Dear Mobile Phone Designers,
It has come to my attention that, while the mobile phones of today have some truly awesome features and are getting better by the day, most of them are just plain ugly. An obvious example of this is the famed Nokia N95 – some of the best features on any phone out there, but it’s one of the ugliest handsets I have ever seen. It’s massive, it’s clunky, there’s a big gap between the screen and the keys that has nothing to do with anything, the camera on the front is kind of smushed randomly in the top, the keypad still manages to be too small and fiddly.. it’s just not good.
But you know what? It’s okay! Because I have the perfect solution for you.
First, a question, though. Why is it that phones in Japan and Korea are just so much cooler than phones anywhere else? Seriously. They have all kinds of insane flippy/slidey/twisty phones in hundreds of colours. I’m talking
vs. 
There’s just no competition! I mean, I understand that the N95 (God, here I go picking on it again) is a business phone, while the Sharp phone pictured on the left is clearly not. I can see why a business man wouldn’t want to walk around with a hot pink phone that twists horizontally. But why not make phones like the pink one as well? How come, all of a sudden, all phones are trying to look so serious and commercial?
The child/teenage/young adult market for mobile phones is huge. It’s got to the point where kids are getting their first mobile phone by the time they start primary school – and upgrading every other year. Why not make funky looking phones to appeal to that market? You wouldn’t even need to pack them full of fancy features, just a half decent camera and they’re set. It’s the perfect solution to all the boring looking phones of today.
Kind regards, Lettuth.
