Cell Phone Fashion: Personalizing Mass Production �Individuality: advanced
features, precision engineering and couture style in a choice of elegant colors
-- as individual as you are�. This is the blurb for the new Motorola Razr, one
of the new breeds of mobile phone flying off the shelves. Where mobile were once
marketed as an high-tech device, a tool packed with ingenious features, the new
trend is for fashion phones. The major handset manufacturers are now offering
seasonal collections, joint-venturing with well known fashion designers, and
emphasizing aesthetic features when marketing their products. Indeed, some
companies are scaling back the technical, yet utilitarian features, offering
simpler but sleeker phones; form over function post by haiyan113. Somewhere
along the evolutionary path of the cell phone, the device has reached the point
where it is no longer considered a gadget, available only to the privileged few
with the money and/or technical savoir faire, but
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