From: Randall Parker 

Robert Comer wrote:
>> I'd like to have a techie discussion on what to want and avoid in cellphones
and,
>> more generally, what is wrong in the general philosophy of cellphone design.
>
> Trying to do too much with a tiny screen and extremely limited keypad,
> but the converse of that is that if they put a bigger screen on it and
> a decent keypad, it becomes too bulky and expensive.

This seems to be the basic problem with cell phones: to make them useful for any
purpose other than as a phone they have to  become bigger. But then they don't fit in
your pocket

Aside from fitting in, say, a shirt pocket what is wrong with bigger phones from an
ergonomic standpoint? Do you dislike holding a bigger phone up to the side of your
face because of the weight or because of the size or is that not a problem?

>
> All I really need is a phone and that's all I use...
>

But if the size constraint could magically vanish would you still feel that way about
it? Imagine a screen that could be stretched to a bigger size as needed. Imagine some
nanofilm that could do that. Would you then use such a  phone for more purposes?

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