Enterprise to offer Star Trek ‘Communicators’

Two tech companies have announced plans to boldly go where no wireless phone company has gone before, with the release in September of a mobile telephone that resembles the communicators featured on the popular 1960s television series "Star Trek."

With a black body and face plate, the new Star Trek Communicator Phones will, from the outside, strongly resemble the devices featured on the show, although they will be slightly smaller, said Marie Wiese, vice president of marketing for Sona Mobile, a mobile software company that is partnering with Viacom Consumer Products to sell the phones.

Flip them open, however, and they will look not much different from a cell phone, with the flip top forming the screen and the black body forming the dial pad, she said.

"I think it is obviously a natural," said Gary Berman, who grew up New York and says he is an avid "Star Trek" fan. "It is interesting that tech is catching up with what we have seen in the ’60s."

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