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Modu phone

Are you someone who likes your phone to be a phone, and your music player to play music? Modu phone rebelled against the converged device direction that all other phone makers were heading in, designing a phone that could be inserted into a skin to transform its capabilities. For example, the basic handset, inserted into the MP3 skin, would transform the look and feel of the user experience, plus add the ability to play music.

There was something fascinating in this dumbphone-to-smartphone concept, but there was a crucial element missing. Modu phone assumed that we wanted to pick and choose what features our phone was capable of achieving, when in fact we wanted phones that did everything.