> Also, cell phones need fobs. In Japan, at least, they generally have them (a conspicuous exception being the U.S.-designed iphone...): Japanese-designed cel

> Also, cell phones need fobs. In Japan, at least, they generally have them (a conspicuous exception being the U.S.-designed iphone...): Japanese-designed cellphones almost always have a hole in the case for attaching a strap, and many people use it, usually buying a strap with a character miniature or something on the end as a sort of little "handle". These are really quite useful—my phone has been saved from falling quite a few times by its strap, and when digging in my bag for my phone, it's usually the strap that comes to hand first—and afford an opportunity for cheap and simple user-customization. I've always been a bit mystified that U.S. phones haven't copied this idea (which shouldn't add any cost or complexity to manufacturing). Surely somebody would have noticed by now... [Although Japanese-designed smart phones still have such holes, cases seem to have subsumed the formerly ubiquitous straps as a user-customization method to some degree...]