Someone else drew a phone shaped like a water bottle, explaining that it could store precious drinking water and also float on the monsoon waters.
My mother needed my brother to install the new phone (shaped like a large Dixieland-style Mickey Mouse playing a banjo) in case the far-away friends who had sent it suddenly decided to visit.
This phone shaped like a candy bar has a sliding keyboard, 2.8-inch touchscreen and a processor running at about 400 megahertz — the speed of many PCs just a few years ago.
No doubt some company already has a patent for a trapezoidal phone shape.
And yes, some people really do want a phone shaped like a banana.
Samsung, LG, Kyocera and others have broken their picks on this double form factor. Granted, many of these were using a form of a Sidekick with a phone shape with a cover screen on the outside, then opening up like a clam shell to reveal a tiny keyboard and second screen.
Here you can buy everything from mock Roman pillars to "development cream for the intimate parts of man", tablet computers to mobile phones shaped like handguns.
Taking the global cell phone industry as an example, children are both one of the largest growing purchasers of cell phones, shaping the emerging social media design of many cell phone features, while also being exploited in the mining of coltan (in countries such as the Eastern DRC), a key ingredient in mobile phone technology.
What Malkovich did was the dreaded finger phone configuration - the L shape with the thumb and little finger.
Overall, though, Apple seems to have put its focus on the important things you want in an app phone: size, shape, materials, sound quality, camera quality and speed (both operational and Internet data), and that's good.
