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Monday, July 24, 2006
The coolest and strangest phones
TechBlog has "awarded" the 5 coolest and the 10 strangest phones.
Top 5 coolest
The honorable mentions stood out the most, at least for me to comment on.
Dual-Screen Cell Phone: The second screen is sensitive to the touch, and is thus a lot more durable
So why not have a touch screen on all phones? Relative to the price of the display a touch screen doesn't cost much, and you could add virtual context-sensitive buttons easily. Not losing the stylus is an issue though. The NEC 908 mentioned earlier on the same page has only one display/touch-screen and no buttons, making the phone also considerably smaller.
Motorola PVOT (as in pivot) Phone: the Motorola PVOT concept is a hand crank, rechargeable AA battery-powered phone. You get one minute of use for every 25 cranks.
Considering bikes are very common in countries with few cars (and elsewhere too), why not make an adapter that enables use of the bike generator? That would surely give you more juice than the hand crank, and the phone could be made smaller too (read: normal size).
TechEBlog » Top 5 Coolest Cell Phones
Top 10 strangest
Luckily it's mostly design studies.
Again I got stuck on the honorable mentions:
I don't think Samsung SPH-P300 fits here, as it's a very practical design. It looks like a calculator with easy to use buttons and a wide (instead of high) display, and it's very small (credit card sized). Why is that bad? Also Emporia gets my vote for a good design. Think about it: Would you accept if your PC keyboard had buttons that hardly could be pressed and where you could hardly see what each button is for? I guess many do though on phones.
TechEBlog » Top 10 Strangest Cell Phones
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Top 5 coolest
The honorable mentions stood out the most, at least for me to comment on.
Dual-Screen Cell Phone: The second screen is sensitive to the touch, and is thus a lot more durable
So why not have a touch screen on all phones? Relative to the price of the display a touch screen doesn't cost much, and you could add virtual context-sensitive buttons easily. Not losing the stylus is an issue though. The NEC 908 mentioned earlier on the same page has only one display/touch-screen and no buttons, making the phone also considerably smaller.
Motorola PVOT (as in pivot) Phone: the Motorola PVOT concept is a hand crank, rechargeable AA battery-powered phone. You get one minute of use for every 25 cranks.
Considering bikes are very common in countries with few cars (and elsewhere too), why not make an adapter that enables use of the bike generator? That would surely give you more juice than the hand crank, and the phone could be made smaller too (read: normal size).
TechEBlog » Top 5 Coolest Cell Phones
Top 10 strangest
Luckily it's mostly design studies.
Again I got stuck on the honorable mentions:
I don't think Samsung SPH-P300 fits here, as it's a very practical design. It looks like a calculator with easy to use buttons and a wide (instead of high) display, and it's very small (credit card sized). Why is that bad? Also Emporia gets my vote for a good design. Think about it: Would you accept if your PC keyboard had buttons that hardly could be pressed and where you could hardly see what each button is for? I guess many do though on phones.
TechEBlog » Top 10 Strangest Cell Phones
(via Textually)
