Next generation wave of mobile devices: blame the iPhone
The iPhone has been a revolutionary device for many, because of it's small compact nature, minimal buttons and the touch screen interface. I would agree to some extent, but it's still got a long way to go to be classed as perfect.
Nevertheless, I think it's important to show the breadth of scale which Apple have begun, because it seems every new phone looks like the iPhone. It's beginning to annoy me a little bit.
If you take the three major mobile phones of the time, the Apple iPhone, the Google Android G1 and the BlackBerry Storm (left to right), plus the upcoming new device from LG; they're all following the same criteria of the iPhone:
- one single "slab" device"
- fully touch-screen with minimal buttons;
- all slim and curvy in design.
Yawn! Give us a break! The iPhone took off simply because the iPod was such a hit, but no other company will viably be able to jump on the iPhone-esque bandwagon.
There are dozens of new phones being unveiled every single day, and most of them don't resemble the above devices at all. Many still have the ordinary phone keypad, some have a QWERTY keyboard, and most don't have touch-screens. But the only phones that have and probably will take off, are the ones that resemble the iPhone.