Hop1800 – The $10 Utility Cell Phone

Hop-On Inc. has come up with a super cheap cell phone which can easily be used as a standby by all those who sport those cutting-edge hi tech mobile phones. It is priced at a rock bottom level, well, frankly speaking, even lower than that as it were at $10 apiece and would be available at all retail and convenience stores. Hop1800, as this phone is called, can very well qualify as a disposable phone especially if we consider its dirt cheap price, but the company offers a $5 rebate on all returns just to highlight its concern for environment and desire to ‘go green’. So, if you are prepared to return the phone after expiry of talk time, you can actually get a cell phone for a princely sum of $5. That sounds pretty interesting, doesn’t it?

Well, let's now get a little closer to the instrument. It weighs 77 grams and is available in two varieties - Dual-band 850/1900MHz for US and 900/1800MHz for Europe and Asia. It sports polyphonic ringtones, 4 hours of talk time and a whopping 150 hours of standby time. It superbly performs what it is meant to do, making phone calls, that is.

Its firm tactile buttons give that reassurance which many a touch phone user might long for and as thoughtful add on, these buttons have Braille markings on them just to make life a little easier for the visually impaired. These prepaid phones don’t have a screen, but you really don’t need it when you're making a call, do you? With it being compatible with over 40 US service providers which obviously include Cingular, T-Mobile and AT&T and of course Hop-On’s own Graffiti Wirelesstm, all that you should and surely would like to do is grab one and start talking immediately.

Hop-On Inc has the option of branding these phones with your corporate logo to make them unique business gifts for all occasions. Just go and have a look at Hop1800, it's surely worth the look.

(May 27, 2008)