Yes it is. You have to believe what you read. It's real and it will be launched in France in August 2008. The astonishing fact is that it is going to be launched by a ball point pen company Bic, which means that they have no Technological background. And hence may be that is why Bic has teamed up with Orange France to release the first ever Bic Phone, a cell which is sold with a pre-charged battery and made to be thrown away after a chunk of usage. It comes with a SIM card already set-up and only needs activation. The Bic phones will also offer 60 minute free talktime, but if you want more minutes you can pay for it.
The phone is mostly featureless and is a low end phone with calling and text messaging being the only options.
Citrus Orange and Lime Green will be the optional colours you can get of your choice. The Citrus Orange phone will look like the image of the phone above this article. The phone itself will cost €49 /£39/$80/INR3200. One will be certainly curious on how the idea of disposable phone goes even a person in India would be curious about it.
The fact that a non mobile company stepping on to make its mark reminds us of Finland's Nokia which was a Furniture company.
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