If there's one thing people love, whether they want to admit it or not, it's to show off that they have an iPhone.
Now there's a colorful band-aid that goes on the base of the iPhone 4. It might as well just say "Look, I have an iPhone" right on it.
Some iPhone owners would love a way for it to stand out even more that they have an iPhone - well, here you go.
With this product, the FLAW in the iPhone has become a way for people to decorate their phone so that EVERYONE will notice they have an iPhone, and not just any iPhone, the latest and greatest iPhone!
Little success stories like this are fantastic.
If you ask me, the next trend will be obnoxiously low-utility phones: no apps, no email, nothing that would appeal to your average fourteen-year-old girl. See this graph from my favourite fashion site, which ranks the awesomeness of phones as a combination of "exclusivity" and "senseless lack of utility":
http://www.magnificentbastard.com/posts/ask-the-mb-portable-...
Personally, I really want a DynaTAC. Of course a DynaTAC won't work with modern cellphone networks, so I really want to get an old DynaTAC shell and insert the components from a new twenty-dollar phone. Maybe I could sell that on Etsy.
I disagree for a number of reasons, but the main four are:
* I am directionally challenged and informationally hungry. A smartphone is both a lightweight GPS (which saves my life) and a direct pathway into wikipedia in my pocket (which feeds my brain). Can't get that with a low-end phone.
* I use my phone to keep up with various mailing lists (not my boss, professional mail account isn't even on the phone)
* I use my phone for offline articles reading via InstaPaper, it's often far more confortable (and simpler) than doing it on a laptop, and I can get 10mn of reading any time I have no current activity
* Because I have an iPhone (though it's a lowly 3G) I have quite a number of pretty nice video games, so the phone doubles up as a lightweight portable console and avoids having to carry around a DS or a PSP (though it does severely dent the battery life of the machine)
And other, more social people, will no doubt be using their phones for their twittering, facebooking and all other multicast communication channels which are entirely unavailable on a Nokia 3310.
Not saying this couldn't breed a backlash due to information overload, but seriously userland "smart" phones have been going strong for nearly a decade in basically every first-world country but the US. Only in the US was it confined to the business side until 2007 and the iPhone broke free from the idea that smartphone = business.
You can get something pretty close.
http://www.babikenshop.com/triband-retro-brick-mobile-cell-p...
That sounds more like a Blackberry
And people think Apple's going to issue a recall. Heh.
"Look for the accessory ecosystem ... "
Good example
I have a bookmarklet, so I really didn't go through any "trouble"
For those who haven't seen it: http://antenn-aid.com/
"Technical Specifications: Uhm... it's a sticker"
You'd just slip your hand through the handle and never touch the phone.
That's actually not a bad idea!
We will be giving bumber cases until September 30th.
By then there might be some other solution, maybe Eminem
will release a band aid for the iPhone which everyone will
want to use.Build a business empire (ok a small principality) in an evening!