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I just need to look at this picture (http://www.boygeniusreport.com/gallery/handsets/motorola-droid/?pid=3582#picture_nav http://www.boygeniusreport.com/gallery
by maxklein 17y ago
I just need to look at this picture (http://www.boygeniusreport.com/gallery/handsets/motorola-droid/?pid=3582#picture_nav http://www.boygeniusreport.com/gallery/handsets/motorola-dro...) to know that it's going to be another flop. Two things I believe someone should tell these companies:
1. Don't save on your casing
2. Girls don't like slide-out keyboards.
The killer android phone will look like the razr and be pretty expensive.
- davidw 17y agoThe thing about Android is that eventually, there will probably never be a phone that is as beautiful as whatever iPhone's doing, but that there can models for everyone's tastes. Something like this for the geeks, a slick, slim clamshell like you say, and all kinds of others.
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- roc 17y agoWhich is/was the same philosophy behind Symbian and Windows Mobile. Suffice to say, that flexibility comes at non-trivial cost.
- fpgeek 17y agoFirst, Android is already light-years ahead of Windows Mobile. Second, from what I've seen of the SDKs, Google is doing quite a bit (most notably with their manifests) to maximize the reach of the platform (e.g. netbooks, automotive systems, set-top boxes) without unduly burdening cross-device portability.
- gaius 17y agoWhat is the data underlying point 2?
- moe 17y agoSeconded. The sidekick was pretty popular with girls, for all I know. Also I personally like the look. The edgyness may indeed not appeal much to girls - but I'd say it's definitely geek-compatible.
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- maxklein 17y agoI know about 200 girls. 0 of them have slide-out keyboard phones. It's not a very significant number, but it's enough for me. It's like me claiming that star shaped eyeglasses are not in fashion, because I don't see people wearing them, and you ask me to prove it. I can't prove it, but it just seems to me to be correct.
- gaius 17y agoI know at least 2 girls with Nokia N95s, so that disproves that then :-) I suppose it's mostly fashion. Flip phones seem rare these days, for example.
- maxklein 17y agoIt's more than that. Slide-out keyboards are a geek thing. Teen Girls like things that are dainty, and nobody ever used that word to describe a slide-out keyboard. Teen girls grow into women who want feminine things, and bulky phones with slide out keyboards are rather masculine.
- gaius 17y agoTeen girls around here like full-sized BlackBerries.
- rbanffy 17y agoI think just about every phone with slide out keyboard is either Nokia Symbian (they suck) or Windows Mobile (sucks beyond what polite language can describe) Only now we are starting to see nice phones with nice software with slide-out keyboards. An interesting point is implied - that men are more resistant (or less sensitive) to suckiness than women. That's something to debate.