Mobile phones to turn into golf clubs and toy guns

Tokyo - Subway commuters could get more energetic in Japan through a new motion-sensitive mobile telephone equipped with games that will let people on the move practise their golf swings or shoot up monsters.

The local branch of British mobile giant Vodafone on Monday unveiled the V603SH, billed as the first phone in Japan to respond to movements, which will let users perform basic mobile functions through programmed shakes and jerks.

The 142-gram (five-ounce) telephone, developed with Sharp and the Aichi Steel Corporation, can be used as a golf club. Users look back at the screen to see how well they putted.

The phone can also be moved like a gun for the shoot-'em-up game "House of the Dead," raising the possibility of more adventurous times on the Tokyo subway where rows of commuters hunched over mobile phone screens are a common sight.

The V603SH also lets users watch television on a liquid crystal display screen that can rotate 180 degrees.

The telephone is due to go on sale in Japan in mid-February, with Vodafone not setting a market price.

On January 18 Pantech Co., South Korea's third largest mobile phone maker, began selling what was advertised as the world's first motion-recognition mobile phone, which can be used to simulate a fishing rod or racecar controls.

The South Korean "sports-leisure" PH-S6500 phone can also be attached to a jogger's body to chart speed, calories consumption or distance. -- AFP News

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