John's Phone: a minimalist cell phone
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John's Phone: a minimalist cell phone
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#2I don't think I could survive very long without an electronic address book.
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#3Amazing. I need to get one of these for my grandfather.
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#4I don't think I could survive very long without an electronic address book.
It does have speed dial, so you could put in the most frequently-used numbers.
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#5Novel design, although not something entirely new. Swedish telephony equipment manufacturer Doro has for several years had a number of "senior citizen" cellphones on the market in the same geist as John's Phone, some of them even simpler. A few models even include an assault alarm.
This model's design is interesting in how clearly it speaks about what demography it's aimed at: http://www.doro.co.uk/products/Mobile-phones-and-accessories...
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#6It's good for old people and aggressive people that frequently like to throw their phones away, because they are cheap. Nobody else will buy it just because its got a "minimalist design".
The iPhone has only one button.. seems even more minimalist.
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#7I don't think I could survive very long without an electronic address book.
It appears to have a paper phone book in the back behind a flap .. awesome.
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#8I always wanted something like the old Nokia 7280 for a second (small) phone for times when I don't want to carry my expensive smartphone but I could never get myself to buy a second phone...
http://www.livingroom.org.au/cameraphone/images/thumbnails/1...
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#9And no SMS.. :( Would have definitely considered if it had SMS...
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#10It's good for old people and aggressive people that frequently like to throw their phones away, because they are cheap. Nobody else will buy it just because its got a "minimalist design". The iPhone has only one button.. seems even more minimalist.
Although I won't buy that phone, I would be interested in a solid, beautifully designed phone that simple focuses on being a phone and doing that really really well.
Think Vertu, but not crap and designed by someone with actual taste and not stupidly priced and...OK, so perhaps not Vertu.