Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Zomm and Phone Halo are wireless key-chains phone locators.

Most cell phones users have experimented being involuntary separated from their beloved devices one time or another only to be left wondering if they will ever be reunited again.
That is a testimony of how much invested in their cell phones, people are nowadays.
To help that from ever happening, there are some solutions as simple as what amounts to a modern day leash for your cell phone.
The idea is what is behind two products reviewed by the Wall Street Journal; they come in form of key-chain gadgets that works as wireless leashes for Bluetooh-connected phones.
They are the $80 ZOMM, available at Zomm.com and the $60 Phone Halo available at Phone Halo.com. They are gadgets that you attach with to your keyring and they basically work the same way by emitting an acoustic warning whenever you find yourself further than a preselected distance from your phone.
Beside that simple proposition, both of them offer more or less conveniences in terms of what kind of phones they are compatible with, or what sort of little extras they offer.
For instance, the ZOMM works with any Bluetooh enabled phone while the Phone Halo works only with Blackberry and Android based phones for now .
The Phone Halo is available for purchase at Phone Halo.com, while the ZOMM won't be available for sale to the general public till next month. But according to the Wall Street Journal, people were able to pre-order it and those orders should have been shipped early this month.


For more, see WSJ.com

1 comment:

Unknown said...

The main difference between Phone Halo and Zomm is that Phone Halo is software integrated. This means that Phone Halo is bidirectional, GPS enabled, and has enabled internet technologies.

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