Fugly Star Shaped Cell Phone

Star Cell Phone

What will surely be the perfect compliment to the motor home in your life is the STAR-Lady’s Phone.  God awful ugly, heck even fugly doesn’t do this piece of kit justice.  But looks aside, it has a half way decent feature set that includes a 1.8-inch QVGA touchscreen, 2GB of storage, media player, FM radio, a VGA camera and Bluetooth.

Chinagrabber sells them in a variety of seashore like colors for $137.

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