Hop-on, a consort typically famous for their baritone modify phone offerings, has declared that they module background its newborn Android enabled figure at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronic Show in Jan 2009. The phone module outlay $200 or less.

Will it be compareable to the T-Mobile G1 in calibre and modify factor? Hard to say… but what is more engrossing to place on is Hop-on’s plans to modify into the ambulatory recreation market, most notably into recreation and wagering for cold, hornlike change using your ambulatory device.

You crapper encounter those goals blow apply in the region of the Hop-on website: “Hop-on is train up to modify playing into ambulatory gaming, SMS wagering and recreation programs for individualized consumer radiophone phones, equipment TV and beyond!”

So where meliorate than Las Vegas to start a phone with a real, flooded ambulatory cards embedded and optimized direct on the device? Its an engrossing existence and one that we would VERY openly recognize discover of plain amusement… without attractive whatever doable ethnic ills into account. Of instruction you won’t be probable to ingest this figure in the United States… but what if the phone could notice that you’re in Las Vegas via GPS and exclusive earmark you to endeavor in locations where recreation is legal?

But the strategy thickens. The example article quotes a “Peter Michaels” as saying: “”Hop-on is sworn in transfer the latesttechnology to the market, the Android unstoppered papers makes Hop-on competitivein the broad modify ambulatory phone market. This module create mart continuance for ourshareholders.”

Nowhere does the article land who the heck Mr. saint Michaels actually is. So, upon googling for this query:

“Peter Michaels” hop-on

I was somewhat psychoneurotic when I feature the statement of the rattling prototypal SERP result:

So to repeat the crowning 3 articles it looks same (we didn’t take further):

1. 2003 article explaining the collar of saint Michaels. His company, World Wide Web Casinos, was accused of upbringing $12 to $18 meg dollars and blowing it all, part on individualized assign bill expenses and undignified purchases same purchase a yacht. Meanwhile, whatever investors forfeited their money… and homes.
2. Michaels touted his enthusiastic conception of a “$30 Cell Phone” that apparently, Time Magazine titled one of the large inventions of 2001. Some inquiring programme institute that underneath the flushed impressible casing, one distribution was understandably tagged exclusive as a “Nokia 8260.” They had only re-used an existing phone’s guts and titled it their own.
3. A 2005 article says Michaels was sentenced to 8 months in jail on the charges for defrauding investors.

The terminal article then says, “Once he has complete his 8 period slammer term, Michaels module rest on probation for 3 years.”

Lets see… Nov 2005…. 8 months in jail… harmful beatific behavior…. nonnegative 3 eld probation…. HMMMM… it seems that saint Michaels haw intend soured probation meet in instance for his lowercase activate to Las Vegas.  Does this not good rattling such same the programme of Gizmondo we posted a whatever weeks back?

So after doing a lowercase homework, I’m reluctant to place ANY establishment in Hop-on’s efforts. And to be honest, modify if the creation and services are surpassing I would be reluctant to acquire them. Actually, I wouldn’t acquire them. Simply because I don’t poverty to hold someone with this story when there are plentitude of GOOD grouping discover there doing the RIGHT abstract who I could pay my money with.

We could be attractive this taste of programme a taste far, but its recreation to conceive most the possibilities, isn’t it? In a way, that’s what Android is every about… inaugural up newborn possibilities. Its doable that Hop-on meet has a lawful phone on the artefact that uses Android and module at whatever saucer also promulgation ambulatory apps, whether on the Android Market or elsewhere, that apply ambulatory gambling. But combine the digit sounds same an elating synergy, don’t you think? As daylong as it doesn’t become with vindictive code that takes your assign bill content and uses it to acquire added yacht.

We’re rating CES Las Vegas on our Calendar and wish to wager something modify from Hop-on. If you listen the event, attain trusty you ready nearby tabs on your individualized concept patch nearby the Hop-on booth. And patch we’re inactivity for that period to come, what do you conceive the consort has brewing? And what do you conceive of the company’s (alledged) past?

[Via IBTimes, BGR]