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Peter Margasak’s rant about cell phone photos from concerts hit home with me, not because I particularly mind them but because I’m sore tired of multifunction cell phones that do many things badly. A couple years ago I plunked down on a Nokia 6800 with a flip-out keypad for e-mailing (used as a dork signifier in The Devil Wears Prada), and it hasn’t yet improved my quality of life, plus I’m out a couple hundred bucks over that period for the service.
Emphasis mine, because I’m trying to make our movie critics mad at cell phones, too.
I do think Motorola has a hot-shit phone, however. It’s called the Motofone, and it’s designed to appeal to markets in developing countries. It goes for about $50, has a standby time of over two weeks, and uses e-ink instead of a screen to cut way down on battery usage.
