Phones Need To Be Weird Again
A call to bring back the weird shapes and funky layouts of old
One of my favorite technology YouTube personalities to follow is Michael Fisher, more commonly known as Mr. Mobile. His content is always high quality and he is not afraid to talk about some fringe tech that most people will not consider. Recently, he has been focusing on some older phones in a series that he calls “When Phones Were Cool”. This series revisits devices from years ago that had daring designs such as the Motorola Aura and Danger Hiptop. The series is particularly interesting to watch today as basically all phones look the same, except for new foldable devices. Looking back at the phones of yesteryear, designs have gone the route of being more practical and uniform as opposed to daring and explorative. As a technology enthusiast, watching these videos has made me wish that the people designing phones would try to be more experimental in their approach.
With this desire in mind, I came across a crowdfunded project from a company named Brandeis with a new phone called Prometheus. At first…
