Star Trek Mobile Communicator

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SONAMOBILE.COM

 

News Release

August 15, 2005

 

 

 

SONA MOBILE TO CREATE STAR TREK® THEMED MOBILE COMMUNICATOR DEVICE

Global Partnership lets Star Trek® Communicator users interact with Star Trek® content and each other

 

NEW YORK - August 15, 2005 - Sona Mobile (OTC BULLETIN BOARD: PERF.OB), and Nickelodeon & Viacom Consumer Products today announced a partnership to develop a rich content enabled mobile device offering an unprecedented level of functionality. Themed after Star Trek® communicator devices popularized by characters on the science fiction television and movie series, the special edition Star Trek® Communicator Phone offers fans of cool mobile technology the ability to play a multi-player, online Star Trek® game, stream real-time video, and surf the Internet as well as access ring tones, wallpapers, news, information, and Star Trek® fan activities.

 

The Star Trek® Communicator Phone is powered by Sona Mobile's Sona Wireless Platform™ (SWP), which offers multi-threading capability for running several applications concurrently. The SWP makes it possible for end-users to stream video clips while simultaneously text messaging a friend or accessing information on the Internet, without negatively impacting device performance.

 

Sandi Isaacs, VP, Interactive at Nickelodeon & Viacom Consumer Products, which represents Paramount Pictures properties, remarked, "There is a tremendous opportunity to tap into Star Trek® fans around the world and offer them a device to interact, connect and download Star Trek® entertainment. This not only promotes the Star Trek® spirit but creates a new paradigm for the wireless community."

 

The availability of the Star Trek® Communicator Phone signals Sona Mobile's entrance to the entertainment market after almost six years of leading the delivery of wireless content to financial service organizations. The SWP has powered the corporate environment for years and now it crosses the entertainment threshold to offer a wide range of telecommunications features to a new audience.

 

"Sona Mobile has a history of providing the technology necessary to power mobile access to enterprise applications, so this partnership is a natural extension of our product," said Shawn Kreloff, Managing Director of the Entertainment Division. "The Star Trek® Communicator Flip Phone is far and away the most technologically advanced, themed mobile device on the market. As the mobile entertainment industry evolves towards delivering multiple media streams at the same time, our Sona Wireless Platform creates a new era of theme phones."

 

The Star Trek® Communicator Phone will come equipped with a custom Star Trek® faceplate and other themed features unique to the Star Trek® franchise. The phone will be available beginning September 30, 2005.

[Quv 0]

I already tried to google it, and checked their site... no images of this device yet..... i want one i want one i want one i want one i want one

[Harry Potter 0]

OMG!!! I WANT one...I NEED one.....lol

[WesleyMustDie 0]

I want one! Wow, I'm such a GEEK!

[eagle 0]

I already tried to google it, and checked their site... no images of this device yet..... i want one i want one i want one i want one i want one

scotty beam me my new communicator to my coordinates.....NOW..... :blink: :D

[Yaxela 0]

SONAMOBILE.COM

[Expected joke] Don't they make Ketracel White? [/Expected joke]

Edited August 20, 2005 by Yaxela

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[Expected joke] Don't they make Ketracel White? [/Ketracel White]

Nope. I believe that stuff comes from Columbia

[Nemesis 0]

Nope. I believe that stuff comes from Columbia

mmmmmm...Ketracel White

[Ramdar Goftar 0]

want it....need it......now

[Avery Tynte 0]

I believe Mr. Quv hit the nail on the head....I want one I want one I want one I want one I want one.....NOW! :D ::Must now admit he is part Trekkie::

Edited August 20, 2005 by Avery Tynte

[WesleyMustDie 0]

::is a total geek and not afraid to admit it:: I want one I want one I want one...

[Avery Tynte 0]

::Is still in denile....:: However...I want one I want one I want one

[eagle 0]

::is a total geek and not afraid to admit it:: I want one I want one I want one...

:: me too, me too, me too, me too,....and did i mention yeeesssss, me too:: :D :)

[Murdok Helios 0]

im confuzled

 

 

is it a comm badg thingy?

 

or some sort of cellphone, tmoblie sidekick thing that has a startrek layout?

