Sponge Phone

Anyone in the IT industry sort of MUST have a smart phone, because of the peer pressure and apps. Minutes and data plans are outrageously expensive. Mad at the bank for charging $5 using their service? Why isn't anyone marching at the phone companies?

If everyone around you have a smart phone, those with a yesteryear flip phone seems like losers. Apps are great, texting is great for discrete messages, but guess what, the phone company have all the records. Ha! ain't no discrete messages. People are sure to spy on the dialogues.

Smart phones with glass tops are fragile. They are hard to grip, the sharp edges dig on the palm. How to pick up a call? Slide the thing, what? How to wake up a smart phone who is sleeping all the time? Slide the thing, sometimes slide a piece of jig saw puzzle, totally counter intuitive.

Sponge size smart phones are not comfortable to use. So what do most people do, they'd buy covers and shells for the phones and add bulk. The mall sell the covers for over $20 for a piece of plastic. Who would buy that? smart phone users are known to be able to scan a barcode and get the best price, right? Enough people spend on those rip off cases for the countless kiosks at the mall.

At the mall, I was looking at these shells and the sales wouldn't stop yakking on the phone. Dude, I'm a customer, you're at work, drop the damn phone. Nope, I didn't buy anything from him.

Sponge phones have small screens.

Men over 50 can't see anything close, and they are the guys with the money for smart phones. How would a truly smart phone solve this problem? (some sort of Star Wars style projector?)

Sponge phones are bulky.

Most men over 35 have huge bellies, they can't find the phone under their belt, how would a truly smart phone solve that problem? (There should be huge business for smart phone clothes)