Man that's a cool phone

Slim, attractive, easy to use. The coolest phone I own. That's my iPhone obviously? Well, yes, at the moment it is but I was actually thinking of another phone. One that popped into my head while listening to various tech podcasters fighting over which phone was better, Blackberry, iPhone or G1. My old Ericsson T28.



I've always had a soft spot for Ericssons design style from way way back and the T28 perhaps represents the pinnacle of that. It was super small and super slim. The flip out microphone and cover worked in a satisfying chunky manner and clicked back with a quality noise. Battery life was excellent too. I always felt great using that phone. OK, so like all Ericssons the actual call quality was poor, something that all ericsson phones suffered from until Sony came along.

But still, I recon that I could actually survive using that phone today. Certainly it wasn't 3G but it would still work on the current network. And I'm sure it would provoke as much comment as my Phone, not that that's a real driver. The T28 came from an earlier cleaner mobile world, one less cluttered by MMS, video mobile e-mail. A world that I in some way miss.