(4 votes, average: 9.5 out of 10)
Loading ...Why Get Smart’s shoe phone is better than Apple’s iPhone
Among the many pleasures of the movie adaptation of TV’s Get Smart is the moment when Steve Carrell’s Maxwell Smart takes a trip to the CONTROL Museum and finds the shoe phone: a portable communications device way ahead of its time.
In honour of the movie and YouTube’s recent Shoe Phones Across America contest, we salute a machine that trumps Apple’s over-hyped consumer product on so many levels:
1. Very little chance of losing the device, unless you visit someone with really nice carpet.
2. No need for an over-inflated data plan from Rogers.
3. Encourages users to sit while speaking.
4. Dress-up style more appropriate for corporate settings.
5. For once it’s the device, not the customer, that gets stepped on.
July 1st, 2008 at 12:41 am
6. The data plan price won’t knock your socks off.
November 20th, 2008 at 9:56 am
All true, but how would users cope without their iBeer?
November 26th, 2008 at 11:14 am
One problem though - you have to deal with those who do not change socks - it could be real problem indoors - outdoors seems to be OK.
December 3rd, 2008 at 7:07 am
IT’s the phone that won’t leave you totally bare footed.