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I'm bored with wearing a watch. I always seem to be taking it off - I take it off if I'm working with machinery at work, I take it off at home when I'm in the kitchen. I don't want to wear it. That's okay, though, because I have a phone which tells me the time. I can carry that around with me and hoik
it out when I need to know the time.
Except... it looks like a *phone*.
So I need some modern-day Hooke to create a thoroughly modern pocketwatch. Silver casing, big analogue clockface wih elegant Roman numerals - something of quality, something which can become my grandchildren's inheritance. The mechanism will have to be rather simple, though, because we're going to jam a basic phone into the back. Don't see a problem - strip out all the cameras and other gubbins that modern phones are weighed down by, and we can't be far off having something so small that it could fit in a case like this. Old pocketwatches unfolded so you could wind them up, so a clamshell design is a shoe-in.
Something beautiful, solid, simple. Obviously it would be fabulously expensive, but what an object.
(???) Pocket Watch Phone
http://www.flextron...ellphone_design.asp
Take a look at the Dial Analog Phone design on this page for the Flextronic Design Team's approach to creating a pocket watch phone. [jurist, Nov 17 2005]
Xelibri Fashion Phone
http://www.gsmarena...s_xelibri_6-552.php
I imagine it would look similar to this, except this one is based on a makeup compact design.... [shinobi, Nov 20 2005]
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How about phones in general that don't come with the hoo ha? |
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How many aging people want tiny digits, tiny screen with Madonna on it, internet connectivity and three thousand gmaes and fun-tones, just to speak to someone else? |
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Simple tech doesn't mean stupid. |
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Pocketwatch or brooch, this is very, very possible and overdue. |
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As long as it comes with a gold chain and fob, and you keep it in your waistcoat pocket, yeah! |
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I imagine mobiles will soon come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. some weird person will probably want a tin of baked beans phone. |
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My god, [jurist], those phone designs are repulsive. (Oops... no offence if you're implicated, er, responsible, er, no, if you can be credited with them). The materials are grotesque. Looks more like a sports stopwatch - but I guess it's aimed at a different market. The Pocketwatch Phone would be a much more elegant beast, made in a tiny shop in the Alps by elves under the eyes of vicious Witch Queen Quality Control, while the watchmaker was asleep. A *gentleman's* watch. Phone. Thing.
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True. I have to admit that the design I was pointing out reminded me a little bit of a woman's diaphragm case with a stopwatch on the cover. Perhaps the designers were really trying to evoke the concept of a "biological clock". Yours would be a far greater pleasure to possess. |
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I wish mobile phone manufacturers had chosen go down the path of making phones smaller and smaller, not more and more gimmicky. |
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However, is there a limit whereby a phone becomes too small for the user to use it and remain masculine? |
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No. You then start talking about how many MHz it has. |
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I manufacturer called Xelibri make these sort of funky things (linked). they are knows as fashion phones, but none to my knowledge are based on the oldschool pocketwatch design. |
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[Pa`ve], evidently we also need crappy cameras, web browsers, games, music, video etc. At least that's what the consumers are telling the manufacturers. |
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This ever-increasing list of 'features' holds the phone back from reaching its optimum functional design. |
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I think a face that used a digital ink display would be a perfect addition to this great idea. |
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[+] May I recommend a rotary dial? (or buttons in that
style). The lid could be a detachable bluetooth
earpiece. |
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