Mobile General is a Chinese mobile phone manufacturer. I have never heard of them in the past, but now I came across them for the second time in the space of a few weeks. I first saw their dual-SIM card phone and thought that this was a neat idea that actually fits my requirements right now since I have two mobile phone numbers. Simple idea, but I have not heard anyone else do it so far, or at least not market it heavily. Then today I saw this mobile phone here:

Comments in Heise Online were mostly negative, though, since noone could really see much use for it. I had given it some thought too, and apart from being able to completely lock yourself into a video world maybe at a super busy airport I had not much use for it either. I can, though, imagine that this all depends on where you are. Maybe in super-busy China or India there is more of a need for it, but then probably no time at all for any break? To summarize the innovative approach: it is more of a combination of already existing things, so evolutionary and not revolutionary, but at least they try for some new things. Time will tell if anyone buys this; I will check out the double-SIM card phone a bit more... other technical features are still weak though, e.g. only a two-band phone so would not work in the US, which makes it a clear no for me.