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The Design of the Razr

An interesting article on the design of the RAZR. My take: a beautifully engineered product, with a tragically bad interface. I own one, and while the hardware is great, I can’t say I like using it very much.

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2006-7-13-8:40 PM #

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Yet another article on simple phones. Among other things, it demonstrates that the carriers are still missing the point, by conflating simplicity and personalization – one click ringtone customization has done nothing to simplify my phone.

Simple cellphone… but not in the US

The Motorola C116 is a super simple and user-friendly phone, but unfortunately it isn’t available in the US because being designed for third world countries, it is deemed too cheap.

NPR has a great article about polite cellphones. I wish my cellphone were smarter about this stuff!