Four short weeks since it crashed Apple and AT&T's servers, the iPhone 4 has broken records, surpassed analyst expectations and invoked the kind of ire and controversy usually reserved for political elections. Just as quickly, Apple's once-sterling reputation for cutting-edge design became a potential liability.
But as critics and users fussed over "antennagate," beating their chests over fickle steel-band antennae, many of us were quick to forget that where cell phone flaws are concerned, there are, quite frankly, worse things out there. Way worse, in fact. Over the years, manufacturers have released phones so irrefutably flawed, so haphazardly designed, that Apple's latest smart phone entry appears downright ideal.
雖然iPhone4的天線問題已經被批得體無完膚,但下文的這5款手機仍然驗證了一個道理:好的手機設計是不可多得的。
短短4周,蘋果和AT&T'的服務器就被瘋狂的蘋果粉絲弄癱瘓了,iPhone的熱銷大大超出分析家們的預料,也引起了爭議。很快,蘋果的聲譽就因天線問題而垂直下降。
但當批評人士和使用者們對“天線門”嘮嘮叨叨,捶胸頓足的沒完時,我們其實忘記了對于手機設計,到底應該關注那些地方。坦率地說,還有更糟的呢。多年來,制造商已經發布了很多有致命缺陷、隨意設計的手機。蘋果最新的這款智能手機設計顯得過于理想化了。
Here are five of the most egregious offenders.
下面是最爛的5快款手機設計。