The latest smart phone actually looks like... a phone!

[christa]

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[cezanne]

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Looks like a calculator to me.

[christa]

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haha well it's close enough for me. considering the size and shape of most on the market this is a very nice device.

maybe you have to actually be holding it to tell.

[pzarquon]

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Hmm. Doesn't look any more or less like a cell phone than most cell phones, to me. Certainly has the same mass of keys that some of the more complex ones do, very much like a Treo and the Microsoft "smartphones" that cloned the design, though perhaps in a smaller form factor (to the chagrin of anyone with fat fingers). No slick hinge like the Razr or snappy hidden keyboards or screens, at least.

Reading the article, in fact, makes it clear that this phone would be Exhibit A to anyone who decries the so-called evolution of phones to "do everything" devices. Lots of folks just want a phone, not all the bells and whistles that imply that your phone can also run your "digital lifestyle." This sucker wants to do everything, which often means it probably doesn't do any one thing particularly well.

But, what do I know. I own a "do everthing" Treo!

[hawaiidreamin]

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Looks nice-I am still a fan of the flip phone or at least one that covers the keypad- most of these new phones with these "smart" features never have that.

[adrian]

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I wonder if you can snap it in half LOL

And the Moto better release the Q for GSM.

[craigwatanabe]

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this is about as close to a retro portable phone as you can get:

[christa]

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this is about as close to a retro portable phone as you can get:

!!!!!! that's got to be the hottest thing ever. i must have it. not kidding.

[adrian]

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this is about as close to a retro portable phone as you can get:

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/6...ch01zi2.th.jpg

No its not. This is:

[christa]

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No its not. This is:

just got back from making my F.P.O.T.D. (can you guess what THAT acronym means. ha) so thank you. thank you a thousand times.

[Leo Lakio]

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just got back from making my F.P.O.T.D. (can you guess what THAT acronym means. ha) so thank you. thank you a thousand times.

Final Post Of The Day?

[adrian]

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Final Post Of The Day?

urbandictionary.com has it as the "first post of the day"

[craigwatanabe]

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No its not. This is:

But where's the neck thingie that double sticks to the back of the receiver to make it a...hands free kit!!!DOH

Man I'd love to get one of those but alas the description indicated it doesn't work with RAZRs/

BTW I still have my old MaBell/GTE desk rotary phone in that puke flesh tone color. My kids think its weird having no buttons on it. "How do you use it?" they ask. Well because I'm on tone and not pulse dialing I couldn't dial out and show them but I did tell them how each fingertip in the dial represented the number of pulses needed for the telephone exchange to recognize the number dialed.

[christa]

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hardly.... i'm addicted! so many things to discuss in here! what i'm eating... what i'm driving. so easy to just respond and read and respond and .... read!

oh--

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[adrian]

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But where's the neck thingie that double sticks to the back of the receiver to make it a...hands free kit!!!DOH

You know, I never could do that. I just use my bluetooth headset if I want handsfree (but then, I'd be getting looks that I'm talking to myself).

hardly.... i'm addicted! so many things to discuss in here! what i'm eating... what i'm driving. so easy to just respond and read and respond and .... read!

Now you know why some of us don't leave our computers

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Oh. You learn something new everyday.