DoCoMo's new health-inspired phone aims to turn you into a physically perfect specimen, but at the expense of your somewhat fragile ego. Firstly, the DoCoMo Wellness phone offers the usual health- and sport-oriented features, such as pedometer, timer, calorie counter, etc.

However, it then takes things a whole lot further by telling you how many pies you've eaten, and not exactly breaking the news to you gently, either!

More details after the jump.

Hold the phone with both palms, and it will measure your fat content, giving both a percentage readout, and happily telling you you're a porker if your fat content is too high.

Worse is to come though. Breathe onto the phone, and it will tell you how bad your breath is!!

Now I've always wondered about people whose breath smells really bad. Sure, we all suffer moments where our breath could be a little fresher, either through coffee, beer, fags, garlic or all four. But I'm talking about those people who go through life with such bad halitosis that the smell lingers on for hours after they've left a room. Maths teachers, we used to call them at school, on account that all maths teachers seemed to share this undesirable trait.

I always wondered how they could never smell it themselves, and if they could, why they didn't do something about it. So I also wonder about the usefulness of this feature of the Wellness phone.

If you're a normal person without halitosis, then your breath will only smell when you've eaten rich food and smoked a few coffees at lunchtime, but you know this already - you don't need a phone to tell you how bad your breath is smelling!

And if you're a halitosis sufferer who's in denial, then it'll never occur to you that your breath is so bad that puppies keel over and die in your wake, so you'll never use the feature.

I mean, do you need to be told your breath smells? You have a nose, it's quite close to your mouth, how can you not tell?!

The only purpose for the Wellness phone that I can see, then, is to completely destroy someone else's ego. You'll never use it yourself, but think of the fun of talking to someone with bad breath, holding the phone up to them as they talk, and having the phone say "Level 7 - your breath has reached bio-hazard levels. HazMat teams have been informed and are on their way!"

Ah, the creative uses we users dream up for our mobile phones!!

[Source: GearFuse]