Your smartphone is about to die and you don’t have time to stop and plug it into a wall outlet. What do you do? If you’ve got a portable power bank, you can plug in your phone and recharge it on the go. Or if you’ve got a cheap secondary phone, you could swap SIM cards and use your backup phone.

The Zuri U28 lets you do both.

It’s a feature phone with a 2.8 inch display, a numeric keypad, and a 4,000 mAh battery… that you can use to recharge other devices.

Of course, that raises the question: if you’ve got a battery that can recharge your smartphone, does it need to be able to make calls too?

But you’re probably thinking about it too hard… or at least a bit harder than the people who came up with the idea.

Basically, the big battery and power bank features are just about the only things that set the Zuri U28 apart from any other cheap phone on the market. Is it a gimmick? Pretty much. But it’s a pretty nifty gimmick.

The phone has a TFT display, 32MB of RAM and 32MB of storage, a VGA rear camera, dual SIM support, WiFi, FM radio, and GPRS support for (slow) data networks. It has a flashlight feature, a web browser, and SMS support.

There’s no word on the price or where you’ll be able to buy this phone. Uri is based in Hong Kong.

via Harry McCracken

Support Liliputing

Liliputing's primary sources of revenue are advertising and affiliate links (if you click the "Shop" button at the top of the page and buy something on Amazon, for example, we'll get a small commission).

But there are several ways you can support the site directly even if you're using an ad blocker* and hate online shopping.

Contribute to our Patreon campaign

or...

Contribute via PayPal

* If you are using an ad blocker like uBlock Origin and seeing a pop-up message at the bottom of the screen, we have a guide that may help you disable it.

Subscribe to Liliputing via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 9,547 other subscribers

6 replies on “Zuri U28 is a 4,000 mAh power bank that’s also a phone (or vice versa)”

  1. Even tho the phone is not that impressive, I kind of like the idea. Maybe if it was a phone, robust standalone GPS, and battery bank, they would be on to something.

Comments are closed.