There should be

[Matt Deckard]

A pocket watch that looks like an old fashioned pocket watch. opens and tells time like an old fashioned pocket watch... though in fact is a cell phone.

 

[Lancealot]

I'll contact Q Branch immediately and have them start to work on it. lol lol lol lol

 

[ShortClara]

I want a lipstick phone! Then I could groom and chat simultaneously, or chat on the QT whilst appearing to be grooming.

I like your pocketwatch idea, too.

 

[AlanC]

Just use your shoe phone:

 

[Matt Deckard]

Just use your shoe phone:

too cumbersome.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

but I'd always know where it is.

 

[John in Covina]

So it would be like if Sherlock Holmes invented the the Dick Tracy walkie talkie watch!

Better than a phone booth that is actually a grandfather clock and easier to carry.

 

[Starius]

Re: Pocket Watch Phone

Would you call it the "Tic-Talk"?​

Re: Shoe Phone

I can hear the slogan now: "Let your feet do the talking!"​

 

[Feraud]

No shoe phone! I do not want to be on a city bus with all those shoes off and to people's ears..p.u.

 

[MudInYerEye]

I am still waiting for non-alcoholic whiskey so my son can come to the bar with me.

 

[The real Henry]

Well, I would be totally satisfied with an art deco design made from brown bakelite!



Regards,
Henrik

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

Or how about black pebble-grain leather and stainless steel, like a vintage camera?

 

[Edward]

Or how about black pebble-grain leather and stainless steel, like a vintage camera?

I like that idea.

The one that really surprises me is they've not put out a widely available and cheap mobile phone which resembles Captain Kirk's communicator. I mean, surely there's enough of a market for that at least?

 

[jgilbert]

think you could text message with your numbers in a circle?

 

[BegintheBeguine]

I used to play with a light meter as if it were Captain Kirk's communicator.
My cell phone is often used as a watch, so that pocket watch idea is pretty cool.

 

[griffer]

Back in the late 90s I doodled a design for a spring loaded, deco, cell phone.

Concept was retro futuristic looks in rounded aircraft aluminum, one handed operation and truly water proof, drop proof when closed.

I wanted the aluminum shell to actually gain character rather than just break- dents, patinas and scuffs would add to the charm of the tough little throw back phone.

It's the phone Sky Captain would use.

All phones to me now are plastic, brittle, shiny and ephemeral.

My 'Aero' phone would be the opposite.

 

[Starius]

Back in the late 90s I doodled a design for a spring loaded, deco, cell phone.

Concept was retro futuristic looks in rounded aircraft aluminum, one handed operation and truly water proof, drop proof when closed.

I wanted the aluminum shell to actually gain character rather than just break- dents, patinas and scuffs would add to the charm of the tough little throw back phone.

It's the phone Sky Captain would use.

All phones to me now are plastic, brittle, shiny and ephemeral.

My 'Aero' phone would be the opposite.

Part of the reason why my I picked a RAZR V3 as my latest phone is because of the aluminum casing. That fact alone makes it feel like a higher quality product than the previous cell phones I've had.

Part of the casing at the bottom is plastic though, and this has turned out to be a good thing. The phone is so streamlined and slick in my hands I keep dropping the thing and it always seems to fall on that plastic casing part first when it hits the concrete. While there are visible defects on the corners now as a result, the plastic part does absorb the impact rather well. So I'm kinda glad thats there too.

Though, I wish I could just remind myself not to be such a complete butterfingers when I pull the phone out of my pocket.

 

[griffer]

But a Razr still isn't water proof or one-handed.

I am just constantly dissappointed by the phones available.

NOTHING grabs me.

Am I the only one that DOESN'T want a feature heavy music/camera/web/messaging/digital assistant/oh_yeah_and_a_kinda_ok_phone combo?

 

[MudInYerEye]

Caffeinated donut?

 

[The Wingnut]

Hack a Samsung SGH-P310 or P300 into a nice silver cigarette case and you're done.

All you need is some VHB double-sided tape and a Dremel.

...I'd do it myself but I'm not the leash type nor am I dropping $300+ on one.


...and yeah, the 'OMG CHECK OUT ALL THE CRAZY USELESS CRAP MY PHONE DOES' trend is, quite frankly, stupid.