I ’m pose . How a phone that is both a composition utensil and a machine for making call to other humans — humans who might also be write with their pen phone when I call upon them — could fail is beyond me .
And yet , dear readers , this is just what happened to the efficiently named Siemens PenPhone , along with four other fallen angels of the mobile space . A quick moment of silence , if you please , for these five defunct firearm of communicating technology , all of which were taken , mercifully , before their time :
Siemens PenPhone
The said PenPhone was just that : A earphone that could recognize handwriting and turn that into an SMS . It never made it our of the concept phase , which appropriate me to hold out hope it may one daylight see the light of day and my hand .
Nokia 7700
Canceled in 2004 , this was Nokia ’s first attack at a touchscreen phone . There was also Bluetooth , an expansion slot and it kind of look like an N - Gage ! No wonder it go .
Samsung F520
The first of three Samsungs on the list , the Ford - sounding F520 was a split personality slider . It was one of the fellowship ’s first touchscreen devices but never saw the success of Samsung ’s recent handsets .
Samsung Watchphone
Ah , the watchphone . Since the twenty-four hour period of Dick Tracy we ’ve been waiting for this type of communications twist . lamentably , this $ 900 was too expensive and too limited for the mainstream , and we ’ll be await a while longer .
Samsung T700
Yuck . Designed to look like a composition case , this phone was targeted at women and missed mightily .
Who out there has a phone they ’ve owned and like to forget ? [ Unplugged – Thanks , Harel ]
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