Text only, minimalist design.
A clean simple functional OS.
A challenge to the notion that you need a million apps, a touch screen and an expensive data plan.
Text based browser, text based email.
The Minimalist’s Phone.
Because if you’re not by a computer you can probably do it on the phone.
… And if you can’t do it on the phone you can pull out your iPad.
Consider the movement started.
NOTES:
I always thought this was the direction Blackberry should have gone, but now it seems like a new company embodying more 21st century values would be better suited to the challenge.
I like this idea. John’s phone is now out:
http://www.psfk.com/2010/11/johns-phone-review-the-worlds-simplest-mobile-phone.html
Awesome! As anyone in design can tell you sometimes less is more.