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Nokia Tube appears in 'The Dark Knight'?

by Nicole Lee
Nokia Tube makes an appearance in the Dark Knight

Nokia Tube makes an appearance in the Dark Knight.

(Credit: Wired's Gadget Lab)

Warning: this Crave post may contain minor spoilers of the Dark Knight movie.

It is both a curse and a blessing that as an editor who reviews cell phones here at CNET, I have a tendency to notice mobile gadgets in almost every TV show and every movie I come across. And so it was with the recent Batman flick, the Dark Knight, that I noticed a very intriguing touch-screen handset that I've never seen before. Lucius Fox (played by Morgan Freeman) showed this slick-looking Nokia cell phone that was able to send sonar waves in 3D, letting him pull up a 3D sonar map of its location. Other blogs have noticed this phone as well, and have identified it as the yet-to-be-released Nokia Tube, which we have blogged about on Crave before. Of course, Nokia has mentioned that the phone seen in the film is not available commercially, but we can't help but speculate it's a taste of what's to come.

Some recent rumored spec lists have surfaced, hinting that the Nokia Tube will have a 3.2-megapixel camera, a wide-screen display, GPS, a 3.5 mm headset jack, Bluetooth, HSDPA, haptic feedback, and more. From what I could tell from its brief moments in the movie, the Nokia Tube looks like quite the slender device, and perhaps even smaller than the current iPhone. Of course, I can't tell a whole lot more from that, but perhaps this recent bout of fame means Nokia will spill the beans on the Tube sooner rather than later.

Nicole Lee is an associate editor for CNET, covering cell phones, Bluetooth headsets, and all things mobile. She's also pretty geeky--she likes World of Warcraft, comic books, and shiny gadgets. E-mail Nicole.
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by Frost7331 August 2, 2008 5:33 PM PDT
Seriously.WHY do you need something SMALLER? Well,gee,it just disappeared.These things need to be larger,and actually be able to fit on your head,not to where you either get 5% of what you are saying/hearing,or 110% of it.
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by sonymaster101 August 2, 2008 10:40 PM PDT
instead of making crap smaller they should fix the os and improve on the hardware/feature set
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by eagle-slayor August 3, 2008 4:47 PM PDT
I already spoke about it on PhoneReport.info, I believe that this phone is a half-finished 5800, and I doubt it was actually a real phone. Time will tell
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by texo August 4, 2008 7:18 AM PDT
as the iphone 3g unlocked will cost about 800$ it not for masses for sure
nokia had made the phone just 3mpx so that it be cheaper and can compete with iphone
lets c how this plays out to be :) ! n i did like the movie Dark knight !
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by shiladitya.lahiri August 5, 2008 11:23 PM PDT
Hi Nicole. I really find your articles very intriguing. I would love to talk to you via email if possible. Please do reply.
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