Are people still showing off their iPhones in 2010? To me, all an iPhone says nowadays is "I may be out on the town right now, but if my boss emails me I'll be able to reply within seconds."
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":
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.
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":
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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.