Marcus Hanke
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Novelty rumour: UN hybrid cell phone
Well, in fact it is more than just a rumour: At the Basel show, Ulysse Nardin will present an exclusive business cell phone. The innovation lies in the energy supply system, which, to a part, should be left to a conventional winding rotor, known from selfwinding watch movements.
Apparently, several versions, distinguished by their material mixture from titanium, carbon fibre and gold, are planned.
For the front to be revealed, we will have to wait until the end of the month.
Marcus
This message has been edited by Marcus Hanke on 2009-03-06 00:57:17
Novelty rumour: UN hybrid cell phone
Well, in fact it is more than just a rumour: At the Basel show, Ulysse Nardin will present an exclusive business cell phone. The innovation lies in the energy supply system, which, to a part, should be left to a conventional winding rotor, known from self...
Thank you for post, it is interesting
After Tag Heuer, now UN . The UN mobile is unique with rotor . There is other mobile with watch movement
Yes, but this is a mobile with integrated mechanical watches. The UN phone ...
... apparently has an alternative hybrid energy supply, and the rotor is not a simple integrated watch movement, but serves to power the phone - at least part of it. Just compare the wheelwork - or lack of - under the rotor of the UN phone with that of a ...
What is that beauty in ......
the second picture LVT? With the attention to details & finishing that UN is famous, their phone would put Phone manufacturers to shame i believe. Can't wait to see what the front looks like.
If 4692 of these cellphones could be sold, not only to UN-owners of course, but also to
phone-collectors or managers, and if the phone works quite well, it's a nice way to make known UN by new end-customers interested in luxury objects for its mechanical watches and to prevent the watch-industry from additional job cutbacks we saw during the...
I HATE phones, which is exactly why this could be my next UN...
Blackberry, Treo, Iphone, blah blah blah. I dislike talking on the phone, I do it at the office when necessary. I don't use a phone to go online. It is not my appointment book. I can calculate a tip at a restaurant without it. It is convenient for my fami...
I wonder if the power source is derived entirely from the winding rotor?
If that's the case, and the "power reserve" is reasonably long (say 5 days standby or 20 hour talk time, etc...) then it is very cool! After all, we do move our cellphones quite a lot, as they get bounced around in our pocket, bags, etc... Instead of just...
no chance
Hi Jon, It's a trick to get a winding rotor to sufficiently power a Seiko Kinetic even, and the power consumption of a quartz wristwatch is miniscule compared to that of a cell phone, especially a "smart" one. Less movement plus much larger power requirem...
Hi John, I understand your point...
Let's hope that UN has some new technology up its sleeves. Otherwise the rotor will just serve as the energy source of a conventional mechanical watch display embedded in a conventional Lithium-ion battery-operated cellphone... Hardly an exciting product ...
Well, the watch-thing has been done already ....
... as you can see in one of the posts above, and could not be called "hybrid", which is how UN calls its new phone. Therefore I personally assume something like a Citizen- or Seiko-style rotor, charging a capacitor, which then feeds either the main or so...
Actually.....
.....to power this phone you'll have to bounce up and down constantly, Tigger like (that's where the "best in breed" bit comes from Gaz). Or possibly wave your hand around a lot. Maybe that's where the bluetooth earpiece comes into play. They are talking ...
Yes, but the prototype pictures show two different designs ....
.... so I assume the final production version will have some modifications. Regards, Marcus
rather unusual
Putting out such bad quality pictures is a strange choice from un. There seems to be 4 designs!!!
A critical voice:
Look at this: http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/03/06/in-times-of-crisis-watchmaker-ulysse-nardin-gets-drunk-hooks-up-with-uk-cellphone-oem/
critical cause by the difference of views
There will be more criticism in websites of mobile phone , in the view of them advance and value of mobile is in-side technology , they care to the pragmatical value , same as quazt watch is better than mechanical watch in term of show a time .
the article that i read this week gives the impression
that the watch is purely powered by the kinetic movement of the rotor which allegedly works the same as a seiko kinetic or Omegamatic. i cant see its possible personally and a total waste of money. Graham
But it works! ....
.... maybe not the phone, but the publicity!! We are approaching a Basel fair where everything has been seen already before. instead of issueing strict embargoes for their new watches until the first day of the fair, this year, the brands have set their p...
How many years a mechanical watch can work servicing it every seven years? ...
And how many years a cellphone, when the technology's changing every five to ten years? That's what I call lifespan and it's an important point with influence on saving energy and investing money. Expensive watches as Freak or the Trilogy for example, are...
I thought the same when the Vertu was released ...
... and despite my doubts, it became a good success. We should never cease to believe in human irrationality ... Regards, Marcus
Vertu is part of Nokia, not part of a watch-manufacturer
Perhaps for UN it's simply a diversification in difficult times...
Marcus, do you have the pressrelease?? James seems to have it:
Sorry, Charles, I had to delete your link due to a violation of our forum rules. I apologize for the inconvenience caused. Regards, Marcus This message has been edited by Marcus Hanke on 2009-03-11 15:14:34
