Turn your iPhone into 1980s brick

Turn your iPhone into 1980s brick - An iPhone, the smart phone produced by Apple, is revered as one of the sleekest gadgets on the market. But with a new accessory it is possible to transform into an old-style 'brick' mobile phone beloved by brace-wearing executives of the 1980s.

A simple case, into which the iPhone slots, turns the slimline smart phone into a vast gadget, which will not fit into a glove compartment, let alone a trouser pocket.

The case, which costs £12.99, has been developed by Thumbs Up, a British gadget company hoping to take advantage of 1980s nostalgia, not least the sequel to the film Wall Street, which featured the character Gordon Gekko, responsible for the famous line: "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works."

Wojtek Kolan, co-founder of Thumbs Up said: "There is nothing more iconic than Gordon Gekko, the moneyman hero of the eighties, and Del Boy, TV's most popular wheeler dealer, wielding their status symbol mobile brick. Technology may have advanced to create tiny phones but it was only a matter of time before big was big again."

Pocket-lint, the gadget website, has said the case has the advantage of making increasingly ubiquitous iPhone users stand out from the crowd, adding: "You can now look as hip as Ferris Bueller, without taking the day off."

The case will be available from April and fits an iPhone 3, 3GS and 4. ( telegraph.co.uk )