Verizon To Offer Wireless Batphone

Verizon Wireless announced Friday an exclusive tie-in with this summer's "The Dark Knight" and will be releasing a Batman-inspired mobile phone.

The flip-phone handset is called the Nokia 6205 The Dark Knight Edition, and has a black cover with a Dark Knight emblem on the back. It also comes preloaded with Batman-themed screensavers, wallpaper, ringtones, and a complete movie trailer.

Batman fans in need of a mid-level cell phone may be interested in this handset. It features a 2-inch display on the inside and a 1.3-inch LCD external display. It has full support for text, picture, and video messaging, and a 1.3-megapixel camera with flash and digital zoom.

The 6205 has 58 MB of internal memory that's expandable up to an additional 4 GB with a microSD memory card. It's Bluetooth-enabled, including stereo Bluetooth, and it has multimedia capabilities for a variety of codecs. Hands-free operating is also enabled with voice dialing and voice commands.

The Dark Knight phone will utilize the carrier's EV-DO for mobile Internet access, and it sports a WAP 2.0 browser. The handset is compatible with Verizon's V CAST services, including the company's turn-by-turn navigation system. Users can also access carrier's Get It Now service to download applications to the phone over the air.

The Nokia 6205 The Dark Knight edition will be available online June 15, and it will cost $69.99 with a new two-year contract. The standard version of the Nokia handset will be light blue and silver, and it will be available online in the middle of July.