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Also that Samsung phone he likes so much looks like utter crap, and I promise that spring mechanism isn't going to last a year. There's a reason those designs
by FussyZeus 10y ago
Also that Samsung phone he likes so much looks like utter crap, and I promise that spring mechanism isn't going to last a year.
There's a reason those designs aren't in the real world: every single moving part is a new exciting point of failure, and our current devices with nearly no moving parts fail enough.
- intoverflow2 10y agoThat's from the Matrix 2 right? The Nokia 7110 which was inspired by the first film had the spring loaded mouthpiece was a great phone. (The phone in the actual film wasn't spring loaded IRL)
- strictnein 10y agoI wanted that phone in the first movie so badly. That thing was great looking.
- throwanem 10y agoI won't lie and say I didn't think it looked cool when I saw it in the movie. But, in the movie, it was surrounded by an entire artificial reality which had been painstakingly constructed around a single aesthetic. No other reality is the same. That seems like an important distinction to keep in mind. And you're right about spring and slider mechanisms. There were a couple of Palm designs (the Zire 71 and Tungsten T3) which used them. They were nifty, to be sure. They were also plagued by issues revolving around mechanical failure of the Kapton ribbon cables used to connect the electronics in the two halves of the device. There's a reason beyond aesthetics why nobody really makes anything like that any more, and why moving parts in general are less and less frequently encountered in hardware that's expected to withstand its owner's lifestyle rather than being cosseted as in the past.