You have several more reasons to buy phones today rather than just fulfil your needs to stay in touch with people. Phones these days, offer you more than attending and receiving calls. They have become custom-designed. The trend now seems to have drifted toward an attempt to fit in as many functionality features as possible, not to forget the aesthetics of design. They have invariably, by all means and purpose, transformed into fashionable devices.
For teenagers and old folks alike, phones have transformed into a must-have, easily affordable glamour items. The race today is: which person has the best-looking piece. The varieties of phones is on the rise. With technologically advanced configurations, they can be a geek's delight or an aesthete's joy.
Counted among one the common fashion accessories, they are also multi-tasking devices. They have many features incorporated as 'call-on-hold', voice-messages, voice call recording and monitoring, call waiting option, call transfer options, high memory for large data storage and much more. These days, phones are also coming combined with all the modern technology like internet, Wi-Fi etc. In a way, phones are on the way to become full-fledged multi-tasking gadgets.
There was a category of phones, we would identify as Business phones. These phones were more concerned with the functionality features they had to offer than exquisite aesthetic designs. Times have changed. Even business phones aimed at the hardcore business-class professionals seem to have caught on the bandwagon of fashion. Designs today are as exotic as imagination can take them. For many phones, looks and their ease of handling are still their unique selling proposition.
The age of smart phones is in. Smartness that you can recognize not only the way they look, but also the way they perform: beauty with brains, so to say. Consumers cannot be blamed for the temptation of such gadgets that can put them in a different world altogether. This is the power of design, nowhere as detectable as in the creeping trend of futurism in such a once-upon-a-time simple things as mere phones.
You may underestimate their power on your own risk-of getting left behind, and outdated.
