Reverse the numbers and you get 1220. Feel old yet?
Look again. Reverse the numbers and you get 2102. Feel old yet? Look again.
Can’t believe it’s been 805 years without Adelaide II of Büren 😞
Ugh, too thick. And the bars at the top and bottom? Gag me with a spoon.
Who needs user-replaceable batteries, phones that are meant to be taken apart and repaired (aka… don’t glue the damn things together), or a device that doesn’t actively resist you changing your OS, when you have wrap around display?
I’m gonna be honest the design looks cool. forget the anti-consumer stuff about apple for a sec, like. it LOOKS cool. impractical? sure. but like, you’d definitely get the attention of everyone on the playground with that thing.
The future is now!
And in 2013 we’ll have this:
This idea is actually something I wish were true. The main challenge would be preventing accidental touches while still registering intentional touches. However, if that issue gets (mostly) solved, this idea could be very cool.
Imagine having contextual buttons for everything instead of the usual static volume/power buttons. e. g. You open your Lemmy client of choice, and there are side buttons for making posts, making comments, etc. We can take this even further: imagine you used the button to compose a comment, and now the contextual buttons change again to allow you to format your comment (like a WYSIWYG editor).
Also, realistically, if this were to be built, the edges would be curved, instead of the blocky slab shown.