I had the strange good fortune to get my paws on one of Sony Ericcson's new phones, the "Pureness" last week. In addition to igniting some pretty serious reactions in all different directions form my more design-minded friends just from an industrial design perspective, I have to say it's been a little study in the value of simplicity for me.It's MONOCHROME. I mean, the screen is frickin SEE THOUGH, but it's monochrome none the less. It's T-9, it's on edge for god's sake, it doesn't internet enough to matter, it doesn't even google map. It's just a phone. Which is honestly kind of fantastic. It rings, I answer. It's a cool looking, little tiny, phone.
T-9-ing again has caused me to reconsider the hidden advantages of basic and simple constraint. I can T-9 without looking, my brain remembers how to do it after years and years away. I'm not motivated to say or do too much with it, just keep it simple, say it simple. I write more on the laptop when I'm near it. I have a new little chunk of my life back.
When I first saw this thing I thought, "wait, why are they releasing a thousand-dollar phone from the 90's?" but here I am google voicing over to it so it doesn't matter what its number is T-9-ing just as fast as I can enter android text.... What's old is what's new?
Leave a comment