China Cashes in on Olympics With Water Cube Phone

With the next Olympics event four years away, you can expect gadget makers to keep capitalizing on the excitement over this year’s happenings. This Water Cube-inspired cell phone makes a good example. The cell phone’s design mimicks the Water Cube’s unique "soap bubbles" that were used to light up the aquatics center. Featuring a 2.4-inch […]

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With the next Olympics event four years away, you can expect gadget makers to keep capitalizing on the excitement over this year's happenings. This Water Cube-inspired cell phone makes a good example.

The cell phone's design mimicks the Water Cube's unique "soap bubbles"
that were used to light up the aquatics center. Featuring a 2.4-inch
LCD screen, MP3- and video-playing capabilities and a "dual high-definition camera," this looks like a promising cell phone, but
I'd exercise extreme caution buying any gadget straight from China -- since, oh, you know, the country is notorious for using technology to spy on its citizens.

Nonetheless, it's an aesthetically interesting phone devoted to the
Olympics -- much more interesting than Samsung's boring-as-reading-Moby-Dick Blackjack II, which [was the "official" Olympics phone](https://www.wired.com/gadgets/2008/08/olympics-choose.html "was supposedly the "official" Olympic phone").

Product page [SourcingGate] (Thanks, Yash!)