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Can't get an iPhone? Fabricate your own

by Chris Ziegler posted Aug 11th 2007 @ 4:08PM

There are people with too much time on their hands, there are fanboys with too much time on their hands, and then there's this. It seems some enterprising fella over in iPhone-less Japan took it upon himself to build his own dummy iPhone. Yes, "build," as in "fabricate from scratch." As opposed to, say, flying to the States and picking one up -- at considerable expense, yes, but consider his chosen alternative. To his credit, the dummy looks absolutely superb right down to every minor detail -- if you forgive the old-school fake display with Cingular branding and a missing YouTube icon. Click on for the full pictorial from sketch to finished product.

[Thanks, Dale]

Study: many don't know the model of their phone

by Chris Ziegler posted Jul 18th 2006 @ 9:32PM

We can understand your phone's model name slipping your mind. Heck, we've even confused the occasional Nokia 6680 with a 6682. In a study commissioned by consulting group LogicaCMG, British research firm Ipsos MORI has found that 49% of surveyed users feel the pain, unable to recall their phone's model on command. More frightening, though, is that full 9% of folks don't know the model or make of their piece. As LogicaCMG's COO points out, "many operators could well be trying to sell advanced data services based on the incorrect assumption that the users they are communicating with have basic knowledge of their own handsets." We shudder to think that the under-informed masses could slow down 3G rollouts that are already poking along at a turtle's pace in some parts of the world, but we can see how being unable to distinguish a Samsung from a Sony Ericsson could limit your ability to make use of, oh, pretty much any feature beyond voice calling.

[Via textually.org]