silly metal phone.

No, not the razor, which might be fine phone not withstanding motorola's inability to build a decent user interface, Makoto Saito's penk phone for kddi's au network, I first saw it maybe on gizmodo; anyway it's as nice in your hand as it looks...









The shape has a fairly organic feel in you hand, and the device has a certain heft to it, without being terribly heavy. It's trivially pocketable.

Now that we've gotten to the point with this whole phone thing, where we having a few fairly mature general purpose phone platforms it would be nice to see more design driven handsets that actually feel good while adhering to regular user inface conventions. instead what we get are sort of bizarre experiments in usability...