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Comments on: Teen-mum flick gets filmgoers hungry for hamburger phone

Give away? 

By Andrew Posted Monday 4th February 2008 14:34 GMT

IT Angle

The "Juno Hamburger Phone" was a free gift on Facebook about a month ago, so they've been pushing it by other channels as well.

Before everyone in UK rushes out 

By Stu Reeves Posted Monday 4th February 2008 14:42 GMT

It's proberbly illeagal to connect this to a UK network (couldn't find any refs to BABT approval). Oh and it probebrly won't ring, unless you get a RJ11 - BT with capacitor.

Retro Hamburger phone idea 

By Lorum Ipsum Posted Monday 4th February 2008 14:58 GMT

Alert

A hamburger phone also appears in the 80's movie "Dragnet" with Hanks and Dan Aykroyd...so it's not *that* new...

Case of retro ideas coming back into fashion maybe...

BABT approval ... 

By David Gosnell Posted Monday 4th February 2008 15:07 GMT

... appears to be a thing of the past now.

Can't remember the last time I saw a green blob on a few bit of kit, and it's apparently all now been subsumed into CE marking.

And... 

By Adrian Jones Posted Monday 4th February 2008 15:15 GMT

Mr McDowell had one in his office in Eddie Murphy's Coming To America in 1988.

@Lorum Ipsum 

By Anonymous Coward Posted Monday 4th February 2008 15:21 GMT

Erm... do you know what "retro" means...?

@Lorum Ipsum 

By Tim Lake Posted Monday 4th February 2008 15:24 GMT

Flame

Did you read the actual article?

"why people would want to talk into something that’s been around for decades, rather than a state of the art wireless Dect handset is beyond us"

We all know it's been around for years, thats kind of the point

can't think of a title 

By bluesxman Posted Monday 4th February 2008 15:24 GMT

Paris Hilton

<pedantry>Looks like a cheeseburger to me...</pedantry>

I vaguely recall such a device was frequently visible on the counter in a café on a TV show I watched as a yoof. I'm thinking it was Home & Away, but can't be certain.

Plastic food 

By James Le Cuirot Posted Monday 4th February 2008 15:33 GMT

Coat

You might as well go to MacDonalds, their burgers are even more plastic and cheaper to boot.

Meh 

By Lloyd Posted Monday 4th February 2008 17:41 GMT

Thumb Down

It's an alright film with some pretty music by Sonic Youth, etc but only average, certainly not Oscar material. And the only people to buy this pos phone are likely to be the same people who buy rubbish like the iphone.

Burger Phone 

By Anonymous Coward Posted Monday 4th February 2008 20:28 GMT

They used to use one on the TV show "Home & Away" in the diner years ago. You can see it in this clip on the edge of the counter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibAEGTI_3pI

Forget the burger phone, I want the garfield phone 

By Noogie Brown Posted Monday 4th February 2008 22:09 GMT

as seen in Godfrey Ho's timeless classic Ninja Terminator.

Missed opportunity 

By Haku Posted Monday 4th February 2008 22:28 GMT

With mobile phones probably more popular than thethered phones (wouldn't really know, I hate both types), what about a mobile phone hamburger?

Food Phones... 

By Paul Hampson Posted Tuesday 5th February 2008 11:43 GMT

Coat

I remember in my first year of university we (as a prank... can you tell there were 4 engineers in my block?!) dismantled our friends internal phone and built the earpiece and microphone into a banana... worked well for a while before the banana turned to mush.

We then transferred the earpiece and microphone to polystyrene burger box - wasn't particularly ergonomic but it worked...