[Quv 0]

like i said before there are no pics of it yet, however everything else they make look similar to a sidekick or blackberry type device

[Travis Kroells 0]

(Must be the only one on STSF who isn't even interested by this)

[Nemesis 0]

(Must be the only one on STSF who isn't even interested by this)

You're not alone...

[Yaxela 0]

You're not alone...

:D Come on, surely the first time you used a fliptop phone you shook it open a la Kirk?

[WesleyMustDie 0]

I want one! Wait...I said that earlier...

[Travis Kroells 0]

I dont have a flip top phone, I am quite happy with the phone I have currently. I have no need to get a trek novelty phone, pay unknown bundles of money for it when I have a perfectly fine phone here.

 

If I was going to show my trek fandom (which I wont, Im bearly a trek fan, execpt for that fan fiction NDak showed me) i'd buy those stupid trek check blanks.

[eagle 0]

I want one! Wait...I said that earlier...

me too...... :D

[Laehval tTemarr 0]

Another article, this one giving a bit more in the way of physical description:

 

 

Trekkies will beam at new cell phone

Retro: The Star Trek Communicator Phone will, from the outside, resemble the '60s gadget

By Robert Tuttle / Newsday / Salt Lake Tribune

 

Two tech companies have announced plans to boldly go where no wireless phone company has gone before, with the release in September of a mobile telephone that resembles the communicators featured on the popular 1960s television series ''Star Trek.''

 

With a black body and face plate, the new Star Trek Communicator Phones will, from the outside, strongly resemble the devices featured on the show, although they will be slightly smaller, said Marie Wiese, vice president of marketing for Sona Mobile, a mobile software company that is partnering with Viacom Consumer Products to sell the phones.

 

Flip them open, however, and they will look not much different from a cell phone, with the flip top forming the screen and the black body forming the dial pad, she said.

 

''It is obviously a natural,'' said Gary Berman, who grew up in New York and says he is an avid ''Star Trek'' fan. ''It is interesting that tech is catching up with what we have seen in the '60s.''

 

As co-chief executive of Creation Entertainment, Berman is the organizer of the Official Fourth Annual Star Trek Las Vegas Convention. The convention, which started Thursday, is expected to attract upward of 12,000 ''Star Trek,'' fans, in addition to Sona and Viacom, which will be exhibiting, he said.

 

The new cell phones will be manufactured by an as-yet undisclosed company and, in the United States, will be serviced by an also undisclosed cellular network administrator, Wiese said. She added that ''Star Trek'' fans will have to pay $10 per month on top of their usual cell phone bills to own the special Star Trek phones and the special features and services that will come with them.

 

These, Wiese said, will include instant Star Trek community message boards and a computer game called Fleetwars that phone users will be able to play with other phone users around the country. A Trekkie will even be able to download any ''Star Trek'' episode in streaming video on demand.

 

Unlike the devices on the ''Star Trek'' series, however, Wiese said that users will have to speak into them like a normal phone, not flip them open and talk into them from a distance, as the characters did in the television program.

 

Initially, the two companies will be marketing the phones in North America and Britain, attempting to tap into a market of loyal ''Star Trek'' fans that is believed to number in the millions. A Star Trek Communicator replica recently sold on eBay for a whopping 380 pounds sterling, or $682.

 

Berman of Creation Entertainment said Trekkies offer an attractive market for technology product developers. They are manic devotees of the program and tend to be tech savvy. What is more, she said, ''They are wealthy. They are all the computer guys.''

[DaryusZaphodDracal 0]

I have to agree with everyone here, I WANT ONE! :)

 

I did a google search, but couldn't find any pics either. But, I did find this under a search of LCARS. Seem's the nifty Japanese have invented a working LCARS system for a mobile phone. I can't read the website (it's in Japanese), but the picture is pretty cool. :D

 

Edited August 22, 2005 by DaryusZaphodDracal

[DaryusZaphodDracal 0]

Ok, here is a pic I found on gismodo.com. I don't know if this is a real pic of the sona communicator.

 

[Captain Huff 0]

Yes, I'll be wanting one too, lol. I currently have a flip phone JUST because it looks Trekish.

 

Though I was watching daytime TV today and in an interview with a plastic surgeon, they asked him if he ever had any weird requests that he had to turn down. He said there was one where a guy asked for pointed ears, and showed up in a Spock t-shirt.