"I was working at a shop selling all kinds of technology products at the end of my degree in Brighton when I had the idea," Bean told Core77. We evolve straight on down past the candybars and flip phones, until we arrive at the iPhone, the latest evolution. It starts with the amazing DynaTAC, the famous gray brick cell phone featured in Wall Street, when it was still luxurious and glamorous to be carrying such a device. The iPod looks big and clunky, and while the Nokia candybar style phone is popular in the developing world, it's almost unrecognizably different from the iPhone I tote around with me everywhereīritish designer Kyle Bean has tackled the evolution of technology with a cool project that imagines the evolution of mobile phones through the design of a Russian nesting doll. I know they're there, but every time I stumble into them, I marvel at how much technology has changed over time. Obviously a smartphone is outside the main list for obvious reasons, but below are two irresistible examples.Tucked away in a box in my studio is a second generation iPod and one of the old Nokia candybar phones. The huge advantage of that route is that you remain able to communicate the way most people do now – via a disparate array of messaging apps, typing at speed and rarely speaking. It’s worth remembering that you can get a relatively ‘light’ phone without depriving yourself of much needed features if you opt instead to exercise your own self-control. There are a variety of phones to suit particular needs on the list above, but one that occurs more than once is the now firmly established digital detox market. The giant antenna stops it looking like an average dumb-phone, but put up nearly anywhere in the world and thanks to a network of geostationary satellites you will be able to make a call without fear of the satellite moving out of position. The phone is built for adventure with IP65 compliance, a reflective screen with Gorilla glass, a dedicated location sharing button (texting your location as a GPS text to an interested follower), and an SOS button. Together and you have the recipe for a dumb-phone like tech best suited to keeping in contact from remote locations, which is just what the IsatPhone 2 does. Physics, however, does give satellites one huge advantage: the infrastructure is just a few satellites able to see most of the earth’s surface. Because of the limited bandwidth, this technology hasn’t embraced data transfer with the same enthusiasm as cellular. One kind of phone which ought to appear in this list is one of the best satellite phones. Dumb may be the opposite of smart, but what we really mean here are phones which are relatively inexpensive, can handle basic communications, may also include a camera and music player, can be relatively robust, and significantly, in many cases, only need charging once a week. On the other side of the coin the name ‘dumb phone’ very much does the devices it encompasses a disservice. They’re also potentially problematic if you’re paying your employee’s bills. In exchange for that, they’re expensive, have a short battery and shelf life, and are relatively delicate. The descendants of the iPhone are good at multitasking, handling simple computing tasks and providing us media on the move (social and traditional). Now, though, times have changed the success of the best smartphones is assured, so rather than eliminating the last memories of other kinds of handset, it’s perhaps worth choosing the best phone for the job. Ever since Steve Jobs introduced his ‘internet communicator’ to the world in 2007, the traditional mobile phone has been taking a kicking.
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