I was mostly kidding in that there is always that niche language that people push. I used to work with a bunch of forth people and it just sticks with me how passionate they were about it.
I bought one of those. It cost me four pounds, brand new, and came with a built-in mp3 of instructions shouted at you very loudly in an Indian accent. It was great.
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Had one too. Was my first mobile phone. I was forced to buy one for work. Bought the cheapest one available out of spite. Best buy of the decade.
Missed that topic. 
Excuse me.
But indeed, the F3 has its flaws. And never realized they got expensive. Mmzz…
What kind of screen should your design have?
Capacitive e-ink would be nice, but in any case a touchscreen covering the whole thing. Technically it would be no different from a smartphone, it would just have a user interface designed for weirdos.
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Oh, I can think of some. Funny idea to get your head running. 
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Being as most UIs appear to be designed by weirdos, that might be a refreshing change.
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over a year later it’s still the benchmark for minimalist phones? seems to be a sector without much growth potential and disruptive technologies
I still think the style is similar to Manufactum, especially the tone of the texts. Manufactum specialises in overpriced good old thing, while Punkt does this for technological minimalism - but they use the same ideas and approaches
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I understand. After all, it’s not religion. It’s much more important than that
Another horribly overpriced hipster toy.
I’m surprised they don’t claim it is ideal for poor third world countries or something. That always seems trendy when someone releases some ridiculously expensive “solution” to some problem like a $500 LED light and generator for places where the “big man” in the village doesn’t make $500 a year let alone the general run of villagers.
I’ve got a ten (fifteen? I’ve lost track) Motorola Razr V3 flip phone that still works as well as when I bought it (for a lot less money than this bit of kit)
Weights next to nothing, folds up so the screen is self-protected, fits into my trouser pocket with no hassles and holds a charge (in the original battery) nearly forever.
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Manufactum, good example indeed. Never bought some there, but very enjoyable to browse through there (paper) catalog.
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oh yes, the descriptions are hilarious. a bucket for 21 EUR? sure, a steal! after all the “plastic quality” is like “50 years ago” and has a manufacturing process “4 times longer than today”, done in Switzerland!
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FYI there is a sidebar benefit to carriyng a dumb-burner phone. You have a nice wiped “brick” smartphone that you can let CBP peruse to their hearts content that has zero mineable data on it and a dumbphone that you can use to call your ride and get the local/backup SIM delivered to you so you can go about restoring your account from the cloud
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What do you think of this?
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is the receiver stable enought to beat anyone to death with it?
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After my father-in-law struggled to use the BlackBerry his job gave him I jokingly suggested that RIM needed to come out with the Exec-u-Berry. It would look like a blackberry but instead of the normal keyboard it would have one big button that would call his secretary. He’d be able to ask her for what he wanted and she could either pull it up on his screen or dial a call and connect him when it was answered.
Naturally he wanted to know if this was a real thing and I had to break it to him gently that no, in fact I was just making fun of him.
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Vertu phones used to come with a concierge button, didn’t they?
(still do?)
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HOW MUCH?!!!11ONE (Body seems unclear. Is it a complete sentence?)
But Vertu Concierge doesn’t sound nearly as silly as the Exec-U-Berry.
I suspect Dad’s secretary would have killed the both of us if we’d tried to get her to go along with that scheme.
Besides, he’s retired now and we’ve switched him to an iPhone that he doesn’t know how to use. I use an Android phone and make my daughter provide him tech support.
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