Fashion drives cellphone design

I need to add this to my bedtime prayer...

Dear Lord...
* Please don't let cellular companies put fashion before data speeds.
[added to]
* Grant me the ability to punch someone in the face over standard TCP/IP.


http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/1....ap/index.html
[snip]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- For Denise Albert, choosing a cell phone has nothing
to do with ring tones, instant messages or megapixels.

"To me, it's what it looks like," said Albert, a 53-year-old campaign
fundraiser from suburban Powell. "I want a good design. Period."

Albert represents a fashion trend marketers are tapping into as they offer
mobile phones with sleeker designs and in more colors, such as blue and
pink, and accessories ranging from charms and stickers to crystals and tiny
designer purses.

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On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 02:18:13 GMT, decaturtxcowboy
<[email protected]> wrote:

>I need to add this to my bedtime prayer...
>
>Dear Lord...
>* Please don't let cellular companies put fashion before data speeds.
>[added to]
>* Grant me the ability to punch someone in the face over standard TCP/IP.

I didn't read the entire article, but the cellular companies
needn't put fashion _before_ data speeds or any other phone function.
And the word fashion is misleading.

Good design is worth striving for. It's possible for a phone
to be functional, ergonomic, and pleasing in appearance. The
cost-intensive part is functionality, because it involves R&D, lab
testing, etc. The other two qualities require only the services of a
good designer, and as the article points out, the results of the
investment may pay for it many times over. Only the will to
incorporate all these qualities is required by the manufacturers, and
that would be instilled by increased profit. Just look at the
astounding array of phones available in Japan. They work as well as
any on earth, and many are near works of art (and in fact several
phones from Japan's au/KDDI have won int'l. design awards).

People may _buy_ phones for whatever reason they wish.
Manufacturers should try to make them appeal on every level. There's
absolutely nothing wrong with that. You needn't punch anyone out over
it.

DGI

David G. Imber wrote:
> I didn't read the entire article, but the cellular companies
> needn't put fashion _before_ data speeds or any other phone function.
> And the word fashion is misleading.

A cellphone is meant to be a communications device, not a fashion statement.

decaturtxcowboy wrote:
> A cellphone is meant to be a communications device, not a fashion
> statement.

So, how do you feel about wristwatches?

--
St. John
I have learned silence from the talkative,
toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.
-Kahlil Gibran

At 29 Oct 2006 13:47:18 +0000 decaturtxcowboy wrote:

> A cellphone is meant to be a communications device, not a fashion
statement.

Watches used to be meant to be timekeeping devices. Clothes were once
meant to be protection from the elements.

Times change.

--
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"St. John Smythe" wrote:
>
> decaturtxcowboy wrote:
> > A cellphone is meant to be a communications device, not a fashion
> > statement.
>
> So, how do you feel about wristwatches?

Personally, I use mine to tell time. It's a $100 watch that I've been
wearing for ~5 years.

Ask the same question to a Rolex wearer, and I'd imagine you'd get a
*very* different answer!

Notan

"St. John Smythe" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> decaturtxcowboy wrote:
>> A cellphone is meant to be a communications device, not a fashion
>> statement.
>
> So, how do you feel about wristwatches?

I quit wearing a wristwatch when I got a cellphone. Why does one
need more than one device with the correct time?

--
John Richards

In article <[email protected]>,
"John Richards" <[email protected]> wrote:

> "St. John Smythe" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > decaturtxcowboy wrote:
> >> A cellphone is meant to be a communications device, not a fashion
> >> statement.
> >
> > So, how do you feel about wristwatches?
>
> I quit wearing a wristwatch when I got a cellphone. Why does one
> need more than one device with the correct time?


I second that! Well, fashion and design goes hand in hand, just imagine
we are still using motorola brick.

St. John Smythe wrote:
> decaturtxcowboy wrote:
>> A cellphone is meant to be a communications device, not a fashion
>> statement.
>


I cross that bridge when wristwatches are par with Dick Tracy's "Wrist
Radio", until then...Walmart can keep their watches.

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:52:16 -0500, "St. John Smythe"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>decaturtxcowboy wrote:
>> A cellphone is meant to be a communications device, not a fashion
>> statement.
>
>So, how do you feel about wristwatches?

And cars. And I suppose he lives in a quonset hut and goes to
work every day in a grey jumpsuit.

DGI

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:35:21 GMT, "John Richards"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>"St. John Smythe" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>> decaturtxcowboy wrote:
>>> A cellphone is meant to be a communications device, not a fashion
>>> statement.
>>
>> So, how do you feel about wristwatches?
>
>I quit wearing a wristwatch when I got a cellphone. Why does one
>need more than one device with the correct time?

Some of us use subways, and Sprint, at least, hasn't put forth
the effort to see to it that the phone retains a timekeeping function
when it's not connected to any network. Actually, my old Nokia 6185
kept telling the time.

DGI

Someone should tell that to the millions of teenage girls the comprise a
very large portion of the cellular phone customer base.

"decaturtxcowboy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> David G. Imber wrote:
>> I didn't read the entire article, but the cellular companies
>> needn't put fashion _before_ data speeds or any other phone function.
>> And the word fashion is misleading.
>
> A cellphone is meant to be a communications device, not a fashion
> statement.

Watches are fashion. Males are very limited in expression of fashion and
therfore a wristwatch is one fashion accessory that men should have. Just
like having good shoes.

"sw" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> "John Richards" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> "St. John Smythe" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>> > decaturtxcowboy wrote:
>> >> A cellphone is meant to be a communications device, not a fashion
>> >> statement.
>> >
>> > So, how do you feel about wristwatches?
>>
>> I quit wearing a wristwatch when I got a cellphone. Why does one
>> need more than one device with the correct time?
>
>
> I second that! Well, fashion and design goes hand in hand, just imagine
> we are still using motorola brick.

Mij Adyaw wrote:
>
> Watches are fashion. Males are very limited in expression of fashion and
> therfore a wristwatch is one fashion accessory that men should have. Just
> like having good shoes.
>
> <snip>

Huh?

Again, I use my watch for telling time. Nothing more, nothing less.

Notan

In article <[email protected]>,
"Elmo P. Shagnasty" <[email protected]> wrote:

> In article <[email protected]>,
> "Mij Adyaw" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Watches are fashion. Males are very limited in expression of fashion and
> > therfore a wristwatch is one fashion accessory that men should have. Just
> > like having good shoes.
>
> John, I didn't know you swung that way.
>
> Doesn't surprise me, though.
>

Hey, that is the reason behind calling him anus.