The touch screen holds the designer's hands and feet

At a recent friend's party, the author found that most of the friends used a large touch screen mobile phone. This is not an isolated phenomenon. Since the iPhone 4 was launched, the large-screen touch screen mobile phone has become a product for consumers. It seems that if you do not use a large touch screen mobile phone, you will be ashamed to say hello to others.

Isn't the designer having any other ideas than the design of the large screen plus buttons? As consumers, do we have to use a rectangular phone? The appearance of a mobile phone may not be so monotonous.

More than a decade ago, Motorola had introduced a well-designed product, the Blade Series V70. The body is ultra-thin, and it looks slimmer after being rotated. It has the title of "razor". It can be said that this is Motorola's culmination of mobile phone design, its rotating design makes all consumers shine, sapphire-colored screen is even more distinctive. This is also true of Nokia. Nokia has always been an advocate for candybar phones, and its mobile phones are basically straightforward. In order to make its candy bar phone unique, Nokia joined the slider design in 1999 and Nokia 7110 came into being. It is worth mentioning that this phone has won the appreciation of the Wachowski brothers, captured in the sci-fi blockbuster "Matrix", in addition to the invincible Cadillac CTS, is the Nokia 7110. After the introduction of the Nokia 8210 is to create a precedent for mobile phone shell, 79 grams of the fuselage so that today a few hundred grams of "big" shame. Nokia's Nokia 7610 with a skew-symmetrical design and the N-Gage of a game console design are examples of Nokia's designs. The Nokia E71 is still used by many people today, and its qwerty keyboard is not only much better than the touch screen in terms of feel, but also more efficient than the traditional touch screen in terms of text input.

Nowadays, why do designers who once designed classic appearances one after another follow the pace of others and have no other ideas?

Nokia’s recently launched N9 series has shouted the slogan of “not following”, but it has still not escaped the design philosophy of the big screen. The same is true of Motorola’s new ultra-thin mobile phones. The BlackBerry can be said to be a model of adherence to tradition. The recently introduced BlackBerry 9900 incorporates touchscreen and qwerty keyboard, which is both convenient for consumers and preserves the tradition of BlackBerry.

The appearance of stereotyped mobile phones, the vast number of consumers have not been tired of it? Obviously, the answer is yes. Otherwise, there will not be hundreds of thousands of mobile phone shells on the market for sale, and sales will be considerable. It can be seen that the majority of consumers are not satisfied with the current appearance of mobile phones, but there is no better product choice.

For Nokia and Motorola, when consumers start to get tired of the appearance of an immutable mobile phone, it's a good opportunity for them to be creative. Consumers are eager to see products like the Nokia 7110 and the Motorola V70 that are full of design and eye-catching. Designers, it's time to get rid of the large touch screen.