Until somebody builds a gun, knife or pepper spray into a cell phone (which we imagine might cause some safety problems), Samsung’s W7100 is the next best thing to thwart evildoers. The new handset, unveiled today in Korea, sports a 100-decibel alarm and other safety features designed to ward off the riff raff.
Just like an old-school personal alarm, the W1700’s cry is activated by pulling a giant ring that hangs off it on a string. Quite unlike that classic alarm, the phone also uses GPS to pinpoint your location at the time and alert authorities when the siren goes off. The hope, of course, is that the alarm (supposedly audible within 230 feet) will send crimianals running, and if not, the digital transmission will get cops to your location as quickly as possible.
