflective TFT touchscreen, Windows Mobile 6.0 Pro OS, 3.1 megapixels camera with autofocus and LED flash, built-in GPS, Wi-Fi b/g and a 1250mAh battery. The device measures 127 x 60.8 x 23.3 millimeters and weighs 210 grams.

Originally designed to meet the exacting requirements of the British military, the iCEphone is a combination of two exciting new products that can either work independently or together: a cross-platform medical software package and a phone that sets a new industry standard in convergence technology.

iCE Aid is designed to assist anyone, anywhere in the world affected by a medical emergency. The software package reduces the time to receive appropriate treatment – the critical factor in emergency medicine. It has three main features: provides step by step emergency first aid software to lead you by the hand and show you what to do and how to do it, it automatically records what has been done and compiles a handover report to give to the emergency services and it holds your medical records in a safe and secure fashion.

The iCEphone is rumored to hit stores in Thailand soon with a release in the UK in March-April 2009, having an expected retail price of about $1,000.