Calvin wrote:

I suppose there's maybe some others like me on the board but I've still never gotten a smartphone, I've had a Serene since 2005, the second B&O thing I ever bought new from the shop (as compared to eBay - I was still a student after all). I should add that I do have an iPod so it's not as if I don't already have music and videos on the go

Anyway, the Serene is finally starting to go a bit and I really amn't enthused by anything out their on the phone scene. Almost everything out there is a glass rectangle with questionable battery life. In all honesty, one of the main reasons I never gotten a smart phone is that the Serene battery lasts days although I'd be lying if I didn't say that I like the talking point nature of bringing out a B&O designed flip phone.

Is there anything anyone can recommend that actually has some cool design going for it? I came across the Runcible phone (Google it) but it's more of a hotspot device, you need a bluetooth headset to use it as a phone and that seems like far too much hassle for a day to day thing. I'd love to have a new phone where you bring it out at a bar and someone goes "hey cool, what is that?"

I too use a serene everyday, it's pretty battered and lost lots of pixels but it still draws admiring glances

i just don't want to join the mindless masses glued to their phones who don't seem to realise life is out there not in a little glass box 

I think, at least in the US, you can still get Motorola Razr's, and in Japan such flip phones are still popular.

bidstonhall wrote:

I too use a serene everyday, it's pretty battered and lost lots of pixels but it still draws admiring glances

i just don't want to join the mindless masses glued to their phones who don't seem to realise life is out there not in a little glass box

Wow, that Punkt thing is about what I was looking for. It's got crazy long battery life and it's a solid nice piece of manuafacturing/design. Nice work!