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ZTE Hawkeye crowdsourced phone hits Kickstarter for $199

01/04/2017 at 7:30 PM by Brad Linder Leave a Comment

Last year ZTE asked the public to come up with ideas for a new smartphone. After months of soliciting ideas and whittling down the concepts, ZTE announced the winner of Project CSX: a phone with eye tracking features and an adhesive back that allows you to interact with the phone without touching it.

Now ZTE is giving the concept phone a name: Hawkeye. ANd the company is launching a Kickstarter campaign today to take pre-orders. The plan is to begin shipping the phone to backers in the third quarter of 2017.

Kickstarter backers can reserve a phone for a pledge of $199. The retail price of the phone will be higher when it ships later this year.

So here’s what’s special about Hawkeye. It uses eye-tracking technology to let you scroll automatically up or down, left or right. You can also use voice commands to switch pages.

Since there’s a case with a self-adhesive back, you can also affix the phone to a surface to keep it steady while you’re not holding it, allowing the eye-tracking features to accurately detect eye movements.

This lets you do things like read your news feeds without using your hands, allowing you to eat breakfast, brush your teeth, or perform other two-handed actions while using your phone. It could also be extraordinarily helpful for users with physical disabilities that may make it difficult to interact with touchscreen phones.

While the self-adhesive feature was part of the original concept of the phone, ZTE notes that you might not want a phone that’s always sticky, so the adhesive is being put into an optional case.

ZTE’s Hawkeye phone will probably be one of the more unusual Android handesets to hit the market in 2017. I guess the Kickstarter campaign launching today will help determine how much demand there actually is for this sort of device.


 

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Would like to preorder… But no comments in what networks it supports… Odd

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Well there’s this text: * The phone will support common 2G and 3G bands around the world, and is expected to have LTE (4G) bands most common in North America.
I’m going to reserve judgement for a reviewed device though.

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pretty decent phone, really. the adhesive case thing is weird though. it would be nice on a few occasions, but I certainly wouldn’t want it “adhering” to my pockets and other crap it contacts. and I wouldn’t want to carry the case around separately for those odd times when it would be useful.
guess i’ll have to wait for reviews.

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and then there is the estimated delivery of Sept. 2017…that’s too far away.
that’s next generation of tech away.

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That’s a pretty fast turnaround time for Kickstarter tho.

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