Phone Rant

Phone companies are showing off their newest phones at the 3GSM at Barcelona.

Sony Ericsson came out with a new WM phone made by hTC (the X1), a new clam shell Walkman phone W980i, and a slew of other ugly phones. The X1, well, it's cool, it's hTC, it's Windows Mobile. That means the price would be ridiculously high, and people using it would have to deal with all the pain of the start menu and endless popup windows and buttons, even when they are away from their computer. Come on, that "dig-in hell" where you have to keep on pressing "OK" or "next" until what you want finally shows up is really a pain in the ass that you suffer on the PC. Do you really want to suffer more for the rest of the day?

The W980i looks sweet, the clam shell design and big key keypad is great. But hay, 240x320 screen? It's a high end clam shell, why should I still peek through that tiny screen? I want a 480x854 screen now! It's standard in Japan, why should the rest of us suffer tiny screens?

And yeah, all the others are downright ugly, with the screen just as small or even smaller.

Now with Nokia. The N series seems to be more powerful then Sony Ericsson's offers, but hey, the tiny screens, arrrrrrrrrrrg! And also, N series phones are just fat, fat, fat.

What? Moto? Let's just skip that.

The present phone industry is just pathetic, the main reason I am now sticking with a cheepo $20 prepaid phone. Since they all suck (except in Japan and a few in Korea), I am paying the least I can for unavoidable junk.

And don't tell me how great the iPhone is. A touch screen only device looks cool but is a pain to use, and with the positioning of the screen on the device, you get cramped fingers faster then any buttoned phone. And should I point out the screen? 320x480 is still tiny when compared to 480x854, and it would be all smeared in finger prints and face grease. To top it up, you could get 2 Eee PCs for that idiotic price on a phone that weighs style over functionality.