This is a proper cordless phone:
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Notice how the shape is designed intelligently, probably by people who actually use phones.
Here's what they all look like now:
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Notice anything? It's sleek, smooth, hip, shiny, stylish...and has a shape that's completely fucking impractical.
"But it works great for cell phones and smartphones!"
Cell phones need to fit into anyone's pocket. Smartphones are primarily handheld computers. The flat boxy design that's so popular is a deliberate compromise to facilitate those purposes. None of those issues apply to cordless phones which use a receiver and don't run applications. Unfortunately, modern designers are too brain-damaged to comprehend this, and as a result, the flat non-ergonomic style is about all that's available.
"Well, yea, that's the only kind people buy!"
Of course that's the only kind people buy, dumbfuck: That's the only kind people can buy!
1 comment for "Who Do I Have to Blow to Get a Cordless Phone That's Not Designed By a Retard?"
I have one of those curved white cordless phones like your top picture... now if only we had a phone line! We have a Magic Jack, but we don't use the damn thing because its built-in VOIP software takes something like 5 minutes to load, uses like 500 MB of RAM and often can't seem to receive calls anyway.