Forget the Jesus Phone, here's the Rude Phone It costs $78, it is available in black, red or white and it is called the WANK E5. No, not an personalised number plate, but the name of a Nokia handset on sale at SoloMobi, a Chinese retailer. Going Solo? That sounds about right. We guess the name will change soon enough; and before sniggering too hard, we happily …
There sure are a lot of gravity inducers out there. And they appear to be mainly in Chinese phones. I have consulted our resident phone expert Bill Ray, and we are agreed that it is almost certainly a mistranslation of gravity "sensor".
Many phones these days have some sort of gravity sensor, it allows one to reject calls by flipping the phone face down and things like that. And It can also be used to auto-rotate.
Shame, really. Gravity Inducer is so much more exciting.
I thought it was a no-brand knockoff with false branding, but then it turns out to really exist. No wonder nokia is circling the drain.
On another note, why does that site require javascript to show anything at all? It doesn't appear to have smarts worth mentioning, and anyway, if it needs client-side scripting to build up a static page, then it's being overly complex for no good reason at all.
I call knockoff. The fact that it's dual-SIM (evident in one of the pics), has full signal even though there's no sim (evident in the same picture) and a filmsy TV 'tenna, plus the suspicious looking box that doesn't say Nokia anywhere on it. Also, it looks rather different from a real E5, featured here: http://www.nokia.com.my/find-product/all-phones/nokia-e5 . The specs listed on Solomobi's site does not match up with Nokia's official specs either. Given how many strange iPhone knockoffs there are in the market, this comes as no surprise as Chinese knockoff factories work to get a share of the lucrative businessphone market share.
Fire, because.
old enough to remember Wang (funny on this side of the pond) computers, especially mainframes?
Running reports on "The Wang"
Of course, since it was a mainframe-
"Is the Wang Up?"
"Is the Wang down?"
"Is the Wang working?"
I'll get me coat, the one with the "Wang Operator's Manual" in the pockets...
It was fairly nondescript except for the large word 'WANG' in the center of the top of each side, and whenever we drove past it my brother and I would snicker -- "heh, heh, it says wang!", "look, its wang is showing!", "does that mean it's full of wang?", &c. We were unparalleled wits, I tell you.
Austria permits personalised number plates, with the proviso that it must be preceded by the first letter of the city where the vehicle is registered, i.e. WElREG-1 if in Vienna, or SELREG1 if Salzburg. So when the international greetings card co. Anker International had 5 cars in Vienna registered, they read WANKER 1 through WANKER 5. Somewhere there's a photo of all 5 parked in line in the company parking lot!
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Somewhere near the Wank berg is a campsite, run by the "Hell" family. (Hell is German for light or bright.) There is a roadsign to their campsite, it uses typical German efficiency and has only 2 words :
CAMPING HELL ->
Makes me laugh more than the photo somewhere of me and a mate pretending to pleasure ourselves in front of the Wank Bahn cable car station sign.
Microsoft JET Database Engine error '80040e21'
The Microsoft Jet database engine stopped the process because you and another user are attempting to change the same data at the same time.
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Click a link and you're not viewing but CHANGING data :)
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