Friday, June 09, 2006

Why doesn't Verizon have any good phones?

I've been a Verizon customer since I've ever had a cell phone. Their service is astounding, I get service almost everywhere, but there is one huge problem: They have the most ugly phones on the planet. In the early days of cell phone technology, it was ok for the cell phone to look ugly. But as competition has increased and market entry prices dropped, any cell phone can more or less get the job done. So the way to get more market share you think would be to make people think that your phone is cool. Making it the size of a laptop and making it have computing functions is not exactly the way to take the market. Is it just all cell phones in America are ugly?

I remember my days back in Tokyo, my cell phone was beautiful. And it only cost 20 bucks! Here I payed 80 for something that wasn't even comparable. Why are we so behind in cell phone design? We have the asian companies producing our phones: LG, Samsung, ect. Why are they holding out on us? And the decent looking cell phones out there, why is Verizon not selling them? I swear they take the catalogs and pick the most god awful looking phones to offer to their subscribers. Please Verizon if you see this, get some beautiful phones. I'm glad you finally decided to add the Razor to your repertoire, but that's not enough. Please hire someone with design credentials to pick out the cell phones you offer instead of someone who has no idea what they are doing.

Thanks

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Dude, This is america. Everything must be done different, ineffeciently, big, and huge. I mean look at McDonala. You biggie size that and then while eating it you biggie size with your waiste.

I mean, the more I study design and efficincy, the more irritated I am getting at the structures around me.

Oh by the way the verizon service has been dropping calls so much lately. I barely got a dropped call with T-Mobile but with verizon I got more dropped call in a week than I did in a year with T-Mobile.