Samsung Gleam. That was peak cellphone.

Flagship stuff is just optimized.

You probally wouldn’t be surprised to find out a bunch of interesting designs of the past had durability and longevity issues.

OK. Suppose so.

I've just been reminded that in the wonderful 70s people felt a bit similarly suppressed and the future dim as compared to 60s as we do now as compared to 00s.

Nothing is new.

What is important, though, is that nothing existing has been given to us be benevolent or harsh, kind or cruel gods. It has all been built by people just like us.

To dream and to work are the most important parts.

Rather Unihertz. They basically have just the unusual phones.

Currently I have Ulefone Armor 24, but I'd want something like Oukitel WP100 Titan. Even larger and crazier.

Look at that 33Ah thing:

Almost brick size now. It's so ridiculous I want it. After all, what I have now isn't far from if, it's just that this is even bigger.

3.6cm (1.4 inch) thick, 877g (1.93lbs) heavy.

But somehow it still can't fit a headphone jack and MicroSD card slot, so that's a no for me.

Calling the big grey bezels of old TVs stylish is certainly an interesting take.

Its good. Just how laptop has been solved so is smartphone right now. I like my tiny black bricks, keep your corporate style to yourself.

Yeah, and personally, I don't feel any wish to go back to skeuomorphism. It is funny to look back to and feel some nostalgia, but I think it would look cheap now if they did it like 15 years ago. Maybe iOS' glassy-ui will create some elements that people like about it, but they luckily did not move back to busy ui element backgrounds.

I do partially agree with his buttons and app-points. I dislike how we are forced to download apps for everything, including the questionable tracking software.

Been reading Vonnegut again and it's astonishing how he's calling out the exact same societal ills we have today. Only thing he missed was global warming and that's because many in the 70s thought we were headed for an ice age.

Laptop has been solved?, then why are the hinges on most of my laptops garbage that become creaky and eventually break.

Picked a great time to follow my dream as an industrial designer, only to graduate during COVID and realize that not a single company actually cares to improve the user experience of their products or systems.

Feels like I got a more exclusive and more expensive art degree.

Calling the big grey bezels of old TVs stylish is certainly an interesting take.

I haven’t had a hinge failure on a MacBook for 20 years.