Retrofone has a range of classic (like Moto’s StarTac, pictured) and err…cheap phones for sale. The StarTac can be yours for a mere £29.99 ($56).

It caters for lovers of retro cool. But also the kind of klutzes who are always losing phones or dropping them down the loo and don’t see the point in paying more than they need to replace them.

Interestingly, they commissioned a recent survey that had some rather sobering results.

52 per cent of respondents have lost a mobile phone in the past three years and more than a quarter of us (26 per cent) have lost more than one during the that time.

If you check out the site, don’t read the true story section about a customer called Dan and the Glastonbury festival. Well, at least not while eating.

As reported on Silicon.com.

There were a couple of other stories I read there this week. Strictly speaking, they don’t fit into mobile, but I thought one was amusing and the other beautifully written, albeit about that sick, saddo site in the US, which allows you to kill animals over the web.

Here they are:

It appears that an elderly Missouri couple who went missing for over 24 hrs, sparking a state-wide police search, werenít really missing at all ñ just lost.

Speaking on the local TV channel, Violet Kaczmark, 83, said that her husband William, 85, lost his way en route to a family reception and despite her protestations he wouldnít stop to ask for directions. The pair drove on through the night, only stopping ñ three times - to buy petrol before eventually being spotted by another driver who had heard the story on his car radio.

Even then, the determined Mr Kaczmark would have driven on but for the fact that their rescuer snatched the car keys from the ignition and called the Police.

And:

For mortal woundings we need to head over to Texas where a website has been launched which will enable gun-crazed web surfers to hunt animals from the comfort of their own armchair. Making use of a webcam linked to a manoeuvrable rifle, visitors accessing the site from anywhere in the world will be able to take pot-shots at animals on a Texas ranch.

It is quite literally a killer application.

Currently the Live Shot website only offers target practice using the web-linked .22 calibre rifle but soon the ranch owner will be putting deer, antelope and wild pigs in front of the camera. (The Round-Up, knowing how unreliable and prone to delays webcams can be, wonders which animals will be favourite among virtual hunters - the incredibly fleet-footed deer and antelope or the big fat, slow-moving wild pigs/pork-flavoured cannon fodder.)

Lawmakers in the Lone Star State are currently scratching their heads and rubbing their red necks in confusion, not sure what to make of the site.

The site’s creator, John Underwood, said he got the idea when visiting a website where users could take advantage of remote cameras in the wild to take pictures of animals in their natural habitat and download the images.

“We were looking at a beautiful white-tail buck…” said Underwood, getting sentimental about the beauty of fauna, resplendent in its natural habitat… “And my friend said, ‘If you just had a gun for that’.”

“Then a little light-bulb went off in my head,” added Underwood.

But the Round-Up is being unfair, because it turns out Underwood is actually a great campaigner for equal opportunities, as the site “could be popular with disabled hunters” according to one US report, and those “who cannot afford a trip to Texas”.

Aw! Bless! Killing for all, it’s a lovely sentiment. On behalf of all the deer, antelope and particularly the wild pigs out there in Texas, ‘Thank you internet’.

Perhaps Underwood could create a premium-content section of the site where visitors can shoot rare and endangered species such as pandas, gorillas, tigers and red squirrels (for the real keen shot) - perhaps throw in the occasional monkey.

The site does say that if there is a particular animal which visitors have a yearning to shoot they can submit a request.

Underwood is also keen that the carcasses don’t go to waste (what a guy!). An attendant - who will clearly be putting a lot of faith in the refresh rate of the camera - will go out onto the range and retrieve shot animals for the shooters, who could have the heads preserved by a taxidermist (creating much-needed work for the practitioner of a diminishing trade, see - and the Round-Up is sure the head of a wild pig would make a wonderful trophy on any wall).

Virtual-hunters could also have the meat processed and shipped home, or donated to animal orphanages.

And just how do animals become orphans, John? It’s certainly a puzzler.