Cell Phone lets you use it with gloves still on

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By jonahbc
Posted 2007/12/19 @ 1:00 pm
Category Computers & Mobile

Designed for winter, this cell phone’s large buttons allow its user to use them outside while wearing thick gloves. The concept brings in to question what other specific types of contexts phones could be developed for or how they could be made to easily adapt to their environments and specific user scenarios in general.

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4 Responses to Cell Phone lets you use it with gloves still on

Wubby on December 19th, 2007 at 6:28 pm said:

Well, if it’s designed for winter, why is it white? Almost any other color for winter is better. i realize it’s just a concept phone but, wouldn’t it be ironic if you were so happy to have use of a phone with your gloves on that you dropped it in a nearby snowdrift? Needle, meet haystack.

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Scott Messinger on December 20th, 2007 at 7:06 am said:

I think a more useful idea would be a container for any cell phone, with a connector on the inside and buttons on the outside. It might cause problems with the signal, but then you could use a passive external antenna to help the signal pass through the box.

Then you wouldn’t need to use a seperate phone everytime you go skiing.

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Kim on December 21st, 2007 at 3:36 am said:

When I was selling cell phones there were SO MANY people that just wanted a basic phone with big buttons (especially older folks). I think they’d be better off marketing it as something like that rather than a “winter” phone!

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Justin Pike on January 12th, 2008 at 9:49 am said:

I thought I saw this somewhere before, wouldn’t it be easier to modify the gloves? Add a nipple to the thumb or something like that.

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