It's official: I can't use accustomed cellphones anymore. Bulky user interfaces, approximate conventions, acquirements curve... They should all die.
The Gadget: Sony Ericsson W995a, an apart Wi-Fi and A2DP-enabled 3G cellphone that puts calm a 8.1-megapixel camera—with geo-tagging capabilities, face detection, flash, autofocus, and committed buttons—and a Walkman.
The Price: $600
The Verdict:
The W995a is able-bodied built, feels solid. I mean, there's annihilation decidedly amiss with it except for the keyboard, which seems chiffon and decumbent to inaccurate typing. It has a admirable screen. The media reproduction capabilities are OK. You can use concrete buttons to play, pause, go forward, and backwards. And they ablaze up! Oh the joy.
And again there is the camera. I had abundant hopes for the 8.1mp camera. I capital it to be great, but I just concluded up with college resolution versions of the aforementioned photos I get with my other phone...
OK. I'm sorry. I can't do this.
The absolute adventure is that the W995a is basically the aforementioned cellphone as the aboriginal cellphone I've anytime acclimated and admired dearly: My accurate Sony Ericsson T68i. That affair and I had history, and I admired it. I admired the aforementioned cast menu, the aforementioned bizarre user interface that makes you go through a hundred screens afore extensive the abode you want, and I even admired the predictive keyboard—which in fact absolutely didn't plan well, but whatever.
That was in 2002.
I don't beggarly to aces on the Sony Ericsson here, which is apparently one of the best dumbphones of its kind, a absolutely adequate top end specimen. No, I'm talking about the absolute abuse class of cool big-ticket phones that do annihilation appropriate compared to the phones we had a decade ago.
I went through added impaired cellphones afterwards that, all the same, from Nokia, from Motorola, LG, Samsung... all these impaired cellphones accept the aforementioned bulky interfaces, the aforementioned bad media handling, the aforementioned bad internet access. There were "smartphones" again too. But they weren't that smart. I had a BlackBerry, for example, that was just a adored cellphone with a caster and nicer mail than the rest, which didn't accept mail at all. Sony and Nokia aswell had "smartphones." They were so happy.
Fast advanced to 2007. With the cellphone bazaar already saturated with hundreds of combinations of dumbphones, Apple appear the iPhone. Nokia absolved it. Motorola too. (Motowho?) So did RIM and the rest. These "newbies" from Cupertino didn't accept the cellphone business—how could they acquaint a phone? The bazaar anticipation contrarily and the iPhone blanket the show. Humans saw artlessness captivated in acceptable design, and even admitting not everybody bought it, everybody accomplished all of a abrupt that cellphones don't accept to be bulky machines abounding of buttons and neverending approximate menus.
The iPhone redefined the bold and humans aimlessly knew that, and the smartest companies followed suit. Next came Android and Palm Pre and the not-yet-released Windows Mobile 7, versions of the aforementioned basal idea: Smartphones are not about axle on the crap. Smartphones absolutely are simplerphones which, because of that, in fact can do added than dumbphones.
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The Real Verdict—About All Dumbphones: So my final catechism is: How can companies accumulate absolution added or beneath the aforementioned dumbphones from 2002 in 2009? I don't accept a clue. There are 4 billion cellphones in the planet and only 10% are smartphones. That amount is ascent bound and will alone advance as Android takes off, Pre launches, RIM tries to accomplish a smarter BlackBerry, and Apple keeps with its plan to boss the apple with the iPhone ancestors of products. It's no accompaniment that Nokia—the better set maker in the world—has gone from earning billions to aggravating to survive. It's aswell no accompaniment that Nokia's arch ambassador names Apple, Microsoft and RIM as his arch competitors, and not LG, Samsung or atomic of all Motorola.
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Some will say that there should be cellphones for everyone. True. Cheap impaired cellphones for $10 a pop are great. But this affair costs $600. Added agnate phones from added companies amount about the aforementioned after a contract. In 2009, I can't acquisition any alibi to buy something like this.
Click to viewDumb cellphones—like the W995a—are like the coolest, fastest typewriters in an age of chat processors.
And they should all die.
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