Future of the cell phone?
37 signals says it is up for grabs, because for more functions than actually making a call, the UI sucks. Some are hoping for a new iPhone, Mike Arrington likes the upcoming Sony mylo.
That just looks like a mixture of PS2 controller and senso toy to me. It looks big, heavy and not like something I want to hold to my head (or can jam between head and shoulder).
Really people, if you want to create a device that people will love to use for calling people, listening to music, surfing the web on the fly, you have to realise that that is something that no device has done successfully in the past. Therefore, don’t use models of the past…
Update: Today, David Weinberger mentions another irk which shows that cell phones are not quite the save-my-life-companion we all take them for:
Cell
phones have clocks built in. So, if their batteries are low, why can’t
they figure out not to give you warning beeps if it’s the middle of the
night? What are they, babies?