Samsung Bluetooth ‘Receiver' Proves Cellphones Are Too Big

According to Samsung, phones are now officially too big to use to make calls. Its latest accessory is a tiny phone receiver that you lift up to your ear to make a call. It's a little like a Bluetooth headset, only it's not a headset (despite the name — the Slim Stick Type Bluetooth Headset).

The HM5000 (its robot name) pairs with up to two phones simultaneously and has a microphone and a speaker in its slim, sleek bar-shaped body. There's also a clip so you can tuck it into a front pocket just like a pen. A vibrator will inform you of incoming calls.

It seems ridiculous, although at least you can't dorkify yourself by stowing it in your ear like any other Bluetooth headset. But Samsung is clearly thinking of tablets, here. The existing Galaxy Tab has been hacked to make phone calls, but imagine a tablet with voice calling enabled. You'd never hold that up to your ear, but this little bar would be ideal.

The headset/receiver was shown off by Samsung at the CTIA show in Orlando, Florida, so it may or may not make it into your local cellphone store. But even if it doesn't, expect somebody to start making these. Imagine an iPad with a retro-phone handset and an on-screen, old-fashioned phone dial.

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