Mobile Fun to offer burial service for old handsets with trapped ‘zen’

A UK based ringtone and mobile accessories company called Mobile Fun (apparently the nation’s leading site of its kind) has announced a new burial service for mobile phones that have been put out of commission.

The service invites customers to post their old handsets to Mobile Fun Limited afterwhich for a small fee (though £20 isn’t that small in our book) the old phones will be taken and buried in Russia, slap bang in the middle of Kursk Magnetic Anomaly. The idea is that the magnetic components of the old phones won’t cause any electromagnetic pollution, as it will be lost in amongst the high levels that are already present naturally.

The really strange bit comes from Mobile Fun’s newly appointed Head of Mobile, Ruslan G Fedorovsky, who commented:

There also is an interesting, although controversial idea increasing in popularity amongst Russian mobile phone users that over time, some personal electromagnetic ‘zen’ becomes trapped inside old mobile phones.

Mobile Fun is even offering to have your phone send your new handset a final goodbye text (for an additional £5) before it is committed to the ground. It all sounds a bit hocus pocus to us, but if people want to spend £25 on giving their deceased handset a proper send off, then far be it from us to judge *coughNUTTERScough*.
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