The World’s Simplest Cell Phone Has The Perfect Design

There's lots of criticism in this thread regarding the practicality of the design, but this is simply a link bait post based on a simple prototype by a design student done as a personal project.

I've been following Andrew Kim on his blog for some time now and I think he's an excellent designer who likes to regularly challenge status quo thinking through his designs (i.e. http://www.minimallyminimal.com/minimally-minimal/2010/3/15/...).

The kid is still just a student, but has a ton of potential. I'm looking forward to what he produces when he finishes school and goes out into industry.

Machined brass? That's gonna be heavy, and wouldn't any scratches through the finish eventually develop tarnish?

When seeing the headline, I was hoping for something more like "John's Phone", except minus the flaws with its switches and buttons[1] and perhaps minus the physical address book which makes it thicker than necessary.

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/06/johns-phone-review-the-wo... -> direct video http://www.viddler.com/player/c6a25174/

There is something weird with the logic that lack-of-options (or hiding options) makes something a perfect design. To me, just one button in all the margin "whitespace" is a huge waste.

By that article's standard, this transparent phone is actually "more" perfect:

http://www.gsmarena.com/mobiado_and_aston_martin_show_transp...

  Most smartphones have a mono speaker that only 
  sends audio to one ear.

Pardon me? I still hear sound with both ears, mono or stereo. And I highly doubt having two speakers so little apart from one another does make that much difference. People who want better experience use earphones. Stereo speakers on the phone is just a gimmick, imho.

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