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Made for people who carry around two phones—one for work and one for your wife to nag you at work—this KTFT EV-K170 slider allows you to dial and receive calls with two numbers simultaneously. There are two modes, an "H" mode and a "B" mode (Home and Business, anyone?) that can be swapped back and forth depending on which number you don't want your mistress to see.
Other features: FM radio, 1.3-megapixel camera, voice recorder, and FM radio. It doesn't appear to be available anywhere outside of Korea—when's the last time you had a KTFT-brand phone—but it is a cool idea for cellphone cowboys.
one mobile phone with two different numbers [AVING via Mobile Mag]
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ah crap, I had this idea like 2 years ago but never got round to putting it to reality and now someone goes and steals my genious idea :/
>FM radio, 1.3-megapixel camera, voice recorder, and FM radio.
Does that mean the FM radio is in stereo sound?\
I like the idea though. But you probably have to pay for twice the service.
I can't believe it took this long for something like that to happen. SURELY there are phones that support 2 lines and numbers now, right?
So if they both ring at the same time.... which one do you answer 1st?!
Answer... the one that is not your wife!
James: yeah, ppl do it with ghost sims/dual sim adaptors
I'm not sure what makes this unique among CDMA phones... almost every phone made for and sold by VZW or Sprint in the last 5 (probably longer) years supports "Dual NAM" (Numeric Assignment Module if you're curious), the point of which is precisely this. Program 2 numbers into 1 phone and switch back and forth on the fly. Some older phones (i.e. the StarTacs) supported as many as 4.
The only way this stands apart is if the numbers on this phone switch automatically (our dual NAM phones don't) or if it was GSM (which I doubt out of a korean model).
They created the dual line mobile phone years ago, I remember in '96 I had a Startak which allowed for two lines, the problem was that you had to get yourself a two line plan, which cost too much and was quite useless.
However I do know people who use two phones, one is usually a pda phone for work and the other is a compact handset for play, I can't imagine what I would need two of the same handsets for though? If I wanted to hide something fromsomeone I'd just change the name of the woman I'm cheating on her with to "WORK HUMAN RESOURCES" or some such make beleive identity.
As long as your service provider allows multiple phone numbers on a single sim, the lowly Moto Razr series will allow up to 4 lines on one handset. Always has.
Not that any normal human needs more than one, but some of you really, really, really important people might need 2. Or 4.
EV-K170 had DMB, too
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