Verizon announces the Coupe
With the growing trend of packing more and more functionality into cell phones, it’s almost comforting to see a carrier drop an ultra simple phone dedicated to nothing more than, you know, making phone calls. Sounds crazy, right? Verizon announced the Coupe today, a phone that features little more than a tip calculator, world clock, and CDMA radio. That last feature, of course, would seem to be the phone’s biggest draw, though to be fair the thing is pretty dang thin as well, which is never a bad thing. Money in the bank? The Coupe will retail for $19.99 with a two year contract. Sounds good, though the prospect of being stuck with this bad boy for more than 2 days is a little frightening to us. That said, we’re not exactly the target market. It looks like a grown up FireFly, if you will, for the older elderly market. Pick one up beginning today if you’re so inclined.
Am I the only one was who disillusioned by the name?
yeah, I was soooooooooo thinking something much jucier had happened. Like, VzW taking over another carrier.
Verizons answer to the iPhone…hurray!
That’s freaking ugly, why bother posting about it?
Coupe, not Coup
It’s verizon, they could have called it the CRAP, and mindless idiots everywhere would buy it.
They could’ve called it the SHIT and mindless idiots would’ve still bought it. But it’s ugly as all hell and its basically a phone. Period. You would have to carry around a BB or something to have any fun.