It’s entirely safe to say that I know more about David Bowie’s Fashion than I do about fashion in general; that’s clearly FabSugar’s territory, after all. Reader Jubbin Grewal knows more, and has thoughts about what would make the perfect fashion phone.
Grewal’s analysis is interesting; he looks at the history of Giorgio Armani phones; we’ve noted previously that it’s a somewhat embarrassing history, to put it kindly. He then goes on to examine what a “Fashion Smartphone” should ideally have.
It’s well worth a read; while I agree with him that a good phone should be ideally pretty thin, have good battery life and a good screen, I’m not so sure that the actual underlying OEM for the phone matters that much as long as it’s well built; surely the point of a fashion phone isn’t just that it looks good but that it’s also slathered with as much fashion branding as possible? [TechIn5]
Robert
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 3:33 PMRemind you of anything?:
http://blog.phoneslimited.co.uk/files/2008/11/prada-2-x-3.jpg
A fashion phone should value aesthetics over function. It should be designed so that the dumbest of airheads can use it. You know.. like an iPhone.. The Ed Hardy of phones for the non-discerning douchebag.
SkinHead
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 4:01 PMAdd something sparkly and charge $10,000 more.
Still cant get reception
Jackson Bison
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 4:14 PMHa Ha Snap!
Johnny P
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 4:25 PMThe iPhone 5 will be the true fashion phone. I can see yuppies and wanna-be techies barking voice instructions into their phone and thinking they are all that. Although some bloggers are saying that iPhone 5 and iOS 5 will be the death of android…..
AA
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 4:33 PMAs long as iOS exists so will Android.
But I don’t have an iPhone 5 and iOS5 as apparently all the bloggers out there do in order to create their ‘informed’ ‘opinions’
Corteks
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 6:54 PM“Although some bloggers are saying that iPhone 5 and iOS 5 will be the death of android…..”
ROFL.
Adam
Saturday, October 1, 2011 at 8:10 AMThe funny thing is that ios is becoming trendy for old people.
And a lot of young people are jumping ship and going Android.
Im sorry but if anyone really thinks that ios 5 will oust ics, they really dont know what they are talking about.
Ozoneocean
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 5:08 PMYeah, the be-all and end-all of “fashion” in phones in the iphone, it doesn’t matter what model: They have a uniform bland minimal design and the brand is universally recognised as being popular and “must-have”. iphones are synonymous with the concept of “smartphone” to the mass-market.
Jubbin
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 5:51 PMThanks for putting it up Alex (And Giz)!
I was pretty sad with the state of fashion phones which are being marketed as ‘smartphones for the wealthy’ when clearly… they suck. While it’s true a lot of users wouldn’t care twice about the specs, we’ve come a LONG way from the day where only geeks knew about phones and smartphons.
I’m sure quite a few users out there will want to look for a phone that looks good, and at the end of the day – is good (while it may not be the majority) I’m sure there’s more than 1!
Sheeds
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 6:04 PMCongrats on the post :) What about a Rivers phone ? :P
smurfydog
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 7:22 PMMade of corduroy perhaps?
Jubbing
Saturday, October 1, 2011 at 7:40 AMThanks mate!