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Zumbafone will revolutionize cell-phone industry

04 February 2009 14:42 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Aynur Veliyeva â€“ APA-Economics. A British based technology company is working on a fully voice activated handset that it says could revolutionize the industry.
A handset with an unlikely name is being touted as potentially revolutionizing the industry, due to what its makers claim is the worldâ€™s most accurate voice recognition system. The Zumbafone could be available by the end of this year, according to reports.
The innovation is a circular pad that can be placed over the ear and detaches from a small handset that contains a circular dial pad and screen. Simply removing the earpiece pad from the handset activates a connection to the internet. You then simply say the name of a contact to dial a number or send a text. When you receive a text it can them be read out to you.
No contact information is stored on the handset itself, with all data being held â€˜in the cloudâ€™, which the makers say makes the phone 100 per cent secure. As it is fully tied to voice recognition, the claim is that if lost, the phone cannot be used by anyone else.
The phone is aimed as a low cost, or secondary phone, so eschews features such as high resolution screen and camera.