Comments on: I’m Just Waiting for the Phone

By: Lydia Manx

Lydia Manx — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:44:18 +0000

Two words Jer, “Man Purse”! I figure it’s not so much the phone as your abusive pockets (nothing more to add in the G Rated world here).

*whistles and wanders off*

By: Gerald Byrnes

Gerald Byrnes — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:03:52 +0000

My phone has survived the lake, a serious crash, the expedition’s tires and the scratches don’t show that much. Of course the online software is slow and clunky, and it doesn’t have a user replaceable chip and it doesn’t work on European network. Otherwise, it’s great.

By: Carol Anne

Carol Anne — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:04:40 +0000

Once upon a time, we had an old Motorola Flip-Phone that might as well have been made of steel. We dropped it (sometimes in water). We stepped on it. Somehow it even once got itself tangled up with the seat-moving hardware of our vehicle, creating nasty-looking cracks all over its face. But it never quit working.

Unfortunately, all it did was make and receive telephone calls.

We now have another Motorola that also has stood up to a lot of abuse, that does more, but not all of the things that you want.

It seems like there is a trade-off between features and durability. I notice that Toshiba is advertising a phone that is supposed to stand up to great levels of abuse while also having lots of features. But I don’t know how accurate those advertising claims are.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:08:18 +0000

I just sent Steve Jobs an email. It said simply this:

Remember when you made a laptop out of bulletproof plastic that kids could just throw in a backpack without worrying? I want the phone version of that. I could never own an iPhone the way they’re made now. They don’t work with pockets.