It was recently reported that the aerospace and defense firm Boeing (most known for airplanes) is looking to break into the mobile phone market – for superspies.
Coming to a Defense Department government official near you later this year and leveraging the Android OS widely popular for consumer phones, the Boeing phone (yes, that’s the name they are going with) is planning to enter the market at a lower price point than competitor devices which range between $15,000-$20,000 each. I love seeing my tax dollars at work, and I’m curious to know how much lower they are looking to go considering you can buy a VW Jetta for almost the same price.
Full specs and partner programs for this device have yet to be announced and given the target audience being the defense department, secret agents and Oprah, I don’t think iPhone fans will have much to worry about in the way of competition. But we can speculate that it’ll have the following bells and whistles:
- SMS/MMS Messaging
- Camera for photos and video to record bad guys doing bad guy things because they’re bad guys.
- Google Maps – Safe house locations will be marked with a “star”
- Address book – Agent codenames will have to be manually inputted
- And of course, Draw Something. After all, what better way to test the facial recognition of the Villains 2.0 database?
I hope our friends in R&D are reading this so that we can make sure we get a new super-encoded wireless backup drive included. You’ll definitely need to be able to backup recorded conversations with informants while out in the field while doing your Jack Bauer thing.
Given the full list of products that Boeing develops, it’s a bit of a wonder they haven’t entered the mobile phone market sooner. But I won’t hide it; I’ll definitely want one. How about you?
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