Format frenzy for tomorrow’s phones
Just a few years ago, mobile phones resembled bricks. Now they are coming in a baffling variety of shapes, sizes, colours and designs
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Is yours a candy bar, a clamshell, a jack-knife or a taco—and is it about to disappear, or fragment into several pieces? We are talking, of course, about mobile phones. This sudden proliferation of new handset shapes has been caused by the convergence of two trends: the mobile phone's growing importance as a fashion item, and advances in hand-set technology.
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