We want our mobile phones to be able to do almost everything for us these days. We want to use them to video conference with our business partners from the other side of the world. We want them to serve as entertainment devices that replace our DVDs, CD players, game systems and cameras. We want them to locate where we are and then provide us with detailed information about what’s around us and how to get where we would prefer to be. And cell phone handset makers have satiated all of these desires. But is one company taking things a little bit too far by meeting the needs of a niche market of people who might want their mobile phones to replace their electric razors?!

That’s right; Chinese handset manufacturers have come up with a product called Shave Mobile that serves as a cell phone and an electric razor in one. It’s marketed as a product that is ideal for the frequent traveler who wants to minimize the number of devices that he carries with him but who needs to always have a clean shave.

The $100 phone is a real phone with some of the standard features that you may desire on a basic handset. It has a respectable 2.6” touch screen, 506 kb of on-board memory with the option to extend that with MicroSD cards, a small 2mp camera, FM radio and even Bluetooth. It just happens to also have a built-in electric razor that slides out of the bottom of the device. Perhaps this sounds like a good idea. But then you think about putting your mobile phone close to shaving cream, water and loose facial hair and you might want to think again.

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