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.
虽然iPhone4的天线问题已经被批得体无完肤,但下文的这5款手机仍然验证了一个道理:好的手机设计是不可多得的。
短短4周,苹果和AT&T'的服务器就被疯狂的苹果粉丝弄瘫痪了,iPhone的热销大大超出分析家们的预料,也引起了争议。很快,苹果的声誉就因天线问题而垂直下降。
但当批评人士和使用者们对“天线门”唠唠叨叨,捶胸顿足的没完时,我们其实忘记了对于手机设计,到底应该关注那些地方。坦率地说,还有更糟的呢。多年来,制造商已经发布了很多有致命缺陷、随意设计的手机。苹果最新的这款智能手机设计显得过于理想化了。
Here are five of the most egregious offenders.
下面是最烂的5快款手机设计。