Here Is a Mobile Phone I can Go For
It is interesting to see a growing resitance to the feature-creep that is central to mobile phone marketing. I’m sure there must be some folks who use all the features on their new mobile phones (as part of their careers in espionage or satellite navigation perhaps), but they are lost on me. At the risk […]
It is interesting to see a growing resitance to the feature-creep that is central to mobile phone marketing. I’m sure there must be some folks who use all the features on their new mobile phones (as part of their careers in espionage or satellite navigation perhaps), but they are lost on me. At the risk of of sounding extremely non-geeky, I only use my mobile phone for voice and on rare occasions SMS communcations with a handful of people (and these days I’m literally talking about a number you can count on one, maybe two hands).
So, it was fun to see the International Herald Tribune highlight a portable rotary phone that comes complete with a serious bell ring tone. I really liked the way they listed the features you could not get with the new Motorola Razr V3,
“What the Spark Fun Portable Rotary Phone has is heft, at about two pounds, or about a kilogram, or almost 10 times the weight of the RAZR. It also has a rotary dial, a thick black plastic casing and a coiled cord, all of which the RAZR lacks – and a ring factor – as in clanging metal bells, for those tired of the “Crazy Frog Axel F” ringtone.”
