The T3’s 01 Phone: Faking it for the cause

Posted on 16 September 2008 by Budi Putra




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Remember a “mysterious” 32 GB cell phone: the 01 Phone which was discovered by T3 magazine that I wrote three weeks ago? Now, the countdown on its website, has over. So what? Nothing. While admitting that the dream phone is totally a fake because it’s created using 3D rendering, the T3 team need you to support their campaign. So, it’s just a matter of campaign (and marketing for that magazine?).


What campaign? “The campaign for the pursuit of gadget excellence,” as they wrote on the website. They even asked you to sign up to support their petition to the industry’s big boys: Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, BlackBerry, Apple and the rest. The reason?

For far too long we’ve been at the mercy of the mobile industry dictating crawling upgrades and minor revamps. The iPhone 3G, is, of course, a worthy stab at creating the perfect mobile phone, however 3G internet should have been top of the original’s feature list.

Super-slick emailing not seen since the BlackBerry Bold; perfect music-playback, as packed in Sony Ericsson’s W980 plus the Nokia N82’s 5.0-megapixel all inspired us to create the 01 Phone. Of course, we used a heck of a lot of artistic license. The laser keyboard, for instance, and the 32GB of internal storage. Our point is, however, is that all this technology is available now, so why hasn’t something akin to the 01 Phone actually been created by a manufacture?

Sound interesting, but it’s totally weird. How come all mobile users need similar features and specifications in one phone? And each manufacture has each own need and vision, too. They made their handset based-on a certain of market researches, user behavior studies, and so on.




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2 Comments For This Post

  1. christexaport says:

    This doesn’t surprise me at all. The tech and gadget market is becoming more mainstream, and mass appeal devices are seeing growth. However, superdevices favored by the techie userbase are severely lacking.

    The 01 phone is nice, but merely an imaginary device. The N-XT concept I’ve designed is based on actual component dimensions. Its a tangible design ready to be manufactured in a short period. Its a real device for right now. Hopefully T3 and its readers will support my device as a true honorary 01 device, and ask OEM’s to build my design instead.

  2. Vickey Mcintosh says:

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