Not only are they a way for people to sidestep China's cumbersome terrestrial phone network, they are the status symbol of choice for a generation of Chinese.
But Hollande's predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, found the Teorem phone cumbersome, and refused to use it because it took 30 seconds to dial a connection, which "took too long for him", according to an aide.
The corners are a bit "sharp" but not at all uncomfortable, and the purposeless extra hardware along the bottom doesn't make the phone cumbersome at all.
Twitter is certainly usable via SMS on a mobile device, but typing messages on a phone is cumbersome.
And so, it can be cumbersome to remove your phone case every time you want to use the camera lenses.
Sending videos between phones is cumbersome.
A startup called Rubix wants to make charging phones less cumbersome with AUGMENT, a set with a charging module that snaps securely onto a matching iPhone case without a cable.
It certainly makes the phone heavier, more cumbersome and less "compelling'.
"Delivering this through a phone can feel cumbersome and it slows the pace and focus of play.
The result is a 800 percent increase in the cost of a call, to more than 89 cents a minute, in a phone system so cumbersome that detainees say it impedes their ability to contest deportation or contact relatives.
