Comments on: Hop-on disposable cellphone picked up by European distributor http://www.slashphone.com/hop-on-disposable-cellphone-picked-up-by-european-distributor-11178 Worldwide mobile phone news, reviews and wireless innovations Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:22:50 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: ElecEng http://www.slashphone.com/hop-on-disposable-cellphone-picked-up-by-european-distributor-11178/comment-page-1#comment-35 ElecEng Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:09:19 +0000 http://www.slashphone.com/hop-on-disposable-cellphone-picked-up-by-european-distributor-11178#comment-35 I worked on the CDMA model of this phone back in 2002. Hop-On is essentially an investor scam that just won't die. They didn't pay my company and disappeared for a while (if you go to their website and check the "News" section, they proudly proclaim that their CEO has been released from jail on probation for other scams). I assumed they were gone, I guess not. Their initial models (trumpeted as Time Magazine's product of the year for 2001) ended up being hacked-together Nokias without a screen. The CDMA version was real, but I honestly don't believe they have a business model to go with the product. I worked on the CDMA model of this phone back in 2002. Hop-On is essentially an investor scam that just won’t die. They didn’t pay my company and disappeared for a while (if you go to their website and check the “News” section, they proudly proclaim that their CEO has been released from jail on probation for other scams). I assumed they were gone, I guess not.

Their initial models (trumpeted as Time Magazine’s product of the year for 2001) ended up being hacked-together Nokias without a screen. The CDMA version was real, but I honestly don’t believe they have a business model to go with the product.

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