I like to leaf through Spike's blog about his sundry and tawdry affairs in Hong Kong, not because I am at all interested in his personal life, but because occasionally the man doth present entertaining tech gadget stories with which I can find sympathy.

To be brief, Spike has a little trouble with a phone of his.

Last night, I was talking to a friend on the phone, which is something I rarely do. I'm usually a text and SMS kind of guy. She had just "inherited" a phone from her sister and she was complaining that she could not use it properly because the interface was so screwy to her eyes, she couldn't even figure out if she was pushing talk or speakerphone.

In Seoul, one of the big talks about mobile phones is about limiting the amount of things that happen inside the phone and within the interface.

Did you know that 41 percent of mobile device users prefer to carry two devices and that 34 percent would not mind carrying three?

Regardless, I would love to have one simple phone that has about three buttons on it:

1. Talk
2. Text
3. Virtual Keyboard, which would then disappear once you've tapped away on the screen.

Okay, I'm oversimplifying. Being able to run Google calendar would be nice. Reading email, too. And being able to get streaming video for conference calls would be decent. I guess all of those things can get pretty complicated.

 

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