Re: Strange Parts - How I Made an Android Phone
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 11:26 pm
Yeah, for real, right? 
This is why I call modern smartphones depression rectangles. They literally look like that. A lot of popular phones got third-party mods, not just one brand or model: all sorts of Motorolas, Nokias, Blackberrys. You could add lights to you antennae and have them flash certain colours if you were getting a call (e.g. red and blue like a police car if your dad was calling you, lmao), add backlighting to your keypad (think fancy gamer keyboards), basically swap out your whole shell for something completely different. People were making some really frutiger aero designs, even before that style became the vogue in the early 2000s. This one is a tricked out Motorola StarTAC from the ’90s! You’d be surprised at the variety of manufacturers getting into this. One of my favourite mods actually came from a snowmobile accessory company.
I guess there’s technically nothing stopping someone from making their own Samsung case—they don’t use like ten different screws like Apple does, but people are encouraged to buy new phones so often that they don’t think about modifying anything but an external case. ...So, you end up with a depression rectangle in red with no wondrous “architectural” or sculptural elements.
This is why I call modern smartphones depression rectangles. They literally look like that. A lot of popular phones got third-party mods, not just one brand or model: all sorts of Motorolas, Nokias, Blackberrys. You could add lights to you antennae and have them flash certain colours if you were getting a call (e.g. red and blue like a police car if your dad was calling you, lmao), add backlighting to your keypad (think fancy gamer keyboards), basically swap out your whole shell for something completely different. People were making some really frutiger aero designs, even before that style became the vogue in the early 2000s. This one is a tricked out Motorola StarTAC from the ’90s! You’d be surprised at the variety of manufacturers getting into this. One of my favourite mods actually came from a snowmobile accessory company.I guess there’s technically nothing stopping someone from making their own Samsung case—they don’t use like ten different screws like Apple does, but people are encouraged to buy new phones so often that they don’t think about modifying anything but an external case. ...So, you end up with a depression rectangle in red with no wondrous “architectural” or sculptural elements.