Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, has announced that the Venezuelan government has teamed up with a firm to create a $14 phone complete with MP3 playback, FM Radio, and a camera. Called El Vergatario, the handset should launch in May.
We dug around a bit, but we’re having a hard time figuring out exactly what El Vergatario means in this context. It seems that Vergatario is everything from slang for “Great” to a few things that are, as Wired points out, a bit more offensive.
We’re still a bit torn on this one. The good side: Cheap cell phones for people who otherwise couldn’t get them. The bad side: Chances are, these things won’t be very ecologically friendly. Cheap phones means lots of phones sold, which means lots of phones in land fills within 4-5 years.
Are you torn on the prospect of cheap phones in all contexts, or just for Venezuelans?
All contexts. See:
http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/08/04/bic-and-orange-team-up-to-make-bic-phone-fill-landfills/
Fair enough. Just checking.
Here is some more http://www.experientia.com/blog/chavez-launches-the-people-phone/
Vergatario… comes from verga? which in spanish means “dick”. Can be “vergudo”, which would mean awsome in some latin american contexts, but I’m not quite sure that phone would go with that description. lol
Vergatario means: awesome! But as stated before, “verga” means cock, so actually Vergatario means having a huge cock, which will imply that having a big cock is a good thing. I’m sure you get the point.
im a venezuelan and i tell you its is a ZTE made in venzuela phone thats is the most cheap phone ever
I’m from Caracas Venezuela. and I’m telling you, anyone that buy’s a phone from a totalitarian communist regime that loves the Castro Cuban government its out of their minds, not to be paranoic but big brother any one. Maybe its to cheap to listen in. = )