By Jamie Hinks
ITProPortal
Mobile phones designed to look like car key fobs are being used by prisoners to keep in contact with the outside world as the number confiscated by authorities continues to rise.
The tiny mobile phone measures in at around 8cm x 3cm x 2cm, is manufactured in China and advertised online as a “fun item”. It costs just £40 and does everything that a basic mobile phone can do including sending and receiving SMS messages and phone calls.
Most of the devices are sold on eBay’s range of worldwide sites and the page for one explains the specification in further detail. It’s a quad-band GSM phone, meaning it works all over the world, has GPRS internet with Java enabled, bluetooth, FM radio, support for a microSD card, MP3 and video players, two to three hours talk time and a standby time of 48-72 hours.
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