<story><title>Future Screens Are Mostly Blue</title><url>http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/future-screens-are-mostly-blue/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GFischer</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s been several years since I moved to a touchscreen phone, and I still hate them for the &amp;quot;making calls and answering&amp;quot; workflow - I used to be able to make calls and answer without having to physically look at the phone - the StarTac&amp;#x27;s flick to open would be a good example of that.&lt;p&gt;Of course, touchscreen phones make great computing devices, which makes their inadequacy as phones irrelevant.</text></item><item><author>asimuvPR</author><text>I have a friend who used the starTac until AT&amp;amp;T forced him into something else. He fought for months trying to keep his old phone working. He moved to an iPhone but says it doesn&amp;#x27;t compare.</text></item><item><author>anexprogrammer</author><text>&amp;quot;Consider the MicroTAC, one of Motorola’s first cell phones. It did not sell well.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It was nothing to do with the MicroTAC being £3,000?  No, it was the direction of the flip.  Right.&lt;p&gt;The later MicroTACs with LCD sold loads.  At the time, most people seemed to &lt;i&gt;prefer&lt;/i&gt; them to the early StarTAC.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anexprogrammer</author><text>Same.  I used to be able to text without ever looking at the screen&lt;p&gt;I seem to have passed peak-smartphone, I check it much less often, and phone more.  I&amp;#x27;ve been tempted a few times by the flip-smartphones that exist in the Far East - I wish they were available here so I could trial one in a store.  Don&amp;#x27;t want to buy until I decide if they&amp;#x27;re best of both worlds, or worst...</text></comment>
<story><title>Future Screens Are Mostly Blue</title><url>http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/future-screens-are-mostly-blue/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GFischer</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s been several years since I moved to a touchscreen phone, and I still hate them for the &amp;quot;making calls and answering&amp;quot; workflow - I used to be able to make calls and answer without having to physically look at the phone - the StarTac&amp;#x27;s flick to open would be a good example of that.&lt;p&gt;Of course, touchscreen phones make great computing devices, which makes their inadequacy as phones irrelevant.</text></item><item><author>asimuvPR</author><text>I have a friend who used the starTac until AT&amp;amp;T forced him into something else. He fought for months trying to keep his old phone working. He moved to an iPhone but says it doesn&amp;#x27;t compare.</text></item><item><author>anexprogrammer</author><text>&amp;quot;Consider the MicroTAC, one of Motorola’s first cell phones. It did not sell well.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It was nothing to do with the MicroTAC being £3,000?  No, it was the direction of the flip.  Right.&lt;p&gt;The later MicroTACs with LCD sold loads.  At the time, most people seemed to &lt;i&gt;prefer&lt;/i&gt; them to the early StarTAC.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asimuvPR</author><text>Four or five years ago I used a cheap-o flip phone and loved it. Been thinking about going back to it but don&amp;#x27;t want to lose the ability to take really nice pictures at any moment. :&amp;#x2F;</text></comment>